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Jessica Helfand|Audio
S9E10: Quemuel Arroyo
Quemuel Arroyo is the first ever chief accessibility officer at the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Laetitia Wolff|Essays
Design is Capital: Five Lessons I Learned from Lille
Useful ingredients to bring design to cities.
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Laura Scherling|Essays
How Micromobility Vehicles are Redesigning Global Transportation Systems
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt business-as-usual, a micromobility revolution is quietly moving forward.
Laura Scherling|Essays
A Tale of Long Island City: Between Industrialization, Innovation, and Gentrification
The multi-faceted aspects of development in Long Island City, with creative and technological development deeply ingrained in it’s rich urban identity and history.
Rob Walker|Essays
Infrastructure Field Trips
The Macro City conference in the Bay Area includes "field trips" to examine "overlooked networks of infrastructure that surrounds us," firsthand.
John Thackara|Interviews
Ecuador, Open Knowledge, and ‘Buen Vivir’: Interview With Michel Bauwens
John Thackara interviews Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, is to lead a strategic policy project for Ecuador’s government called Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK), also known as the social knowledge economy project.
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