by Andreas Kuehn and Abagail Lawson | Aug 28, 2019 | Governance, Technology
As the conventional wisdom goes, connecting more things to the Internet expands the cyber attack surface. For cities that have intentionally or even unknowingly become “smart” by networking critical infrastructure and digitizing services across a city’s domains, smart...
by Paul Chinowsky | Aug 26, 2019 | Infrastructure, Society
Creating climate resiliency is not the same as disaster or emergency planning. The chronic impacts of climate change will dwarf the impact of single hazard events. These two statements represent the underlying challenge for cities and communities to achieve climate...
by Kate O'Brien, Senior Writer for Meeting of the Minds | Aug 21, 2019 | Behavior Change Blog Series
In East Palo Alto, California, a multi-faceted, coalition-driven movement is afoot to assure wider access to affordable housing. This effort, informed by behavioral economics, is helping local homeowners understand and navigate the municipal permitting process for...
by Sharon Avery | Aug 19, 2019 | Economy, Society
Less than three years into my role leading one of Canada’s largest of its 191 community foundations, I read the book “Decolonizing Wealth” by Edgar Villanueva. In the opening chapter, Villanueva sets the stage for an uncomfortable conversation about the state of...
by Kate O'Brien, Senior Writer for Meeting of the Minds | Aug 14, 2019 | Global Mobility Research
This month Meeting of the Minds’ Senior Writer Kate O’Brien sat down for a conversation with Heather Allen, an international expert on sustainable transport and gender. Early on in her career, Heather worked for the Secretariat of UITP (International Association of...
by Lynn Heller | Aug 12, 2019 | Economy, Resources
Across the country, the economic benefits of residential solar power have for the most part been available only to those who own their own homes and can afford the upfront costs of rooftop solar. 38% of households in the City of Baltimore qualify as low-income, 60% of...
by Ben Bartlett and Matt Napoli | Aug 8, 2019 | Economy, Governance
The “community development” space is filled with people meaning well but doing harm. For decades, well thought out programs, designed by compassionate great minds have destroyed the very communities to be “developed.” As capital flows into underserved areas and those...
by Wendell Cox, Principal, Demographia | Aug 6, 2019 | Society
A tourist or even a demographer may sit at a café near the Louvre and imagine that the architecture and development of Paris looks the same, all the way to the urban fringe. Yet Paris is much more than the city proper (“Ville de Paris”). It is surrounded by the...
by John Cumbers | Aug 5, 2019 | Economy, Resources
Sustainability is in vogue, with businesses and cities jostling to improve their public image and produce goods and services using renewable sources. Yet cities exponentially swell and carbon emissions continue to increase. Global CO2 emissions rise nearly every year...
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