Urban Innovation

This expert panel of city leaders, technologists, and innovators discuss why it is usually so hard to learn from failure in government and what governments and their allies can do about it.

Why is it so hard to learn from failure in government?

Why is it so hard to learn from failure in government? What can leaders and their allies do about it?

The Center for Urban Innovation will continue to hold space for difficult conversations, so that people can say what they don’t normally say and hear what they don’t normally hear—about race, fear, pain, change, and power.

Join the Center for Urban Innovation and Aspen Digital to hear from experts on urban innovation, city government, privacy, and technology as we discuss how other cities have been grappling with these issues, and what changes in a post-pandemic world.

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.

Every day there’s a new story about the challenges that municipal governments face with procurement due to COVID-19.

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?

“Broadband may be as important to New York City in the 21st Century as the subway or electricity was in the 20th Century,” according to NYC’s internet master plan...