Chicago CTO Says Senior Municipal Staff are Changing the Way Cities Work
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, June 28 2011
Chicago at night. Photo: Rhys Asplundh / Flickr Mayors across the United States are tasking senior staffers with changing the way their cities work, Chicago Chief Technology Officer John Tolva said during an interview ... Read More
A Good Story Well Told Is a Powerful Thing: Cities and Social Media Edition
BY Nick Judd | Monday, June 20 2011
Late last month, some folks in Grand Rapids, Mich. — a city of less than 1 million people — used a well-made viral video to completely change the way the world views their city. Theirs was just one of many ... Read More
Trend Watch: Cops and Communities Talk Traffic Data
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, May 24 2011
Governing Magazine's Heather Kerrigan reports that cities across the U.S. are finding a useful policing edge in overlaying crime data and traffic safety data. (In broad strokes, crime and traffic incidents tend to happen ... Read More
On 'Cities as Software'
BY Nick Judd | Monday, May 23 2011
Marcus Westbury, the festival organizer who led an effort to reinvigorate the downtown in his native Newcastle, Australia, by filling it with small businesses, art installations and temporary uses, shares an article he ... Read More
In Philly, Making it Harder for Landlords to Hide
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, May 5 2011
Technically Philly describes a hackathon project to find all properties owned by a given landlord by cross-referencing scraped data and city databases: So, say, a small-time property developer wanted neighborhood ... Read More
What's a Smartphone City If You Don't Have a Smartphone?
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, April 20 2011
"The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion" map from the Institute for the Future. Technology Review's Erica Naone warns that if the future of urban life is data-driven digital one, there's a risk that ... Read More
@RepWeiner's Going All @CoryBooker On Snow Removal
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, January 12 2011
The 311 Transaction
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, November 10 2010
Steven Johnson, writer and online entrepreneur, has a piece for Wired in which he explains what the treasure trove of data collected by New York City's 311 non-emergency reporting system can tell us about the swirling ... Read More
CFA Fellows: "Code the Next Chapter of American History"
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, July 21 2010