Cities

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

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.

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

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.  Despite urban innovators’ insightful ideas on new ways to solve metropolitan areas’ most difficult challenges, many lack access to critical resources, tools, and funding.

“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.”