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Approaches to financing infrastructure projects vary around the world, so it's always useful to see what's working elsewhere.An interesting glimpse at a financing tool being used successfully in Latin America comes from Folha de S.Paulo columnist...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Finance and procurement
How can cities connect residents with economic opportunity? How can they give local businesses a boost? One solution may be as close as the nearest web browser or smartphone. More and more cities are building applications for citizens to...
Article - 05/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Every year since 2010 the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Council Advisor, has captured the year's climate change impacts in a short video. And each year, NRDC Executive Director Peter Lehner notes on his blog, it becomes more daunting to...
Article - 05/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
You can find a Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) in more than 100 countries around the world. But, until now, you couldn’t find one in the United States.Microsoft has announced the opening its first U.S.-based Innovation Center in downtown Miami...
Article - 05/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development
Sustainable cities are cities that make it reasonably easy to get to your job. And residents in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region now have a tool that helps them see exactly how reasonable -- or not -- job travel is.DataHaven...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Computing resources