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Washington post
New York and Los Angeles are poised to become the nation’s innovation leaders.
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Fast Company
From floating neighborhoods in Lagos to nonprofit housing in New York City, architects dream up fanciful ideas for how cities of the future can grapple with swelling populations.
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Eco Business
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NPR
The story of a 24-year-old kid and the idea he thought would reduce congestion, cut greenhouse gasses and make urban life easier for everyone. Instead, it brought him nothing but trouble.
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Wired
Urban upgrades will be coming to metropolises old and new
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The Towner
Is There a Future For Alternative Living in London?
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Vox
Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.Help us make mor...
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Politico
Desperate to build more housing, the city just rewrote its decades-old zoning rules.
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The School of Life
Very high house prices aren’t an act of God or a fact of nature. They’re the result of all sorts of policy and design mistakes – which we should try to under...
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Forbes
'Build It and They Will Come' is an impoverishing fallacy.
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Planetizen
Planetizen founding Editor Chris Steins offers his evaluation of the top 25 thinkers at the intersection of planning and technology.
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The Guardian
The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution and turning secondary streets into ‘citizen spaces’ for culture, leisure and the community
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The Atlantic
Less visible than the rise of income inequality in America is its impact in shaping the country’s urban neighborhoods. Two books—by Matthew Desmond and Mitchell Duneier—could help change that.
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Vice News
Detroit’s seen a staggering 140,000 foreclosures in the last decade. Tens of thousands of homes have been left abandoned, turning entire neighborhoods into a...
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Grunge
These cities provide a snapshot of what our future will have in store for us.
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Bloomberg
Berlin is becoming a "Sponge City" designed to tackle two issues - heat and flooding - by imitating nature. Video by Gloria Kurnik https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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TED
More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The way we bui...
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Wired
Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs announces a plan to remake the Toronto waterfront in its data-soaked image.
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The Atlantic
Call them “accessory dwelling units” or “granny flats”—small living spaces built on existing lots could help make cities more affordable.
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Techcrunch
Zoning codes are a century old, and the lifeblood of all major U.S. cities (except arguably Houston), determining what can be built where and what activities can take place in a neighborhood. Yet as their complexity has risen, academics are increasingly exploring whether their rule-based systems for rationalizing urban space could be replaced with dynamic […]
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Smithsonian Magazine
The densely populated city-state is becoming a global leader in the underground urbanism movement
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How We Get To Next
While some ideas toyed with the building blocks, others reflected a desire to fundamentally reshape urban life-and to solve some of society's most pressing problems.
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BBC
How 3D software supercharged with real-time data can simulate complex designs before they're built.
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The Globe And Mail
Shanghai, one of the planet’s most populous urban centres, is growing at breakneck speed. But thanks to decades of planning, they’re doing it right. The city is destined for global supremacy
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The Atlantic
America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births.
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Homes in the future may be hyper connected pods that transform our habitat, communities and politics
Tech Xplore
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Vox
Chetty says the Creating Moves to Opportunity program has "the largest effect I’ve ever seen in a social science intervention."
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Phys Org
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Govtech
Research from Carnegie Mellon University, together with the Pittsburgh Department of City Planning, uses virtual reality and 3-D technology to help urban designers and other stakeholders better plan cities.
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Govtech
A city’s walkability contributes to improved health outcomes for residents, lower crime rates and increased civic engagement. Governments can use data and artificial intelligence to improve their streets for pedestrians.
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MIT Technology Review
Back in 1961, the gradual decline of many city centers in the U.S. began to puzzle urban planners and activists alike. One of them, the urban sociologist Jane Jacobs, began a widespread and detailed investigation of the causes and published her conclusions in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a controversial book that proposed…
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Governing
As the "smart city" movement has progressed through three distinct waves, local governments have found themselves increasingly struggling to manage the changes that alter many aspects of urban life.
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Quantumrun Foresight
Thanks to smart city sustainability initiatives, technology and responsibility are no longer a contradiction.
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Quantumrun Foresight
The compact city model may offer a human-centered, livable way forward in urban design.
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Quantumrun Foresight
Urban metaverses are virtual reality environments that can be used to improve service delivery and citizen experiences.
