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Here are three ways Singapore - named the top smart city in a surbey - is using technology to transform the lives and wellbeing of its citizens (2023)
London launches new 5-year Cycling Action Plan. Interview with Will Norman, London's cycling and walking commissioner. (2018)
Other areas, not so much. (2018)
The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succe... (2018)
Behavioral psychologist Ingrid Gehl influenced much of the thinking of her husband, the celebrated urbanist Jan Gehl. Imagine if all designers were... (2018)
It’s not a death spiral—at least, not yet. Examples abound of how city leaders can turn the numbers around... (2018)
How autonomous vehicles will reshape cities "MODERN CITIES, PARTICULARLY in America, are habitats for cars as much as people, devoting huge amou... (2018)
Plans are afoot to transform this Shanghai district into a world-class innovation hub. Here’s how leaders hope to overcome challenges in an e... (2018)
Urban leaders need to kick the incentive habit and take a more inclusive approach to growing local economies. (2019)
Talk of the transportation future is focused on the next shiny thing. But one old technology is central to real transformation... (2018)
Bloomberg, 2017: "West Houston’s Energy Corridor was hit with a wall of water to avoid a catastrophic reservoir failure. The Army Corps of Engi... (2017)
The Canadian city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong. (2022)
Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live. Since I moved to town, a bunch of people have asked me, “What’s up with Austin?” This ... (2022)
Introducing "superblocks." "In 2016, I wrote a brief story on “superblocks,” a hot new urban-planning idea out of Barcelona, Spain, that would r... (2019)
SimCity just turned 30. It has introduced millions of players to the joys and frustrations of zoning, street grids and infrastructure funding. For ... (2019)
New investment will support pilot projects in Detroit; Long Beach, California; Miami; San Jose, California; and Pittsburgh (2018)
In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans (2018)
Turns out there’s a lot of latent demand for a quick and cheap way to get around. (2018)
American cities rely on car-related fees to fund public transit. But driverless cars might not need to park or fill up on gas—causing the system to... (2018)
Instead of limiting scooters, officials should rebuild infrastructure with their riders in mind. Because a city made for scooters is a city made fo... (2018)
But can they succeed despite their essential dorkiness? Should You Ride an Electric Scooter? ... (2018)
Technology is changing cities as we know them. From sensors that track pedestrians and control street lights, to the ways local governments deliver... (2018)
How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented. (2018)
Wynwood is slated to get Miami’s first “woonerf,” a Dutch-inspired street design in which cars, bikes and pedestrians share the pavement. City comm... (2018)
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you coul... (2018)
Ric Herrero is co-founder and president of MANO, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a sustainable maker culture in the Greater Miami a... (2017)
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)
Cities | The Guardian | Life in South America’s largest metropolis is anything but uniform – the city’s core and its periphery are worlds apart ... (2017)
Cable Cars Are Changing the World – How We Get To Next On the slopes of the seven hills that surround the city of Medellín in Colombia, life is ... (2017)
Over 50% of peak hour taxi trips would be faster as Citi Bike rides, and taxis are only getting slower (2017)
How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)
VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)
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. Read ... (2018)
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 ... (2018)
This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)