by Wendy Landman, Senior Policy Advisor, WalkBoston | Jan 27, 2020 | Infrastructure, Society
Planners, designers, environmental activists, and the aging-in-community are all seeking ways to make our communities work better for our aging population. In this era of high tech solutions, there is a simple, low-cost tool at hand: install more benches! Whether...
by Mark Hough, University Landscape Architect, Duke University | Jan 21, 2020 | Environment, Infrastructure
Many higher education campuses in the U.S. operate like small or medium-sized cities. They are often significant landowners with high tech utility infrastructure systems, and student and workforce populations numbering in the tens of thousands. These academic...
by Anders Lisdorf | Jan 21, 2020 | Smart Cities
Much attention has been given to the algorithmic salvation of Artificial Intelligence and how it will transform our world and how we live. Nowhere is the potential more evident than in our cities, where AI potentially impacts life in multiple ways: autonomous...
by Karabi Acharya, ScD, Director at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Tim Ng, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of New Zealand and its chief economic adviser. | Jan 14, 2020 | The Global Water Equity Blog Series
What is the role of rivers and nature in our society? Are they forces to be tamed? Are they resources to be owned and distributed? Or are they part of the tapestry of life, an interconnected fabric? What is the value of rivers and nature in society? Is their value...
by Dan Burden, Director of Innovation and Inspiration at Blue Zones | Jan 13, 2020 | Mobility
On average in 2017, about .5% of people biked to work in US cities, and only 2.9% walked to work. If cities were built for people (most US cities are not), people could walk, ride bicycles or use transit for most trips, boosting their health and lowering their costs...
by Katie Porter, Executive Engineer at Brown and Caldwell | Jan 7, 2020 | The Global Water Equity Blog Series
Nearly a million people in California receive low quality drinking water from underperforming water systems, which are challenged by drought, overdrafting, and emerging contaminants. Root causes of poor water quality can include inadequate treatment technology,...
by Anne Mellano, Founder of Bestmile | Jan 6, 2020 | Mobility, Technology
With the world rapidly urbanizing, and cities already choking on smog and facing nightmarish traffic caused by autos, what transportation options will get people into, out of, and around the world’s growing metros? Ride Sharing’s Impact on Cities Shared mobility...
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