Gaming for Infrastructure
Online games can help prepare public-private partnerships to succeed.
Cities - Articles
Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities (more)
Inclusive Prosperity in an Age of Local Action
Communities cannot and should not wait for external forces to bridge local opportunity divides.
Nonelected Community Representatives
Community-based organizations play a larger role in deciding development projects than local politicians.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and a $1 Trillion Moonshot
The promise of investing big in underserved entrepreneurs in America.
Connecting Climate Resilience to the Bottom Line
The time is ripe for companies to look beyond quarterly earnings and depreciation schedules, and into frameworks and strategies that will build long-term resilience.
Impact Investing in Victorian England? The Case of Model Dwellings Companies
What we can learn today from an early approach to improving social conditions through investment.
Podcast
Building a Culture of Opportunity Within Disadvantaged Communities
How the organization MORTAR is creating entrepreneurship opportunities for poor and minority communities.
Civic Engagement: Why Cultural Institutions Must Lead the Way
Arts and culture organizations have the power to drive the cultural movement America needs to deliver democracy.
A Different View of Mapping
New platforms are using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to challenge Google’s dominance over how we see the world.
Unlocking the Potential of Tactical Urbanism
Many small-scale (but scalable) creative efforts to foster tangible urban change, inspired by the burgeoning “tactical urbanism” movement, have met with success—and yet the movement itself faces limitations. How might this approach continue to evolve so as to effect inclusive, sustainable, and meaningful social and political change at the local level?