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Startup Cities Institute

Startup Cities Institute (SCI) is a non-profit research organization that studies the use of startup communities for legal and political reform.

These zones, called Startup Cities, are special jurisdictions that can be used to create inclusive economic growth, combat corruption and insecurity, and test public policy innovations in transparency, public services, and environmental stewardship. SCI is a project of Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City.

18/09/2015

"Beginning this year old phone booths will be transformed into about 10,000 sleek metal slabs that will provide high-speed digital access throughout the entire city"

Private companies are paying the city $500 million to transform old pay phones into high-speed Internet hotspots. Is it a plan other cities can copy?

17/09/2015

"Teams of young mappers and adult facilitators spend roughly 45 days traversing their slums. They learn the shape of their neighborhood, how streets interconnect (or don't), and the the density of homes there. This information becomes the map's skeleton. Then, they fill in the specifics. They stake out what's needed through the eyes of children—where underserved public areas could become play spaces, where trash bins could be added in an area they regularly see littered with filth. Their ideal neighborhood is drawn and detailed onto the map."

A new project aims to give young Indians a voice in the city-development process.

16/09/2015

When government signage sucks

At some point in your life you’ve probably encountered a problem in the built world where the fix was obvious to you. Maybe a door that opened the...

15/09/2015

"As anchor brands such as JC Penney, Sears, and Macy's close stores and Americans show a preference for shopping online or in walkable urban centers, more malls are expected to close"

One-third of enclosed shopping centers are failing, so developers are getting a bit more creative.

14/09/2015

Can new industry hubs really be built from scratch?

Spending millions to revitalize a struggling portion of the city might seem like a good bet, but the current effort led by a billionaire CEO is...

11/09/2015

Startup hubs can compete with Silicon Valley on price

By all accounts, 2015 is a strong year for startup companies; I know this first hand, having worked with more than a few. When consumer confidence...

10/09/2015

An interview with Paul Romer

Blogging on my side interest in macro and growth theory has been crowded out by my day job, which has me in Colombia this week. This translation of...

09/09/2015

17,000 of the roughly 70,000 homes in foreclosure in New Jersey in the second quarter of 2015 were "zombies"

While a "zombie foreclosure" may sound like something you would find on a particularly messy episode of The Walking Dead, the term actually...

08/09/2015

Transforming Detroit

More than 1,000 vacant lots were cleared of debris, 100 vacant homes boarded, 500 tires removed, and 20 acres of grass mowed during a three day...

07/09/2015

"An average resident of Mumbai consumes 48 sq ft of space. Curiously enough, the Federal Bureau of Prisons allots 45-60 sq ft to prisoners. Yet, this limited space costs a fortune in Mumbai."

Mumbai, one of the world's densest cities, is now facing a paradox. With the floor space person declining at a fast pace, the Mumbaikars are...

04/09/2015

"Building a real city from scratch isn’t like playing Minecraft, Civilization or SimCity. Well, it is a little. But problems arise in reality that don’t come up in cyberspace, including vainglorious dictators, pompous architects, bureaucratic impedimenta and the fact that much of the best land is already inhabited by those intractable objects: pesky humans."

From Songdo, South Korea to Lavasa, India via Egypt’s unnamed new capital, everywhere you look it seems someone’s building a brand-new city. How...

03/09/2015

"Policymakers at the metropolitan level are increasingly working on designing their own unique policies and programs, and seeking to build organically grown entrepreneurial ecosystems with unique character, seeing that merely trying to copy Silicon Valley as America’s most visible success story has become irrational and futile."

Cities are delivering smart solutions to big challenges.

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