by Dr. Ann McAfee, FCIP, MLAI, Retired Co-Director of Planning at City of Vancouver | Jul 28, 2020 | Economy, Governance, Society
This paper describes the immediate and possible future impacts of COVID-19 on planning in the Greater Vancouver area. The first part introduces three initiatives, launched in 2019, to refresh city and regional plans. The second part identifies new challenges for plans...
by Anne Mellano, Founder of Bestmile | Jul 27, 2020 | Mobility, Technology
Just a few months ago, cities around the world were grappling with traffic and transit congestion that appeared to be out of control. New mobility options like ridesharing, e-scooters, and bikeshares took cities by surprise and flooded already crowded urban centers...
by Steph Stoppenhagen, Director of Strategy & Innovation - Connected Communities, Black & Veatch | Jul 20, 2020 | Infrastructure, Technology
I’ll bet that most of us have not thought about telecommunications and how it affects our daily lives until the Coronavirus hit us hard, right? As the current COVID-19 crisis illustrates, telecommunications are mission critical infrastructure. Without it, Zoom...
by Wendell Cox, Principal, Demographia | Jul 13, 2020 | Economy, Governance
Last year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published research showing that the middle-class is shrinking throughout the developed world. In Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle-Class, OECD emphasized that the threat to the middle-class...
by Mark Sussman, CEO and Co-founder of OurStreets | Jul 6, 2020 | Governance, Technology
As the co-founder and CEO of OurStreets, I recently completed a three month odyssey, leading the OurStreets team in a rapid pivot to using our existing technology to serve the public during COVID-19. We have now repurposed our crowdsourced street safety app to instead...
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