Inclusionary Zoning: Portland’s Wile E. Coyote moment has arrived
City Observatory You won’t know that your inclusionary zoning program is wrecking the housing market until it’s too late to fix. How lags and game…
Category: Human Factors
The Human Factors For Vibrant Communities group promotes public-private partnerships that work from a Smart and Connected Cities perspective to directly improve community wellbeing and quality of life.
How the circular economy is helping China achieve its quest for ‘ecological civilisation’
Circular Economy on Medium By Vigil Yangjinqi Yu, Research Analyst, Ellen MacArthur Foundation In May of 2000, Kunsen Ji arrived in the city of Chizhou,…
Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
Source Link One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam. Once…
How smart cities can mitigate the impact of health crises
GCN By Stephanie Kanowitz Smart city technologies can help detect and mitigate public health crises, as evidenced by the current COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.…
Off-grid container-based home is tiny in size and cost
Source Link Pin-Up Houses, the Czech firm behind the rather colorful DIY US$10,000 tiny house, recently completed a new model that’s based on a shipping…
A parametric approach to pandemic resilience
Source: Smart City Drive Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Jason King, associate and parametric design lead at IBI Group. The coronavirus…
REEF Technology raises $700M to support the 15-minute city
Source: Smart City Drive Dive Brief: Mobility, logistics and neighborhood hub operator REEF Technology announced Tuesday it has raised $700 million to help deliver its…
Using Smart City Technology to Adapt to COVID Mobility Preferences
Meeting of the Minds As cities continue to fight against COVID-19, citizens are changing their commuting preferences to adjust to a new way of life.…
The Free Food Market
Source: Planet Money – episode originally ran in 2015. When Susannah Morgan was running a food bank in Alaska, she always needed produce. Items like fresh…
Transit Equity: Research and Advocacy Inspires Government Action
Harvard data-smart city “If you want to tackle historic racism and inequality, but you don’t understand the current needs, then you make decisions for the…