THE FUTURE OF Community Design
Kansas City, Mo., will remove the $1.50 bus fare this year to further encourage residents to use the system. But having accessible public transit is only one part of the city’s wider goal of improving quality of life.
THE FUTURE OF Community Design
The Steel City's splendid architectural gem of a bridge — one of 400 in Pittsburgh — has its roots in Venice, Italy, yet was designed by America’s foremost architect of the 19th century.
THE FUTURE OF Community Design
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Ellicott City, Md., has been devastated twice by flooding rivers that traverse the city. But one man has built a homemade warning system he hopes will save property and lives the next time the flood waters rise.
THE FUTURE OF What’s Happening Now
For too long, tech has been someone else’s problem — something policymakers didn’t believe they needed to think about or even fully understand. It’s time to define what we want from a revolution that’s affecting everything.
A new federal law could go a long way toward improving oversight of grant spending and making state and local financial reports more accessible to researchers and constituents.
CIO Uses Courage, Persistence to Uplift Detroit Through Tech
Caring, passionate, and having always pushed back against the status quo, Beth Niblock has used her role as Detroit Chief Information Officer to revitalize the city with technology after a tough period of bankruptcy.
The amount of time left until midnight on the Doomsday Clock after ticking down from two minutes last Thursday. The clock is “a striking metaphor for the precarious state of the world, but most frighteningly, it’s a metaphor backed by rigorous scientific scrutiny.” When the U.S. tested its first hydrogen bomb back in 1953, the Doomsday Clock was also set to less than two minutes until midnight.
