Are we in the age of the smart city? Will everyday existence be transformed by big data and its broad scale application to a range of public services and other central issues? This thoughtful set of meditations was released in June 2014 by scholars at the Wilson Center's Urban Sustainability Laboratory. The cities profiled in this report are New York, Ahmedabad, Sao Paulo, and Beijing, and...

A food bill for San Francisco http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3831&catid=4&volume_id=254&issue_id=301&volume_num=41&issue_num=37 Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-95297-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Food for the Cities [pdf] http://www.fao.org/fcit/index_en.asp Urban Agriculture...