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What The Digital Revolution Means for Middle-Class Jobs
(All graphics courtesy of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings) According to popular narrative, technology’s rapid remake of the U.S. workforce has benefited wealthy coastal metro areas — and...
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Philly Taxi Companies Hope Joining Forces Helps Them Compete with Uber
(Credit: SPBer) Following the lead of cab companies and city officials in New York City, Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Philadelphia cab drivers have banded together to create a more digitally savvy...
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The Next Front in NYC’s Fight Against Discrimination: Algorithms
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) As more cities embrace big data, algorithms play a growing role in the day-to-day activities of civic life, determining things like which school a child will attend or whether...
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EU: Uber Is a Taxi Company, Not Just an App
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The question of whether Uber is a transportation company or merely an app facilitating digital transactions appears to have finally been settled, at least in Europe. The European...
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With Autonomous Cars, Who Buys the Insurance?
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Because the whole concept of car insurance is based on human error, autonomous vehicle technology raises a host of liability questions. If the car itself is at fault in...
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D.C. Team Will Fight Rats With Data
Predicted likelihood of rat infestations by census block (Credit: CapSTAT on Rats / Office of The Mayor) Washington, D.C., has a well-chronicled and long-standing rat problem — 50 years ago, Congress...
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Two Silicon Valley Cities Get First “Chief Privacy Officer”
San Jose City Hall As municipal systems from transit to public health become ever-more data driven, cities have been attempting to sort out the privacy issues that come with collecting so much...
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Municipal Broadband Advocates Score Victory in Colo. Town
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Less than a month after the FCC voted to repeal the nation’s net neutrality rules, the City Council in Fort Collins, Colorado, has decided to move ahead with a municipal...
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Smart City Expert Says “Sustainable” Shouldn’t Be the Goal
His Excellency Dr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh His Excellency Dr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh is a leading international voice on smart cities. He founded the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) in 1972, and...
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This Map of New Orleans Might Save a Life
(Photo: Daniel X. O'Neill) Where do ambulance drivers park when they’re waiting for a call? And how close are they to the areas where calls are likeliest to originate? Related Stories Officers...
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Cities Should Act More Like Amazon to Better Serve Their Citizens
(Photo by KCPhotoblog) The following is an excerpt from A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government, by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman. A New City O/S argues that...
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Seattle’s Checkout-Free Grocery Store Opens to Fanfare, Long Lines
A customer scans his Amazon Go cellphone app at the entrance as he heads into an Amazon Go store in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Amazon’s checkout-free grocery store opened to much fanfare (and...
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New Orleans Installs 250 New Surveillance Cameras
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) With Carnival season around the corner, New Orleans officials have green-lit the installation of 250 surveillance cameras across the city — part of a $40 million security plan...
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Reliance on Google Maps Street View Could Create an Urban Digital Divide
A Google Maps depiction of Arroyo Sarandí in Avellaneda This week, planners, policymakers and urban practitioners from across the world are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for World Urban Forum 9. This...
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Manila’s Public Transit Tricycles Get an Accessibility Upgrade
This week, planners, policymakers and urban practitioners from across the world are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for World Urban Forum 9. This story is part of Next City’s coverage of the Forum. For more...
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Seattle Could Be First U.S. City to Regulate Facebook Ads
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (AP Photo/Ben Margot) In 2016, a Russian “troll farm” spent $100,000 on Facebook ads to sway U.S. voters. A year and a half later, Seattle officials are pioneering an...
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New York Architecture Firm Proposes Floating Housing Complex
(Credit: DFA) Seawalls and flood insurance are all well and good, but a New York architecture firm has designed a more ambitious (but probably less practical) solution for housing people amid rising...
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Informal Settlers Get Into the Big Data Business
Mukuru, Kenya This week, planners, policymakers and urban practitioners from across the world are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for World Urban Forum 9. This story is part of Next City’s coverage of the...
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Uber Lets Doctors Call Rides for Their Patients
(Credit: Uber) Uber first ventured outside the traditional ride-sharing market with Uber Eats, a food delivery service, in 2014. Four years on, the company has apparently decided to full-throttle its...
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Advocates Call on MTA to Make New Fare Technology Fairer
The swipeable MetroCard is being phased out, which transit advocates say represents a huge opportunity. (Photo: Mr. T In DC) After 25 years, the end is drawing nigh for New York City’s iconic, yellow...
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