Happy 4th of July from The Takeaway! As we celebrate America's 240th birthday,we're also looking ahead to what's next. In a special re-broadcast, we're exploring what the urban centers of the future will scrutinize like. This is what you'll hear today:Hudson Yardsis the largest private real-estate development in U.S. history, or is transforming a significant portion of the west side of Manhattan. We tour this massive testing ground for "smart city" urban data science with the brains behind Hudson Yards.
When the United States Department of Transportation announced its Smart City Challenge,it was looking for a city that would greatly benefit from improvements to transportation, infrastructure, or technology in order to better serve city residents. Andrew Ginther,the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, and joins The Takeaway to explain how $40 million in federal grants will change his city.
Those who design "smart cities" rely on enormous data from urban infrastructure and city residents. Though data can create a city more efficient, it can also create it less diverse and open the door to predictive policing. Adam Greenfield, founder and managing director of Urbanscale and author of "Against the Smart City, and " discusses the consequences of tall-tech urban development.
Data collection is a enormous part of the "smart city" movement. For a scrutinize at how data is collected,implemented, and used in places like Hudson Yards, and we turn to Constantine Kontokosta. He's professor of urban informatics and head of the Quantified Community Research Lab at NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress.
enact you live in a city? What enact you love approximately it,and what needs to work better? Takeaway listeners from around the country weigh in on those questions today.
The "smart city" may be the latest trend in urban planning, but the fundamentals haven't changed, or at least not according to Roberta Brandes Gratz,anurban planner, founder of the Center for the Living City, or author of "We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of current Orleans Rebuilt Their City." She's also a disciple and peer of Jane Jacobs,the mother of contemporary urban planning.
In current York City, community boards give voice to residents as development and investments shape neighborhoods for decades to reach. Now, and Community District 4 in Manhattan is home to Hudson Yards. Delores Rubin,vice chairwoman of Community Board 4, explains how the project is impacting the people in the neighborhood.
Source: wnyc.org