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Durham’s Plan to ‘Nudge’ Drivers Out of Cars

Behavioral science strategies like offering prizes are getting people into public transit.

BY Laura Bliss

Blog Post

10.31.2018
Urban Innovation

A City: The Ultimate Startup

Sidewalk Labs is building a prototype for the urban future on Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront. This project asks us to re-think relationships between governments, the private sector, and residents. Dan Doctoroff, Founder and CEO, Sidewalk Labs joins Jennifer Bradley, Executive Director, Center for Urban Innovation, The Aspen Institute at CityLab Detroit.

BY CityLab 2018

Video

10.30.2018
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
Urban Innovation

Aspen Public Radio - Reimagining How Cities Thrive

The Honorable Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, in conversation with Aspen Institute president and CEO Dan Porterfield as part of the McCloskey Speaker Series.

BY Daniel R. Porterfield

Of Interest

07.12.2018
Urban Innovation

A More Inclusive Approach to Venture Capital: Action Steps

A guide for creating a more inclusive venture capital ecosystem. Includes action steps, organized both by type of actor and by time frame for implementation.

BY Urban Innovation

Publication

07.10.2018
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
Urban Innovation

'People Need To Feel That Their Feedback Has Been Heard, That People Are Very Responsive To Their Contributions, That It Matters. That's Ultimately What It’s About.'

This interview with Karin Brandt, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, coUrbanize, is the twenty-second and final interview in the Center for Urban Innovation's Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

BY Karin Brandt

Blog Post

04.26.2018
Urban Innovation

'It Would Be Amazing If Residents Met the People Who Are Actually Out On the Streets Implementing Policy.'

This interview with Nick DeMonner and Maggie Henry of Seneca Systems is the twenty-first in the Center for Urban Innovation's Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

BY Nick DeMonner & 1 more

Blog Post

04.24.2018
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