Category: Urban Living
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Urban Grown Food, Africa Response to Pandemic
Where food comes from, how people access it, and what they are eating are all central to the COVID-19 response and recovery strategy for African cities.
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California Voters Shape Future of Platform Economy
Tech giants Uber and Lyft are pouring tens of millions of dollars into passing Proposition 22.
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Danish cities engage climate action planning in line with the Paris Agreement
Municipalities now have access to tools to help them create new policies to reduce carbon emissions.
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New York to Expand Open Streets to Weekdays
First-ever weekday hours available for popular, car-free outdoor dining initiative.
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Smart Checkout Technologies Help Retailers as Consumers Look for Frictionless Payments
The value of transactions processed by smart checkout technologies, where a frictionless model replaces the fixed checkout process, will reach $387 billion in 2025, up from just $2 billion in 2020.
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Time for Barcelona to “Hit Refresh”
It is time to make bold, disruptive changes in the city’s economy: fuel innovation, sustainability, and policies to improve Barcelona residents’ quality of life.
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When People Are Forced to Become Heroes
The idea of the hero stems from antiquity, heroes protect the rest of us from danger and allow us to continue living our comfortable lives. But, what happens when one is thrown into heroism without being asked?
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To Map the City’s Retail Health You Need to Walk the Streets
Barcelona and Manhattan, two municipalities with the same population and retail model, share many similarities and a couple of things they can learn from each other. Municipalities, facing the need to understand the real economic activity of the city, and its retail composition, can’t rely on registration data, they need to do fieldwork and keep […]
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Dirt Free Urban Gardening Through Sensors and Automation
Self contained hydroponic gardening systems are available for aspiring horticulturalists who want the benefits of plant life at home but who are missing the time or skills to manage them. In the old film Serpico, starring Al Paccino, there is a scene where he is gardening in his tiny New York townhouse yard. In a […]