by Olga Stella | Jan 31, 2019 | Governance, Society
An invisible force – design – shapes the answers to fundamental questions about society, debated every day: Who gets to benefit from economic growth? Who gets to participate in society? Who gets to feel welcome, and where? Through formal and informal...
by Mark McElroy | Jan 30, 2019 | Governance, Society
Municipalities, like all other human social systems (i.e., families, organizations, nations, etc.) are heavily dependent upon their ability to learn and adapt in order to survive. And this, in turn, means they must be capable of understanding their own impacts in the...
by Blair Ruble and William Chernicoff | Jan 29, 2019 | Governance, Mobility
Too often, those entrusted with the design and execution of urban public policy in areas such as transportation conceive it as an engineering problem with one ideal solution. The recent study completed by Lubna Anantakarishnan and Antonia-Sophie Gramsamer, graduate...
by Kate O'Brien, Senior Writer for Meeting of the Minds | Jan 28, 2019 | Global Mobility Research
This month Meeting of the Minds’ Senior Writer Kate O’Brien sat down for a phone conversation with Professor Genevieve Giuliano, PhD, who is the Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government at University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of...
by Eric Singer and Andrej Micovic | Jan 24, 2019 | Governance, Mobility
Planning a mass-transit system almost necessarily requires one difficult, politically charged decision after another. Route selection may be the most difficult and visible of them all. Mass transit is expensive and public resources are limited; a dichotomy that...
by Thaddeus Miller and Devon McAslan | Jan 23, 2019 | Mobility, Technology
On December 5, 2018, Waymo launched ‘Waymo One’, the first commercial ride-share service utilizing self-driving cars in the US. This long-awaited service fulfills the company’s self-imposed deadline to start a commercial ride-share service by the end of 2018. Waymo,...
by Lykke Leonardsen | Jan 21, 2019 | Governance, Infrastructure
Copenhagen started its work with climate change adaptation in 2008. The first step was the preparation of the climate change adaptation plan that was published in 2010 and approved by City Council in 2011. The adaptation plan looks at possible impacts on the city from...
by Edward Krafcik, Ellory Monks and Eyal Feder-Levy | Jan 17, 2019 | Governance, Society, Technology
Smart City PredictionsFor 2019 Published January 17, 2019 While 2018 was filled with a number of successful smart city deployments, it also revealed significant challenges that will only intensify in years to come. The most pressing challenge to be addressed...
by Dennis Gakunga | Jan 16, 2019 | Governance, Society
After Chula Vista voters approved a sales tax increase in 2016 to pay for a large backlog of deferred maintenance, the proverbial telephones at City Hall started ringing off the hook. Vendors were offering all kinds of smart streetlights, smart irrigation controllers,...
by Karim Elgendy | Jan 14, 2019 | Mobility, Technology
Most of us have not seen an autonomous car, let alone been in one. Yet autonomous vehicles have the potential to define a new era, as private cars did a century ago. We have heard plenty about their technologies, safety standards, and legal and ethical challenges....
by John Addison | Jan 10, 2019 | Governance, Resources
Leaders of the world convened in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in October 2018. While there, they witnessed a state confronting the challenges of resilience and sustainability. Wildfires have raged in California every month for the past...
by Frank Martz, Ed Torres, and Jo Ann Jackson | Jan 9, 2019 | Infrastructure, Resources
The future of sustainable water reuse starts with progressive action today. The City of Altamonte Springs, Florida proactively created pureALTA to address our community’s future water needs and diversify the City’s water portfolio. pureALTA received a 2018...
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