by Dr. Leo T. Kenny | Nov 29, 2017 | Resources, Smart Cities
In December 2015, I was invited to give a presentation at a sensor conference, where the theme centered on how innovative technologies could exponentially enable a state of global abundance, as described by Peter Diamindis in his book by that name. The premise is that...
by Alex Demosthenes | Nov 27, 2017 | Environment, Governance
I recently spoke with a former colleague and air quality specialist about efforts to secure financing to improve air quality in his city. From my own experience I’m familiar with policy efforts to integrate environmental considerations at the city level, but I was...
by Garrett Brinker | Nov 21, 2017 | Economy, Governance, Smart Cities
We’re living in tight times. Cities across the country are dealing with strapped budgets, fiscal uncertainty, and a lack of political will to raise taxes to fund capital projects. Despite this, cities are becoming thriving hubs for innovation, entrepreneurship, and...
by Josef Goodman | Nov 20, 2017 | Economy, Infrastructure
Keep the Builders Accountable and Let them Build For nearly five decades, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area has stood out as a bleak history lesson on the failings of urban planning. In 1967, the City of New York demolished the homes of more than 1,800 low-income...
by Sarah Singleton | Nov 14, 2017 | Environment, Infrastructure, Resources
Hurricane Maria created immense devastation in Puerto Rico, leaving the island and its people facing a long recovery process. Crucially, its electric grid suffered such widespread damage that, a month after the storm, 75 percent of the island remains without...
by Brian Zimmerman | Nov 13, 2017 | Environment, Infrastructure, Urban Parks
100 years ago, a young city engineer, William Stinchcomb, envisioned “an outer system of parks and boulevards” to combat the ever-expanding city of Cleveland that was filling with industry. His vision called for “… the valleys of Rocky River in...
by Jennifer Thomas | Nov 9, 2017 | Economy, Infrastructure, Resources
In the last week of October, from the 23rd to the 25th, over 420 people descended on the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland to attend Meeting of the Minds. For their 11th annual summit, Meeting of the Minds came to the Midwest from San Francisco after a...
by Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM | Nov 8, 2017 | Technology
One of the earliest manifestations of the power of the Internet of Things (IOT) and analytics to upend established business models has been its role in the smart grid transformation now taking place in the energy sector. This transformation perhaps suggests how other...
by Santiago Giraldo | Nov 7, 2017 | Technology
Businesses used to only interact with their clients face-to-face, where they could get to know what their buyers like and what their company doesn’t offer that they’d like to have. But now, with the boom of e-commerce — especially on mobile devices — this question has...
by Tony Dutzik | Nov 6, 2017 | Governance, Mobility
America’s dependence on cars – and the congestion and pollution it causes in our cities – is reinforced by a series of rules, practices and norms that make driving relatively easy and cheap and other options comparatively difficult and expensive. Some of these drivers...
by Colin Harrison | Nov 2, 2017 | Society, Technology
Try this for size: imagine a city with a population of ten million people that has widely deployed renewable energy sources, that has implemented micro-markets for consumer-produced energy, and let’s say that these micro-markets are cleared every ten or fifteen...
by Lucas Joppa | Nov 1, 2017 | Resources, Technology
The world is changing swiftly, and nowhere are those changes felt more acutely than in our cities. Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a trend only expected to accelerate in the coming decades. The rapid growth of urban populations is...
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