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Apr

Four Videos About Smarter Cities

Categories: Data and Infrastructure, Digital, UK

Tags: cc

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by Joe Peach

A debate last month brought together four prominent speakers from the urbanism world to discuss the potential of technologically-enabled cities. The event, hosted by Intelligence Squared and chaired by Tony Travers from the London School of Economics, is now online in the form of these four videos. Read more

Mar

Data Farming: Demonstrating the Benefits of Urban Agriculture

Categories: Data and Infrastructure, Digital, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, Kansas City, New York

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by Kyle Rogler

Finding available land for an urban farm is only half of the battle. The other half involves changing local zoning laws, influencing political opinion, garnering economic support, and proving the project will have a net benefit to a community. Strong data can help in all these instances. Read more

Mar

Crowd House Mortgages: How Our Financial World Might be Different in 2030

Categories: Community, Digital, Governance, People

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by Forum for the Future

The Crowd House Mortgage idea couldn’t be more removed from the model of today. The capital lent is sourced from people who know the borrowers – possibly in a virtual sense – and the lending decision is taken not by computer but by those lenders. Could it actually happen? Quite possibly. Read more