WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities' online resource for the latest news and analysis on urban sustainability and development, from a global perspective.

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Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

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2018 Book by Susan Crawford

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APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

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An API standard for ride hailing services

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Bringing a new approach to urban health, one block at a time

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• Good health and well-being

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• Access social benefits

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

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• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Building inside government

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

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• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Propose bold ideas that solve for real urban needs, improve the way we live, support a thriving economy, and create good-paying jobs.

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Through this City of Pittsburgh and Urban Redevelopment Authority initiative, we hope to celebrate, showcase and connect individuals, organizations and businesses working to make Pittsburgh an innovative place for all.

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A new cloud-based platform addresses urban flooding problems through green infrastructure performance monitoring.

• Clean water and sanitation

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• Smart Cities and sensors

Create greener communities and explore our urban forests, together.

• Life on land

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• Crowdsourcing

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Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

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• Participatory democracy

The ride-hailing company is working with DC to share data—and the much coveted curb.

• Uber

• Data science for social good
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AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• cities

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• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

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área experimental y creativa del gobierno de la Ciudad de México de 2013 al 2018.

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Hundreds of public agencies around the world use Strava Metro to evaluate and improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Strava

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MOPA is a Mozambican platform for participatory monitoring of the delivery of public urban services.

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

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Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

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• urban planning

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The Vanguard conference is an experiential urban leadership gathering of rising urban leaders working to improve cities across sectors, including urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media. By selection only.

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Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

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Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

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• urban planning

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• Data science for social good

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

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More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.

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NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

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The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

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• trainings

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Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

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The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has been […]

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Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science

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The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

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CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

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CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

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Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

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An urban tech company acquired by Intersection

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The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

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Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments. In reality, the total experience of a city’s air quality is a combination of highly localized as well as more regional effects that shift in intensity as one moves through an urban landscape.

• air quality

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• Smart Cities and sensors

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

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A global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future.

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Flying High is a collaborative engagement with cities, technologists and researchers, regulators, government, public services and citizens to shape the future of urban drone use in the UK to meet local needs.

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Civic engagement for street design

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• Engagement tech
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• Digital participation platforms