In cities around the world, digital platforms are bringing together citizens and service providers in innovative ways. In a recent post on Medium Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief of R&D and Julia Root, Adjunct Fellow at the GovLab write about the ways in which we observe cities re-imagining themselves. We point to four distinct ways that cities are redefining how they plan, build and invest in their futures. Each way deploys a different set of technologies and tools that when combined with urban thinking and design, is changing not just our urban environments, but the pace of change as well.
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