What We're Reading
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Feb 26, 2020
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Grocery Dive
Amazon opens first grocery store in Seattle
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Curbed NY
Housing, rental vouchers, outreach: Can NYC fix its homeless crisis?
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Government Technology
Is 3-D Visualization Software the Future of Urban Planning?
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Streetsblog USA
Ten Simple Policies to Subtract Cars From Our Streets
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The New York Times
Could the Trump Administration Block Congestion Pricing in New York?
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One Zero
Inside a Secretive $250 Million Private Transit System Just for Techies
Feb 25, 2020
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Phys.org
Designing today's cities for tomorrow's challenges
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Los Angeles Times
Most California cities refuse to retreat from rising seas. One town wants to show how it’s done
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Wired
The brutal reality of life inside one of the world's most polluted cities
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Curbed
Safe streets are the best tool we have to combat climate change
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Reuters
Self-driving car companies complain California test data may mislead
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Governing
What Cities Can Learn from the Nation's Only Privacy Commission
Feb 24, 2020
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VICE
Infamous NYPD Transit Cop Gives Secret Testimony About Racist Policing Practices
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Forbes
Cities Step Up Emissions Cuts As Climate Change Starts To Bite
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CityAM
Why global cities could be more valuable than high-performing tech stocks
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The New Yorker
Andy Byford’s Last Day with New York’s Transit System
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Construction Dive
California bullet train construction update shows costs could reach $100B
Feb 21, 2020
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Wired
Cities Fighting Climate Woes Hasten 'Green Gentrification'
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Reuters
Money trees: U.S. cities find new ways of valuing urban forests
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Smart Cities World
Vienna pilots virtual ‘culture token’ to reward greener travel
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The New York Times
In a City Under Lockdown, Hope Arrives by Motorbike
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GovTech
Autonomous Shuttles Are Beginning to Close Real Transit Gaps
Feb 20, 2020
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Phys.org
No need to give up on crowded cities: We can make density so much better
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The Wall Street Journal
Coronavirus Has U.S. Cities Stretching to Monitor Self-Quarantined Americans
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Mashable
Car-free streets are the future in vehicle-clogged cities
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South China Morning Post
Why smart cities should also be cybersecurity cities
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Grist
Why are climate-conscious cities often the least affordable?
Feb 19, 2020
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Next City
At “Shark Tank for Cities,” Civil Servants Learn to Speak Investors’ Language
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Fortune
The city that sees it all
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CityLab
What It Would Take to Make Paris a ‘15-Minute City’
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NPR
Amid Climate And Housing Crises, Cities Struggle To Place Housing Near Transit
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Forbes
The Re-Planning Of Cities Is Essential. And It Requires Changes In Our Habits.
Feb 18, 2020
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The Verge
‘Disgruntled’ former Waymo self-driving car operator arrested for causing car crash
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TechCrunch
Getting tech right in Iowa and elsewhere requires insight into data, human behavior
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Vice
Instead of Helping Homeless People, Cities Are Bussing Them Out of Town
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Bloomberg
Airbnb to America’s Big Cities: See You in Court
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Curbed
More seniors are living alone. Stop blaming them for the housing crisis.
