Bjarke Ingels Wants to Build a City on Mars By Jessica Peralta
New York — Bjarke Ingels is already changing the skyline of cities on Earth. But his latest dream is to be the first Martian architect. More specifically, he is now designing a city to be built Mars with the help of 3D printing. And he’s starting out in a desert in the United Arab Emirates, […]
Inside the mind of Daniel Libeskind: On Smart Cities, Tech and the Pandemic
CityAge: Everyone seems to have their own definition of a Smart City. What’s yours? Daniel Libeskind: It’s not just a city with good technology, it’s not a city with good planners, and enlightened architects. A good city has, at its center, an idea of social justice, where you have an equality in a democracy of citizens […]
How and Why We Must Support Our Cities’ Small Business Entrepreneurs With Access to Capital — During this Crisis and Beyond
The pandemic has made it more difficult than ever for small businesses — many of them run by Americans of color — to get access to capital. That lack of capital is killing many of them. It also doesn’t help that it’s also creating obvious inequity — there are half as many community banks that […]
Inside the Mind of Mobile Data Expert Mark Forster
AirSage takes the data constantly pinging from our smart phone and apps, adds it to other data sources, and crunches out remarkable insights on how we move — and what we do — in our cities. Mark Forster, Designated CEO for AirSage, tells us how this technology works, why it won’t be Big Brother and why data […]
How AI is Beating Covid-19
At CityAge’s Crossover: AI events, with 800 delegates from around the world, we learned that AI is already being used from the genome to the waiting room, to keep us safe. During this pandemic, the use of AI is pervasive. And after the pandemic, Ai’s application in health care, and pretty much every sector — […]
Discovering Pawtucket: $400 million development and soccer franchise to create thousands of jobs
With the end of the pandemic on the horizon, Brett Johnson is focused on bringing crowds to places where they’ve never been. Johnson and his partner Dan Kroeber operate Fortuitous Partners, a funding platform that invests in professional sports and real estate zones in mid-sized cities. Their latest destination? Pawtucket, Rhode Island: population 72,000. Investing in […]
Think Covid Changed Our Desire for Travel? Think Again.
Denise Berger: It looks like remote work will be sticking around. How do you think this will change the modelling of daily transportation for New York City? Rick Cotton: Travel trends and commuting trends will come back to a significant extent. I mean, if you look at travel and take air travel, as an example, it’s […]
Facing Our Drying Climate: Black & Veatch President on the future of water
Facing Our Drying Climate Black & Veatch President on the future of water CityAge: What did you think about the UN Climate Report? Cindy Wallis-Lage: We’ve been having these reports since I think 1990…I was thinking of it visually like a bell choir. We started out with small bells, as in: “Hey – you might want […]
A Glimpse into the Lives of Some of our Net Zero Speakers
Ursula Eicker, Concordia, Founding Co-Director of Next Generation Cities Institute CityAge: What was the last project you worked on that you were really excited about? Ursula: The C40 competition in Montréal, where we collaborated on the zero carbon transformation of an industrial heritage site close to downtown. Exciting team, many SDGs addressed and the winner will be […]
Bruce Katz: The promise of America’s Breakout Cities
A conversation between Bruce Katz, Co-Founder of the New Localism Advisors and Director at Drexel University, and CityAge on how America’s smaller cities can punch above their weight to lead our urban future. CityAge: What’s a Breakout City? Bruce Katz: We are on the cusp of one of the most pivotal decades in the history […]