The Atlantic, The Aspen Institute, and Bloomberg Philanthropies are hosting the event “CityLab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges,” taking place October 6-8, 2013, in New York City. The event brings together 300 global city leaders’”more than 30 mayors, plus urban theorists, city planners, scholars, architects, and artists’”for a series of conversations about urban ideas that are shaping the world’s metro centers.
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The Chicago Technology Plan highlights 28 initiatives within five broad strategies that together will enable Chicago to realize its vision of becoming the city where technology fuels opportunity, inclusion, engagement, and innovation.
The report, “Building a Digital City: The Growth and Impact of New York’ s Tech / Information Sector’, features both an in-depth, quantitative analysis of New York’ s technology sector and a qualitative study of the attributes that have enabled New York and San Francisco to become the nation’ s two leading “digital cities’.
Data-Smart City Solutions, an initiative by Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, is working to catalyze adoption of data projects on the local government level by serving as a central resource for cities interested in this emerging field.
The Editors of Urban Studies journal decided to mark the journal’ s 50th birthday by putting together a virtual special issue that combines the five most cited Urban Studies articles, the five most downloaded, and the five most important published prior to 1990 (as collectively decided by the Editors).
OSCity (Open Source City) brings the Dutch spatial planning together with the newest information technology. By directly searching, visualizing and combining spatial data everybody is invited – from citizen, entrepreneur, designer and civil servant – to gain insight into everything that is spatial.
“The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming up To Solve Society’ s Toughest Problems,’ (September 17, 2013; Harvard Business Review Press) by Deloitte’ s William Eggers and Paul Macmillan explores how public and private sectors are converging to solve today’ s most urgent social problems.