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Beers in Beantown: What are the biggest innovations and most important disruptive forces in planning?

What technologies and trends will most disrupt planning in the next decade? The growing open government and radical transparency movement? The explosive growth of mobile? Location-based apps? Gamification? Data visualization? Social networks and tools? Curation? Augmented reality? In a sequel to last year’s Salon at the Saloon in New Orleans (“The End of Planning?”), join [...]

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Boulder Beats Portland! San Francisco is the Best! and Other Superlinear Outcomes

I blogged a few weeks ago about research on cities that a few different people, including some folks at the Sante Fe Institute were doing.  I mentioned that Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt from the Sante Fe Institute could “tell you the population, average wage, crime, GDP, number of colleges, restaurants, patents, cultural events, and [...]

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Rewarding Innovation

We often say we value innovative solutions to urban design and community planning problems.  If we mean it, we need to make sure we walk the talk.  Saying we love innovation but penalizing city staff, elected officials, and other decision makers when their earnest attempts don’t work as well as they had hoped makes people [...]

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