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Urban Innovation Newsletter, June 2020

The Center for Urban Innovation will continue to hold space for difficult conversations, so that people can say what they don’t normally say and hear what they don’t normally hear—about race, fear, pain, change, and power.

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06.16.2020

Urban Innovation

Procurement During a Pandemic

Never before has it been more important for our local governments to get public procurement right. How our local governments respond to the current crisis will lay the foundation for more equitable communities in the recovery to come.

BY Jennifer Bradley & 1 more

Blog Post

04.29.2020

Urban Innovation

Practice Safe Density

Density is more important than ever, but, in a time of pandemic it leaves city economies and city residents vulnerable. How do cities—governments, residents, businesses, civic groups—learn to practice safe density?

BY Jennifer Bradley

Blog Post

03.31.2020

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Jan 2020

“Broadband may be as important to New York City in the 21st Century as the subway or electricity was in the 20th Century,” according to NYC’s internet master plan...

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01.28.2020

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Dec 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is accepting applications for their three month paid fellowship program through February 13. The Hub trains technologists in the policy process and unleashes them on serious real world problems...

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12.19.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Nov 2019

“When we take the time to uncover the invisible, we see that creativity, sustainability and loyalty are all essential ingredients for a thriving economic environment both within business settings and beyond...”

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11.22.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Oct 2019

Failure exists in local government. Why can’t we talk more openly about it? Smart observations from our friends and partners at Centre for Public Impact...

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10.31.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Sept 2019

It’s not just lunch, and it’s not just copyediting: My friends and colleagues at the Brookings Institution and Living Cities are changing their organizational norms...

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09.24.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Aug 2019

Thanks to everyone who responded to our survey about how city governments can increase the number of “smart cities” or “civic tech” or “urban tech” procurements awarded to companies led by women and people of color...

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08.22.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, May 2019

The Center for Economic Inclusion’s recently released Indicators of an Inclusive Regional Economy measures how the Minneapolis-St.Paul region’s economy...

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05.30.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Apr 2019

Mid-May we’re in Detroit for a workshop with the Detroit Innovation Fellows. If you’re in Detroit May 15, stop by the Urban Consulate for a parlor talk...

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04.30.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Mar 2019

Next month, we’re hosting an event on mission-driven innovation in cities with The Centre for Public Impact...

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03.28.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Feb 2019

The Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation is ramping up our research on how cities are (or are not) using procurement to increase the pipeline...

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02.28.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Jan 2019

Welcome to one of our new year’s resolutions! Inspired by our friends at Venture Cafe Miami and CoProcure, whose newsletters delight us and make us think, we’ve committed to a once-a-month newsletter...

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01.31.2019

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation Newsletter, Dec 2018

As technology gets more sophisticated, its inner workings become more opaque. The last few years have made plain some troubling aspects of new technologies and revealed how little people know about how their devices are using them...

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12.20.2018

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