Urban Innovation

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

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.

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.

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.

A More Inclusive Approach to Venture Capital: Action Steps for Venture Capitalists, Ecosystem Builders, and Philanthropies is a guide for creating a more inclusive venture capital ecosystem. The guide includes action steps, organized both by type of actor and by time frame for implementation, surfaced at a day-long, off-the-record convening focused on how the venture capital ecosystem can be more inclusive and accessible to a wide range of founders, and how venture funds dedicated to supporting women and people of color can be smarter about bolstering investment returns. 

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.”

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.

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.