New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced the launch of The NYC Tenant Resource Portal – the city’s first free online portal to help tenants avoid eviction and keep them housed. “The city Read More
The New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO) created a mobility data tool – Micromobility & Your City: Leveraging Data to Achieve Policy Outcomes – to help cities evaluate their micro-mobility services against policy goals to foster Read More
The town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England has launched the MK:5G project which is seeking innovative ideas that will exploit the benefits of 5G technology. Working with the Connected Places Catapult, it has announced Read More
The city of Philadelphia, PA will launch a $17 million connectivity initiative – PHLConnectED – that will provide two years’ of free internet access to 35,000 families who have K-12 public school students. Philadelphia plans Read More
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced a $500 million infrastructure grant program to support the installation of microgrids, energy storage, backup power, and other advanced energy solutions. $446.4 million will be available Read More
Georgia Tech’s Georgia Smart Communities Challenge (Georgia Smart) 2020 has announced its winners. The program enables smart local development within the state of Georgia. Communities of any size can apply for technical and financial assistance Read More
Six months into this century’s pandemic, we have all settled into what can only be called an uncomfortable uncertainty. While this is being experienced by all of us on a very personal level, it also Read More
The city of Honolulu, HI will host a $6 million, four-year long, connected-vehicle data laboratory on a five-mile (~ 8 km) stretch of highway. The pilot project will install technology that tracks how many cars, Read More
Plant it Forward – a non-profit, community-supported, agriculture organization in Houston, TX – has a unique solution to food insecurity during the pandemic. It aims to provide refugees with agriculture experience with small urban farms Read More
The National Association of City Transportation Officials’ (NACTO) Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) recently released its Designing Streets for Kids guidelines. This supplement to NACTO-GDCI’s Global Street Design Guide (GSDG) is a free resource that Read More
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