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High-Tech for Small Cities: 8 Digital Tools Everyone Should Have
Abhi Nemani, former acting co-executive director of Code for America Until recently, Abhi Nemani was the acting co-executive director of the San Francisco-based non-profit Code for America, a...
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Did a 19-Year-Old Really Just Solve One of Earth’s Biggest Environmental...
Illustration courtesy: Boyan Slat / The Ocean Cleanup “Once there was the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, and now we are in the middle of the Plastic Age.” So begins 19-year-old Boyan Slat’s TEDx Talk...
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Can the “Playable City” Make Smart City Critics Smile?
The “Hello Lamp Post” project, a winner of Watershed’s Playable City Award (Watershed) Imagine a city where, as you walk along the sidewalk, you can see the moving shadows of pedestrians who preceded...
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Small Cities Don’t Need Google Fiber to Get Gigabit Connectivity
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) With Google Fiber’s gigabit fiber networks in Kansas City, Austin and Provo, and the company expressing interest in negotiating with nine other metro areas, competitors...
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Japan Launches a Space-Based Disaster Relief Strategy
Tanegashima Island, home of Japan’s space center. Photo credit: NASA / Bill Ingalls On May 24, Japan sent disaster prevention into low-orbit with the launch of a rocket from Tanegashima, its island...
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HUD Announces $1 Billion Competition for Disaster Recovery Ideas
HUD’s latest competition is targeted toward communities that suffered a major disaster in recent years, like Joplin, Missouri. (Photo by “Bob Webster” via Flickr) The latest contest in the federal...
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The Fight to Slow Traffic and Save Lives Builds in Pa.
Police gather at the scene of an accident that killed Samara Banks and three of her children as they crossed Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek) One year ago this month,...
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These FEMA Urban Disaster Trailers Actually Look Pretty Beautiful
The standard emergency housing model is being densified for cities like New York. Photo credit: Andrew Rugge / archphoto In downtown Brooklyn, adjacent to New York City’s Office of Emergency...
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21 Ways to Make European Cities More Resilient
A proposal to boost renewable energy in Spain is one of 21 finalists in Michael Bloomberg’s Mayor’s Challenge. Photo credit: jbdodane via Flickr Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s...
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Chattanooga’s Slow Growth Approach to Being the City of Breakneck Internet
Chattanooga schools take advantage of the city’s high-speed Gig network for interactive lessons. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The southeastern Tennessee city of Chattanooga has had blazingly fast...
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What Cities Need to Know About Beating Comcast at the Internet Game
Today’s broadband provider debate may affect our online future. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson, File) At the moment more eyes than usual are focused on high-speed Internet’s uncertain future in the United...
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What the Obama Administration Has Learned About Giving Away Cash Prizes
Federal agencies’ contests are listed on challenge.gov. At the very start of 2011, President Obama signed a reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act that did something special and new: It expanded...
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Twitter vs. Sirens: Urban Disaster Response in the Digital Age
Rescuers help residents affected by flooding near Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) During a 2012 flood, a Filipina woman tweeted to save her trapped mother and grandmother. After the 2011...
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Interactive Earthquake Map Shows Filipinos How Many People Will Die in Their...
Mylene Villegas stands next to a photograph of Mt. Pinatubo, which erupted in 1991 and 847 people in the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Photo credit: Aurora Almendral Manila is...
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Will “Blexting” Help With Detroit Blight?
Detroit residents can now use a “blexting” app — short for blight texting — to send photos about derelict properties to a mapping database in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Once, Detroit’s assembly...
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EPA Scientist: Tools That Let Everyone Measure Air Pollution Are a...
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) The rumble of the train passing underfoot is a familiar sound to any New Yorker. But few realize that each time the train whizzes by, a plume of polluted air comes up...
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How to Usefully Channel Your Outrage Over the SketchFactor App
(SketchFactor) Even before SketchFactor was released last Friday, the outcry over the app’s racist and classist tones was unmissable. In the words of its co-founders, SketchFactor takes user-generated...
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Next “Sharing Economy” Step: Backhoes on Loan
In some cities, the “sharing economy” is moving beyond cars — to tractors. MuniRent, a Michigan-based startup that wants to shake up the world of municipal procurement, was recently picked by Code for...
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Can an Event Space Unite Atlanta’s Sprawling Tech Scene?
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Every metro area in America is attempting to compete with Silicon Valley and New York City as an attractive home for startups. It takes a snowball effect of private and public...
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Holland Prepares to Open Huge Wind Farm With Enough Power for 160,000 Houses
Holland, famous for its windmills, is set to open a new wind farm that will power the homes of tens of thousands. (Photo by AP / Peter Dejong) The Noordoostpolder has always been a special place....
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