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Urban Innovation

Procurement During a Pandemic

Never before has it been more important for our local governments to get public procurement right. How our local governments respond to the current crisis will lay the foundation for more equitable communities in the recovery to come.

BY Kaye Sklar & 1 more

Blog Post

04.29.2020
Urban Innovation

Practice Safe Density

Density is more important than ever, but, in a time of pandemic it leaves city economies and city residents vulnerable. How do cities—governments, residents, businesses, civic groups—learn to practice safe density?

BY Jennifer Bradley

Blog Post

03.31.2020
Around the Institute

WeWork and the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative Release Study About Major Trends Shaping Urban Work and Life

Today, the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative and WeWork released the findings from their Future of Work and Cities Survey, a global research project designed to better understand the major trends shaping the 21st century, including urbanization, automation, and climate change, through the lens of people in cities who are experiencing them.

BY Future of Work Initiative

Blog Post

01.22.2020
Culture

Why Joy Is Better Than Happiness

Will building delight into cities make them more cloying or more fun?

BY Ian Bogost

Blog Post

06.28.2019
Urban Innovation

Culture Shift: How Tech is Changing Citizenship

Alberto Ibargüen, President of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation sits down with Jennifer Bradley, Director of the Center for Urban Innovation, The Aspen Institute to discuss how technology is changing citizenship around the world at CityLab Detroit.

BY CityLab 2018

Video

10.29.2018
US Government

Reimagining How Cities Thrive

A conversation with the Honorable Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles.

BY Aspen Community Programs

Video

07.11.2018
Urban Innovation

Access to Capital for Urban Innovators

Urban innovators share a commitment to using new approaches, and often new technologies, to tackle long-standing challenges that seem unsolvable to others and that affect a large number of cities.

BY Urban Innovation

Publication

06.22.2018
Urban Innovation

How Local Leaders Can Embrace New Tools of Governance to Promote Inclusion

“How are cities changing, and who benefits, and how can we make sure that the most people benefit, and how do we make sure the city is inclusive for as many people as possible, is the issue we are all going to be faced with increasingly in the future.”

BY Elena Bell

Blog Post

05.30.2018