Imagine making policy for a major retailer like Starbucks. Where would you start? A map of the city, perhaps, as well as traffic counts, other coffee shops, street infrastructure, rush ho...
Disposing of municipal solid waste presents a big, expensive challenge for local governments. The world's cities produce over a billion tons of waste a year, and annual solid waste manage...
Executive Summary
This chapter explores the inception and operating model of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA)—a young government unit whose story is fraught with ...
As today’s cities look for better ways to use the troves of new data at their disposal, augmented reality (AR) offers a new way of bringing this data to life. This technology—which assimi...
As one of America's fastest-growing cities, Seattle is a hotbed for development. City officials estimate that they will see more than 95,000 new housing units by 2035 to account for the c...
