by Kyle Pickett | May 31, 2018 | Resources, Society
All too frequently, news of water scarcity, contamination and overstressed infrastructure makes global headlines. Cape Town South Africa, with a population of nearly 4 million, is navigating a water scarcity crisis and it is estimated that they’ll run out of their...
by John Addison | May 30, 2018 | Society
I have traveled to Chicago over 40 times for business and family. I’ve enjoyed concerts in Millennium Park on warm summer evenings and dressed for the Antarctic on winter nights when the wind chill was minus 70. Chicago is one of our Top 10 Walkable Cities. With 2.7...
by Josh Lieberman and Simon Chester | May 29, 2018 | Governance, Technology
Considering the rapid, even relentless, pace of innovation and advances in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) of cities, how can cities – especially those with restricted budgets – plan for, maintain, and reap the desired benefits now...
by Matt Salisbury | May 24, 2018 | Governance, Technology
Over the past six weeks I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with over twenty cities across the United States and Australia. Whether I was speaking with a small rural council or a large metropolitan city, the challenge of citizen engagement came up in almost every...
by Eric Letsinger | May 22, 2018 | Economy, Society
As cities face funding shortages for critical resilience and infrastructure projects, they are looking to new sources of capital—including impact investors. From large multinational banks to traditional institutional asset owners, to foundations and family offices,...
by Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen | May 21, 2018 | Mobility
We often get asked questions from urban planners, policymakers, and real estate professionals asking how they should prepare for the future of mobility, today. Some are architects and developers wanting to know how their buildings and planned communities should be...
by Lisa Salsberg | May 17, 2018 | Smart Cities
Transportation plans are typically developed by forecasting out current trends to later years. Planners focus on how to meet the needs of a fixed outlook. But given the scale change occurring within the transportation system – such as new mobility services and...
by Michael W-P Fortunato, Ph.D. and Bruce Balfour, Ph.D. | May 16, 2018 | Economy, Society
Today, many cities fully embrace redevelopment as a strategy to revitalize whole districts, as we are witnessing in old manufacturing centers like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Even smaller cities like Lawrence, Massachusetts and Eau Claire, Wisconsin are...
by Tiffany Manuel | May 14, 2018 | Economy, Society
How urban innovators and social entrepreneurs define and measure progress has profound implications for how those committed to improving their communities – businesses, governments, nonprofits, and residents – allocate resources. Urban innovators and social...
by John Addison | May 10, 2018 | Governance, Society
Tech jobs have driven a boom in the Bay Area, home to 7.7 million people and almost 4 million jobs. The employees of the more than five thousand tech firms like Google, Facebook, Uber, AirBnB, Intel and Apple spend more money on everything, increasing jobs in...
by Catherine Nagel and Thatcher Bailey | May 9, 2018 | Urban Parks
Parks and recreation drive real solutions to the big challenges facing American cities. They are powerful agents helping communities address financial stability, environmental threats, and social isolation, just to name a few. In that regard, city parks have grown...
by Kip Eideberg | May 7, 2018 | Infrastructure, Society
It doesn’t take a political scientist to take note of the profound divide on many policy issues between residents of rural communities across America and city-dwellers across the country. While the 2016 election might have highlighted the apparent widening gap between...
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