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A report by Oxford Economics  forecasts the top 10 cities by measures of economic size, population, and GDP growth rate. Read more in Visual Capitalist  The World’s Top 10 Cities in 2035 By Iman Ghosh was last modified: August 16th,…

Milan is beginning to transform 22 miles of local streets, adding temporary bike lanes and wider sidewalks, and lowering the speed limit. In Berlin, some parking spots have also become pop-up bike lanes. Paris is fast-tracking long-distance bike lanes that…

To track the pro-cycling efforts and initiatives taken by cities around the world, we present the Copenhagenize Index, a comprehensive and holistic ranking of the world’s most bicycle-friendly cities Read more in wired  The 20 most Bike Friendly cities on…

Modern mobility proponents seek perpetual motion, too, using both established forms of transit and new ones: ride sharing, free-floating bikes and scooters, and more Read moe in BCG Seeking Perpetual Motion with Mobility as a Service By Joël Hazan ,…

Traditional approaches to solving mobility problems—adding roads and transit lines—are not sustainable, primarily because of concerns related to climate change, public health, and funding. Hence the interest in new technology-powered forms of mobility: ride sharing, free-floating bikes, autonomous electric vehicles,…

Mobility is intrinsic to the quality of life experienced in cities. But for the past century, the car has dominated how we plan and grow our urban areas. We must now seize the opportunity to place people back at the…

If there’s one lesson from 2016 that we should take with us as a starting point, it’s that our current governance structures are no longer serving us.  Positioned awkwardly between our planet-scale problems and our people-scaled ones, nation states find…

The main thrust of the pedestrianization movement is that we need to re-think urban planning, and start designing cities for people, not cars. Proponents of pedestrianization say that fewer cars would mean less stress and more effective use of people’s…

New York’s worst natural disaster in recent memory—Superstorm Sandy—struck during the Bloomberg administration, spurring the city not only to use data more aggressively but also to improve the quality of those data Read more in labcities  The Fourth Urban Revolution…

When it comes to new forms of shared-use mobility – including bikesharing, carsharing and ridehailing – no one stands to benefit more than our nation’s cities.” learn more in labcities  Cities Of The Future And Shared Mobility By Labcities was…