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New York City Gets One Step Closer to Its Own Corner of the Internet
Credit: Nancy Scola New York has a new ambition: To be the first city in the world to use its top-level domain — .nyc — not just for generating revenue from virtual real estate or promoting tourist...
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The Year of the Privatizing, Broke and Self-Consciously Resilient City
A maglev train in Shanghai. Credit: Lars Plougmann on Flickr As 2013 speeds to an end, we’re thinking back on the year’s most defining urban trends. Below, our columnists weigh in on what the year has...
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Capturing the Love in Boston’s Much-Unloved City Hall
Boston has never been sure about its City Hall. The Boston Globe’s Jack Thomas has written about the moment when, in the 1960s, plans for the raw concrete complex were first presented: “[W]hen a veil...
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The City of New York Has Its Own Non-Profit I.T. Consulting Shop
Mayor Bloomberg and city staff announce Harlem’s coming free public WiFi network (CIIO Rahul Merchant is behind the mayor and to his right); credit: Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City New York...
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Even Online, People Seem to Require Payoffs for Civic Participation
Credit: Christopher Thompson on Flickr In this month’s issue of the libertarian-minded Reason magazine, Bill Eggers makes the case for what the headline of his piece calls “Crowdsourcing Social...
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In the Time It Takes You to Read This, $1,000 Will Have Been Pledged on...
Data source: Kickstarter Kickstarter, the granddaddy of online crowdfunding platforms, has once again released its year-end numbers. One of the more eye-catching statistics is that, in 2013, the...
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Why the End of the FCC’s Open Internet Rules Still Bodes Well for Municipal...
Prettyman Courthouse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided last week that the Federal Communications Commission...
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The Burlington Experiment: Home-Brewing a Bit of Internet in Northwest Vermont
Downtown Burlington, Vt. Credit: David Wilson on Flickr “People forget that the Internet is a real thing,” says Bradley Holt, a Burlington technologist. “It’s tangible.” By that, Holt is referring to...
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Manhattan Is for Walkers, and Other Data from NYC’s New Pedestrian-Tracking Tool
A map of New York City showing rates of pedestrian foot traffic, with the darker the green indicating higher rates. Credit: Placemeter Shortly after Christmas, New York City unveiled Business Atlas,...
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Inside New Mayor Bill Peduto’s Plan to Build “The Next Pittsburgh”
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto as a city councilmember in 2009. Credit: Flickr user dietzy2320 After nearly two decades as either a staffer or city councilmember, 49-year-old Bill Peduto became mayor of...
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Los Angeles Hires Its First Chief Innovation Technology Officer
Peter Marx. Credit: Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Los Angeles has named a technologist named Peter Marx to serve as the city’s first chief innovation technology officer,* Government Technology’s...
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Code for America Opens Up Its “Pattern Library”
Credit: Code for America As part of the rollout for its revamped website, Code for America has released something of peek behind the scenes: A pattern library for recreating the civic tech...
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Delivery-on-Demand Company Raises $16 Million, Questions About Safety and...
Through the Postmates app, you can place an order from any business you want, and someone will deliver it within an hour. Credit: AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach The public policy turbulence facing companies...
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What Europe’s Cities Want Bloomberg to Pay For
Credit: Ryan Rayburn/The World Bank Of the European cities that, by virtue of being home to 100,000 people or more, qualified for the latest round of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge, more...
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Obama Gets Two More of His Networked “Teaching Factories,” Has 41 to Go
President Obama tours a microprocessor manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Ore. in 2011. Credit: The White House/Pete Souza President Obama has managed to hide away, in plain sight, one the more...
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Why Preservationists Are Mapping Detroit’s Historic Layer
Credit: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio The Motor City Mapping project, Detroit’s sweeping bid to map every one of its land parcels using mobile devices, has been in the news of late, most prominently with a...
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A LinkedIn for the Food Start-Up Set
The rebooted Local Food Lab. There’s a proven model for accelerating tech start-ups: Host pitch days, help would-be founders polish ideas, connect them with funders, and sit back while they conquer...
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The Bright Side for Civic Geeks in the HealthCare.gov Mess
President Obama on a call from Air Force One in 2012. Credit: The White House (Pete Souza) The San Francisco-based non-profit Code for America, as we have discussed at length, focuses its work on...
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Vanguard Update: Our Largest Pool of Applicants Ever
Placemaking organization Glasshouse collective at work in Chattanooga. Credit: Katherine Currin It’s been two weeks since the window for Vanguard applications closed. As the applications trickled in,...
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If You Own a Smartphone, You Likely Live In or Near a City
Credit: Timothy Krause on Flickr On occasion of this being the quarter-century anniversary year of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s unleashing of the World Wide Web upon the world, the Pew Research Center is...
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