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City Tech
Data Companies Track Our Pandemic Patterns
June 2020, English
Numina, a tech startup based in Brooklyn, New York, uses purpose-built sensors to gather data on pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, offering urban planners, policy makers, and mobility-focused businesses granular, anonymized information that can help shape new projects and tweak existing streetscape designs. While Numina has always focused on walkers and cyclists, its technology is […]
June 2020, English
Numina, a tech startup based in Brooklyn, New York, uses purpose-built sensors to gather data on pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, offering urban planners, policy makers, and mobility-focused businesses granular, anonymized information that can help shape new projects and tweak existing streetscape designs. While Numina has always focused on walkers and cyclists, its technology is […]
Water in the West
Finding (and Funding) Stormwater Capture Solutions
June 2020, English
After several hours of gentle rain in Tucson, water clogs the streets of the modest Palo Verde neighborhood. Traffic chokes a major intersection where an emergency vehicle’s flashing red and blue lights signal to cars to detour around a swamped section of road. Rivulets rush along the curbs of side streets, creating pools of […]
June 2020, English
After several hours of gentle rain in Tucson, water clogs the streets of the modest Palo Verde neighborhood. Traffic chokes a major intersection where an emergency vehicle’s flashing red and blue lights signal to cars to detour around a swamped section of road. Rivulets rush along the curbs of side streets, creating pools of […]
Planificación de escenarios en pandemia
Cómo aceptar y transitar la incertidumbre
June 2020, Spanish
Las autoridades locales se centran en reinstaurar los servicios rápidamente, regresar a los sistemas anteriores y hacerlos lo más efectivos posible en el nuevo contexto. Luego de un año de turbulencia, los empleados y el público en general no están muy tentados con el cambio. —Escenario de “Race Back to Normal” (“Carrera para volver […]
June 2020, Spanish
Las autoridades locales se centran en reinstaurar los servicios rápidamente, regresar a los sistemas anteriores y hacerlos lo más efectivos posible en el nuevo contexto. Luego de un año de turbulencia, los empleados y el público en general no están muy tentados con el cambio. —Escenario de “Race Back to Normal” (“Carrera para volver […]
Agua en el oeste
Hallar y financiar soluciones para capturar agua pluvial
June 2020, Spanish
Luego de varias horas de lluvia ligera en Tucson, el agua tapa las calles del modesto vecindario Palo Verde. El tráfico obstaculiza un cruce importante, donde un vehículo de emergencia proyecta una señal de luces rojas y azules para que los autos esquiven una sección anegada de la calle. Junto a las aceras de […]
June 2020, Spanish
Luego de varias horas de lluvia ligera en Tucson, el agua tapa las calles del modesto vecindario Palo Verde. El tráfico obstaculiza un cruce importante, donde un vehículo de emergencia proyecta una señal de luces rojas y azules para que los autos esquiven una sección anegada de la calle. Junto a las aceras de […]
June 2020, English
Think Land Policy Is Unrelated to Racial Injustice? Think Again.
June 2020, English
In the depths of the Great Depression, with the housing market in shambles and roughly half of America’s home mortgages in default, the U.S. Congress stepped in to provide massive emergency relief. From 1933 to 1936, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) refinanced more than $3 billion in mortgages—equivalent to roughly $1 trillion as […]
June 2020, English
In the depths of the Great Depression, with the housing market in shambles and roughly half of America’s home mortgages in default, the U.S. Congress stepped in to provide massive emergency relief. From 1933 to 1936, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) refinanced more than $3 billion in mortgages—equivalent to roughly $1 trillion as […]
The Destiny of Density
Affordability, Equity, and the Impacts of an Insidious Virus
June 2020, English
As cities around the world begin the slow and careful process of recovering from the initial wave of devastation caused by the novel coronavirus, their quest for resilience hinges on one characteristic that has long been a foundational asset: density. The ravages of the last six months — 500,000 lives lost and counting, record […]
June 2020, English
As cities around the world begin the slow and careful process of recovering from the initial wave of devastation caused by the novel coronavirus, their quest for resilience hinges on one characteristic that has long been a foundational asset: density. The ravages of the last six months — 500,000 lives lost and counting, record […]
El futuro de la densidad
Capacidad de pago, igualdad y los efectos de un virus insidioso
June 2020, Spanish
Las ciudades de todo el mundo comienzan la labor lenta y prudente de recuperarse de la primera oleada devastadora provocada por el nuevo coronavirus; su búsqueda de resiliencia gira en torno a una característica que es un valor fundacional desde hace mucho: la densidad. Los estragos de los últimos seis meses (500.000 vidas perdidas, […]
June 2020, Spanish
Las ciudades de todo el mundo comienzan la labor lenta y prudente de recuperarse de la primera oleada devastadora provocada por el nuevo coronavirus; su búsqueda de resiliencia gira en torno a una característica que es un valor fundacional desde hace mucho: la densidad. Los estragos de los últimos seis meses (500.000 vidas perdidas, […]
