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All over the world, resiliency is moving to the top of the urban agenda. In response, the Smart Cities Council is partnering with leading organizations and governments to form a global network to accelerate community resilience. Individuals,...
Article - 09/30/2019
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Category: Shelter
Reflecting on the year that has just passed is a time-honored tradition. And for those of us involved in smart cities that reflection provides an opportunity to evaluate the events and trends that could influence the decisions we make as we move...
Article - 12/31/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Shelter, Transportation, Connectivity, Security and privacy
As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
While rental housing costs are rising in many cities and affordable housing is scarce, renters are still becoming increasingly inclined to favor sustainable design and green features in the homes they choose — to the point that they now take those...
Article - 07/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Shelter, Built environment
Urban environments are becoming more crowded, and high-density developments are being planned and built to house all those new citizens. But how do we ensure we're building healthy, livable environments? The story below describes a collaborative...
Article - 05/03/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Shelter, Built environment, Health and human services
A word of thanks to the Economic Roundtable (based in LA) for their work on developing data driven tools to reduce homelessness. Last year it was the Silicon Valley Triage Tool, this year an extensive report providing insights into how to...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services
I would guess one of the most daunting challenges city leaders and human services providers have on their plates today is how to help the homeless in their communities and at the same time protect public health and safety. In the case of homeless...
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
In China, rescue stations that take in the homeless and mentally ill people tend to be run by the government. Some have policies that after 10 days of free accommodations and food, they are issued a ticket to return to their home towns. As you'll...
Article - 07/17/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Mobility has several connotations. But it’s exciting to see an innovative company best known for manufacturing automobiles taking a broad view of what the term can mean. You’d expect Toyota to focus on physical mobility – how people get from point A...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Shelter
You hear a variety of reasons why so many young people today are living on the streets, in a car, on someone’s couch or in youth shelters. And it can be a challenging population to help as the number of homeless youth continues to increase in many...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, RG ANZ, RG Europe
Category: Shelter
The headline on a recent editorial in the Seattle Times says it all: "Focus on data, not good intentions, to combat homelessness." As it has for the past five years, Seattle's point-in-time count of the homeless climbed this year. Given that "by...
Article - 06/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Shelter
'Innovating to include' is the message we think resonates best with the effort to lift up vulnerable populations in communities around the world. Often we're talking about technology, but as you'll read below, innovation comes in many forms. –...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Shelter
"Poor housing linked to rising asthma cases in Europe," reads a recent EURACTIV headline. Damp and moldy buildings, bad heating, poor insulation are all suspect. In fact in Bulgaria, the article suggests 46.5% of the population is unable to keep...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Policies that force developers to incorporate affordable housing into new projects in exchange for incentives aren't new. But as the affordable housing crisis heats up, more cities are looking at inclusionary zoning as a partial solution. Katy...
Article - 05/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Left to right: Philip Bane, Karen Addato, Rose Broome, Daniel Flaming, Halil Toros, Ky LeLike San Francisco to the north, Silicon Valley has a homeless problem that can't be ignored. It’s estimated more than 6,500 people are homeless in Santa Clara...
Article - 05/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
I'm sure most of us walk by homeless people on the streets or drive by their encampments and wonder how they got there – and what it would take to get them into a better place. Andrew Funk, an American entrepreneur living in Barcelona, not only...
Article - 05/03/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
There's lots of wind in Berwickshire, a historic Scottish county that borders the North Sea. There's also some innovating thinking blowing through too. Case in point: The local housing charity partnered with a renewable energy charity to harness...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
If affordable housing is a huge problem today – and most would agree it is – how are we going to accommodate the additional 106 million low-income households that McKinsey Global Institute anticipates there will be by 2025? As you'll read below, a...
Article - 04/17/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
We continue our Quick Takes series with a look at some intriguing initiatives communities are undertaking to bolster their affordable housing stock and/or make existing housing more affordable. What’s notable in some of these examples is that they...
Article - 04/12/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Power for All is an advocacy organization working to achieve universal access to sustainable, cost-effective energy in the next decade. But they aren't advocating the traditional approach, which is to extend the centralized electric grid. Rather,...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Upward Mobility