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Aditi Mehta | Oct 24th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: Central, East Coast, Midwest, South, West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, New Orleans |
Like people, these misplaced chairs bring different personalities to the street and even tell stories about their respective neighborhoods. Sometimes they hang out on the sidewalk for a while, but most of the time they don’t linger long. (
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Emilie Bahr | Oct 8th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
Could the special yet hard to describe place of New Orleans in the American psyche explain the influx of young, educated people to the city in the past several years? (
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Theodore Brown | Sep 29th, 2011 | Topic: Economy | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Occupy Wall Street protesters are chasing the tail and not the head. Rising poverty and stagnant opportunities weren’t caused by financiers anymore than the hostage crisis was caused by President Carter. (
keep reading…)
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Bailey McCann | Jul 10th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Just over 50 cities in the US have their own fiber networks and fewer than 100 have cable networks. Communities it seems, can’t compete with the private sector to provide broadband access to citizens in the United States. (
keep reading…)
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This Big City | Jul 7th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Creating new Intelligent Cities is a grand plan that should be lauded but what if nobody wants to live in the cities you’ve created? (
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Theodore Brown | Jul 1st, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
The evolution of public transportation -outside of the meteoric rise of information technology- has been a boring, straight line, but the systems themselves, those systems cannot be reduced to linear conclusions. (
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Dec 8th, 2010 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Given that elected officials and bureaucrats face lots of incentives to keep a lid on information, there’s a lot of work to be done in the political arena if we are to keep open government from being an oxymoron. (
keep reading…)
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Nov 15th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: Chicago, Washington, D.C. |
Online tools hold enormous potential to help citizens get involved in their communities. Yet without an informed citizenry and a strong culture of civic engagement, its likely that even the most sophisticated uses of online technology won’t succeed in increasing public participation. (
keep reading…)
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Nov 3rd, 2010 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The rise of Web 2.0 technologies, increasing Internet use, and the growing number of people with disabilities means that web accessibility is more important than ever. Open data and development practices can help increase accessibility. (
keep reading…)
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Oct 21st, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: | Cities: New York |
A Smarter Model for Bicycle Sharing: A New York-based start-up is leveraging mobile phones and GPS technology to create a system that does away with expensive docking stations and proprietary bicycles. (
keep reading…)
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Like people, these misplaced chairs bring different personalities to the street and even tell stories about their respective neighborhoods. Sometimes they hang out on the sidewalk for a while, but most of the time they don’t linger long. (keep reading…)
Could the special yet hard to describe place of New Orleans in the American psyche explain the influx of young, educated people to the city in the past several years? (keep reading…)
Occupy Wall Street protesters are chasing the tail and not the head. Rising poverty and stagnant opportunities weren’t caused by financiers anymore than the hostage crisis was caused by President Carter. (keep reading…)
Just over 50 cities in the US have their own fiber networks and fewer than 100 have cable networks. Communities it seems, can’t compete with the private sector to provide broadband access to citizens in the United States. (keep reading…)
Creating new Intelligent Cities is a grand plan that should be lauded but what if nobody wants to live in the cities you’ve created? (keep reading…)
The evolution of public transportation -outside of the meteoric rise of information technology- has been a boring, straight line, but the systems themselves, those systems cannot be reduced to linear conclusions. (keep reading…)
Given that elected officials and bureaucrats face lots of incentives to keep a lid on information, there’s a lot of work to be done in the political arena if we are to keep open government from being an oxymoron. (keep reading…)
Online tools hold enormous potential to help citizens get involved in their communities. Yet without an informed citizenry and a strong culture of civic engagement, its likely that even the most sophisticated uses of online technology won’t succeed in increasing public participation. (keep reading…)
The rise of Web 2.0 technologies, increasing Internet use, and the growing number of people with disabilities means that web accessibility is more important than ever. Open data and development practices can help increase accessibility. (keep reading…)
A Smarter Model for Bicycle Sharing: A New York-based start-up is leveraging mobile phones and GPS technology to create a system that does away with expensive docking stations and proprietary bicycles. (keep reading…)
