Cities started master planning in response to the evolution of zoning law which initially gave municipalities the power to determine land use patterns for commercial, residential, industrial and open space uses. The practice of land use planning through zoning has evolved and resulted in many new tools for shaping the City’s growth, economic health, housing,… Read More
City Software: From Silos to Platform
By Barbara Thornton. Originally published 9-27-14 as a guest post in Sangeet Paul Choudary‘s blog Platform Thinking, The New Rules of Business in a Networked World. This post leverages the Magnet – Tools & Rules – Data framework that Choudary first alluded to in a Harvard Business Review article here. In this post, Barbara uses this Platform Thinking… Read More
Top 10 Tasks for Cities Acquiring Software
Cities face new and unanticipated challenges as they consider adding software. For city, town, county and regional governments around the world, this is the dawn of a new era, digital cities. Over 557,000 municipalities in the world and most of them still rely primarily on paper processing for their workflow. The 2013 attempt by the… Read More