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What Can Bill de Blasio Really Do About Broadband in New York City?
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio introduces Maya Wiley, the city’s new counsel to the mayor, on February 18. Credit: New York City Mayor’s Office. During a press conference at City Hall two Tuesdays...
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Google’s New 3D Mapping Phone
Google’s Project Tango offices. Credit: Google Google will soon begin shipping a prototype phone capable of mapping, in three dimensions, the world around us. It’s part of the company’s aggressively...
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A Greek Orthodox Church Wants to Build an Internet Cafe on Kansas City’s...
The cafe will operate out of a space owned by a Greek Orthodox church. Running north-south through Kansas City, Troost Avenue has long been the city’s sharply drawn racial and economic dividing line....
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The Freelancers Union Wants to Map the ‘New Mutualism’
The Freelancers Union’s new “Quiet Revolution” map, showing establishments in Portland, Ore. People today, writes Sara Horowitz, founder and leader of the Freelancers Union, have "stopped looking for...
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The Boston Guide to Design-Driven and Research-Honed Civic Innovation
A map of Boston based on Stamen’s watercolor map tiles. Boston’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and researchers with Emerson College’s Engagement Game Lab have spent the last few years working to...
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...Ask How You Can Design Products for Your Country
Credit: Swipesense If you start them young, can industrial designers, product designers, roboticists and their cousins in the ‘hard’ design fields learn the skills to tackle the world’s toughest...
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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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INTERVIEW: How to Make Detroit’s Data Accessible
Credit: Data Driven Detroit Credit: Data Driven Detroit The non-profit Data Driven Detroit was founded in 2008 with the ambition, according to director Erica Raleigh, of injecting data into a whole...
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What’s Different About San Francisco’s ‘Open Legislation’ Proposal
Credit: Kwong Yee Cheng on Flickr San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell last week introduced a measure that would mandate something that has, by all appearances, yet to be mandated in any city in the...
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Airbnb Picks Portland to Work Out Its Ideas on Urbanism
Credit: Mike Krzeszak on Flickr and Anthony Smyrski In a photo-heavy post on the platform Medium, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky lays out his vision for a new-old kind of urbanism that the...
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One Engineer’s Clipper Card Hack
Credit: Sam Churchill on Flickr For all the highfalutin talk of urban innovation going on these days, it can be difficult to grasp what these concepts actually look like in practice. One tiny example...
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Building the Facebook of Neighborhoods
Having her bike yanked from the utility closet of her San Francisco apartment building reminded Sarah Leary why she had spent the last three years building an online social network for neighbors. "I...
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If Oakland Were ‘The Hunger Games’
The city of Oakland, Calif. recently went though the decennial process of redrawing the boundaries for its eight city council districts. Related Stories ...Ask How You Can Design Products for Your...
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Texas Sets a Wind Power Record (or Two)
Turbines at the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Taylor County, Texas. Credit: AP Photo/L.M. Otero Texas may be known for its oil and gas industries and its love of driving, but on Wednesday, Mar....
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Entrepreneurship Is Not a Resilience Strategy
Ideas for everything from stopping coastal erosion to restoring oyster reefs damaged by the BP oil spill. Photo credit: Coast Guard News via Flickr The government’s woefully inadequate response at...
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New Starts: Electrifying Auckland, Express in Singapore, HSR Woes in China
A new feature published in Foreign Policy shows the flaws of China’s much-heralded high-speed rail network. Credit: AP Photo Our weekly roundup of new and newsworthy transportation projects around the...
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The Citi Bike Stations That Never Sleep
Credit: AP Photo/Frank Franklin II When Ben Wellington started teaching statistics to urban planners at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning, he tried to make the class less boring and more...
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This MIT Research Group Wants to Design 10,000 City Maps
"You Are Here" is a new project from MIT Media Lab’s Social Computing Group that sets itself apart from today’s bevy of online mapping projects by sheer scale. The project’s ambition is massive: 100...
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Why Twitter Trusts the Boston Police More Than It Does CNN
Credit: BPD on Twitter It has to be one of the most memorable and exuberantly received tweets in the history of the genre: “CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And...
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Don’t Feel Too Bad, Nashville— Even New York City Can’t Handle Real BRT
Credit: AP Photo/Erik Schelzig Contrary to a Wired post on Tuesday claiming that the Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation banning bus rapid transit in response to a project planned for Nashville,...
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