Later today, I’ll be joining a panel discussion at SPUR talking about how urban agents are changing our cities, with local design and infrastructure smarties like Raphael Garcia from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission & Nancy Levinson from Design Observer.
On my radar: welcome urban innovations like parklets, less-popular (or at least more controversial) private bus lines to Silicon Valley and how a new kind of practice is emerging that works with open source software and data to bridge the divide.
New actors are forcing change in from the edges, outside of traditional power structures and narratives and in ways that challenge our assumptions about what cities are for and how they should be run.
If you can’t make it this afternoon (details here), I’ll be posting the talk later on.