What is wrong?
Cities are often managed through separate agencies, disconnected plans and outdated infrastructure.
Technology may be added without improving affordability, public health, access, resilience or quality of life.
What is working?
- Neighborhood-scale planning
- Mixed-use development
- Green infrastructure
- Resilience hubs
- Community land trusts
- Participatory planning
- Open public data
- Smart water systems
- District energy
- Nature-based flood protection
Seven discussion questions
- What makes a city or community genuinely smart?
- How can housing, energy, food, mobility, water and health be planned together?
- How can residents meet more daily needs close to home?
- How should communities use data without creating surveillance?
- How can neighborhoods prepare for heat, flooding and outages?
- How can residents gain meaningful influence over development?
- What neighborhood-scale project could begin now?
Desired outcome
Participants identify one neighborhood and map its most important assets, risks and opportunities.