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Private sector innovations in information technologies are transforming virtually every industry, and the rate of change seems to be accelerating ...

Seth Baron at City Journal explains how DiBlasio and NYC agencies focused so much of their efforts on climate change related ...

Jonah Markowitz of The New York Times offers a timeline of the many failures of New York City and State ...

An MIT Study claiming that NYC's subway system is a major reason why the city has become the global epicenter ...

Disasters often generate tremendous pressure to reform bureaucracies because inefficiencies which are easily hidden and tolerated during the normal course ...

New York State will be receiving 1,000 ventilators from the Chinese government on Saturday after the US federal government has ...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo goes on CNN to give his opinion of Trump's idea to quaratine the New York ...

Intrepid ProPublica muckracker Justin Elliott examines the lack of data New York City is releasing about Coronavirus cases. His main ...

This MIT project is developing open source plans for a ventilator in response to the Coronavirus panedemic. A lack of ...

New York Times opinion writer Charlie Warzel profiles a mutual aid group in Massachusetts organized in response to the Coronavirus ...

Tech philosopher Jaron Lanier explains in Foreign Affairs how the small and young but mighty democratic nation of Taiwan utilized ...

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently released a new digital "Affordability Index" to track the rising cost of housing, ...

  Transit agencies often treat fare evasion with arrests and prosecution, but Seattle’s King County Metro is going with compassion ...

By Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria. Following the celebration of the “creative city” (as described by Richard Florida), the “smart ...

SEATTLE—On an overcast morning in early April, three members of the Seattle City Council arrived to find their cavernous, titanium- ...

This week: Open Daka Kosovo showcases its many apps that improve democracy; A coder puts ICE on notice; and the ...

The prognosis for our planet, now widely accepted, is shattering our vision of a bright future for our cities, characterised ...

Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and Jeremy Nowak, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Drexel University's Lindy Institute for ...

In an effort to reduce their reliance on federal and state funding, the City of Berkeley is turning to a ...

The 8th edition World Water Forum, the world largest event on water in the world, is taking place in Brasilia ...

Mayors across the country are counting on voters to act on their frustration with Washington and state capitals — by ...

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Urbanization has already declared itself the mega-trend of the 21st century, with half the world’s population now living in cities ...

States have banned local ordinances on minimum wage increases, paid sick days and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. They’ve ...

The future is here. So say a report by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which in collaboration with a ...

A growing chorus of U.S. business leaders, state and local government officials, civil society groups, and foreign partners have condemned ...

It was unclear how, exactly, that submission to the United Nations would take place. Christiana Figueres, a former top United ...

HB 100, signed Monday, creates a “statewide regulatory framework for ride-hailing companies,” the Texas Tribune reports. House Bill 100 undoes ...

Both in the lead-up to and following on the heels of October’s Habitat III conference on sustainable cities, there has ...