by John Addison | Jan 31, 2018 | Economy, Society
From Mount Washington, I overlooked the beautiful city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, framed by a confluence of rivers. In 1760, the coal industry was born here. Coal enabled Pittsburgh to lead the nation in steel manufacturing and that in turn led to Pittsburgh...
by Jonathan Fink | Jan 30, 2018 | Governance, Technology
A central premise of Meeting of the Minds is that the flexibility, practicality, and focus of municipal governments make them ideal technological and social innovators. But can the ingenuity of U.S. cities be sufficiently amplified to effectively keep up with the pace...
by Alice Brown | Jan 29, 2018 | CommonWealth Series, Mobility, Society
Transportation and mobility matters to everyone who commutes or travels or runs errands on a daily basis, and these everyday trips create a sense that we are all experts on transportation. For creative problem solvers, every traffic jam, transit delay, confusing...
by Walker Wells, Principal at Raimi + Associates and Lecturer at UCLA, and Kimberley Vermeer, President and Founder Urban Habitat Initiatives. | Jan 25, 2018 | Environment, Society
Cities are rapidly becoming the human species’ preferred habitat, with projections showing that over 80 percent of the developed world population will be urban dwellers by 2050. This trend makes cities the earth’s fastest growing ecosystem – a human made and...
by Monica Tibbits-Nutt | Jan 23, 2018 | CommonWealth Series, Governance, Mobility
All Planning is Personal Urban planning, rural planning, transportation planning: all of it is personal. This is something that practicing planners (and policymakers of all kinds) need to understand. The work we do influences where people can live, influences where...
by Adam Chase | Jan 22, 2018 | Mobility, Technology
For those of us working on the future of vehicles and energy, this is a fascinating time. Cities are at the root of clean vehicle adoption, and city mayors can have more near term influence over automotive product offerings than national and international regulators....
by Sandra Phillips | Jan 18, 2018 | Mobility, Society
We are at a pivotal moment in the evolution of car sharing. Cities around the world are integrating car sharing into people’s day-to-day lives. In fact, Morgan Stanley predicts that shared cars could account for 26 percent of global miles traveled by 2030, up from...
by Christina Olsen | Jan 15, 2018 | Global Mobility Research, Mobility, Society
This interview series is made possible by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. Each month we feature a leading thinker from VREF’s Future Urban Transport program. Meeting of the Minds talked with Dr. Dario Hidalgo about the evolution of BRT and what makes...
by Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM | Jan 11, 2018 | Society, Technology
The following are my highly unreliable, wet-finger-in-the-air guesses for what might happen in the smart cities arena, for better and worse, in 2018. As a general prediction, while there is no single rationale for a smart city, certain themes such as efficiency and...
by John Addison | Jan 10, 2018 | Infrastructure, Resources
In my previous article, I detailed the adoption of energy efficiency and solar in our nation’s 125,000 schools. Now, intelligent storage systems are bringing further savings and increasing the value of solar. In the past, most clean energy efforts were killed by lack...
by John Eichberger | Jan 9, 2018 | Mobility, Society
The mobility system of the United States, and of many other markets within the developed world, is going through a period of significant change, but whether we should prepare for a revolution or evolution remains a point of debate. The shots of innovation are being...
by John Addison | Jan 4, 2018 | Infrastructure, Resources
There are 125,000 schools in the U.S., pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12), spending $8 billion annually on energy, more than on computers and textbooks combined. Schools are investing in energy efficiency and solar, often creating a better learning...
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