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Episode 04: Anthony Ling on Brazilian Cities and the Future of Transportation

October 12, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Sao Paulo

My guest this week is Anthony Ling. Anthony is founder and editor of Caos Planejado, a Brazilian website on cities and urban planning. He also founded Bora, a transportation technology startup and is currently an MBA candidate at Stanford University. He graduated Architecture and Urban Planning at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Logistics & Transportation, market urbanism podcast, planning, Transportation, World Tagged With: anthony ling, brasilia, Brazil, caos planejado, driverless cars, favela, Sao Paulo, smart city, transit

A Smart City in Your Pocket: From top-down command centers to bottom-up app markets

January 10, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Woman sitting on a bench in a park using a smartphone

 Cities, for most of human history, were dumb. At least, that’s what the “smart cities” movement might lead you to believe. Over the past few years, a chorus of acquisitive multinational tech corporations, trend-savvy politicians, and optimistic developers­­—an odd mixture of former SimCity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, Logistics & Transportation, planning, privatization, Transportation Tagged With: infrastructure, permissionless innovation, sharing economy, smart city, tech

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