Jul 03, 2018
Small- and mid-sized cities have become the engine of our world’s fast-paced urbanization. Understanding secondary cities is key in getting our urban future right. Are these cities the new urban champions of the future? From Curitiba to Melbourne, six experts dive into the challenges and opportunities facing the world’s secondary cities. Presented by: Featured photo…
Jun 29, 2018
The Millennial Dilemma is a seminal study exploring the future of North American cities by forecasting where the Millennial generation will live and why. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Millennials have proven themselves to be a resilient generation, struggling…
Jun 29, 2018
Since 2016, NewCities has recognized trailblazing startups and social enterprises creatively applying technology to tackle pressing urban challenges. Our GUI community leads the worldwide conversation on cities and innovation by introducing new ideas and tools for achieving impact at the urban scale. Startups committed to improving city life face a unique challenge: finding the sweet…
Jun 29, 2018
This is a report about urban innovation: the ongoing, evolutionary journey of trying new things to improve your city. Innovation is something that we know is happening in places of every imaginable size and in all corners of the world. We see the products of this innovation everyday, but what we don’t know a lot…
Jun 29, 2018
Whitepaper: brought to you by CoMotion, The Rideshare Guy, and NewCities. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft have ushered in a new wave of mobility that has reshaped the transportation fabric of cities across the globe. What started as a novel way to hail a ride with an app is now a multi-billion dollar…
Jun 29, 2018
Eco-Counter is an international organization with a passion for using data to encourage more bike and pedestrian activity to better citizen health and a cleaner environment. From New York City to San Francisco, Montreal to Paris, planners around the world trust Eco-Counter to take their project on step further. Since 2015, Eco-Counter has released the…
Jun 29, 2018
French below Positioning exercise of Avenue McGill College Located in the heart of Montréal, the Avenue McGill College area is in full swing with the redesign of Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, the arrival of the Metropolitan Express Network downtown and major private investments in Place Ville-Marie and the Eaton Centre. In April 2018, the city announced…
Jun 29, 2018
The preeminent catalyst for new ideas, networking, resource development, and collaboration for new city leaders, the Greenfield Cities Alliance (GCA) is the leading global network of large greenfield urban developments around the world. It is an initiative of NewCities. The goal of this initiative is to create a setting to share best practices and generate…
Jun 29, 2018
Pitch your company and your technology to the planet’s best and smartest industry players and VCs The LA New Mobility Challenge is a major global startup competition focused on solving the challenges of urban mobility. The third edition of the Challenge brings together 12 semi-finalists who will pitch their innovations on stage to a crowd…
Jun 13, 2018
From public-private partnerships to CEPAC bonds, three experts explore innovative methods to finance urban infrastructure in U.S. cities. Featured photo by Red Morley Hewitt on Unsplash
Jun 12, 2018
Many say U.S. infrastructure is “crumbling.” Yet infrastructure’s durability creates challenges too. Unlike much of the modern machinery in our personal lives – which we can replace one-for-one on a regular basis – the opportunity for cities to replace a building or power plant with something new might only happen once in a generation, or…
Jun 12, 2018
In his state-of-the-union speech on January 30, 2018, President Trump called for a massive $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan to fix aging U.S. infrastructure. Underlying this federal initiative is a critical assumption: 80 percent of the funding will come from local and state governments, along with significant private sector participation. Yet with federal and state transfers…
