Big Ideas
From Smart City Radio | 59:00
This week on Smart City, Big ideas, and big change. Tim Brown of IDEO tells
us how design thinking can sovle big problems, and authors William Eggers
and John O'Leary tell us how to make big government effective again
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Today we're talking about big ideas and big change.
First we'll talk with Tim Brown, CEO of the design firm IDEO. His new book,
Change By Design, shows how the techniques and strategies of design are
valuable in most any endeavor. Tim will tell us how to use "Design
Thinking" to approach a whole host of challenges -- including those in
cities.
And...from World War 2, to the moon landing, America has a long history of
great achievements. And yet. it seems we have lost faith in the ability of
government to get things done. We'll talk with William Eggers and John
O'Leary about their new book "If We Can Put A Man On the Moon" and what gets
in the way of getting big things done in government.
Get Off The Couch Pittsburgh
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This week on Smart City, we're getting out and about in the city of Pittsburgh. We'll talk to three people who are working to get people off the couch and out into the city on bikes, hikes, even...outdoor beer tasting?
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Pittsburgh is the nation's surprising comeback city. From its industrial past, Pittsburgh has become a city of Eds and Meds, with an unexpected focus on the environment. My guests today are part of the green transformation underway in Pittsburgh.
Scott Bricker runs Bike Pittsburgh, an organization committed to making Pittsburgh's streets increasingly safe and accessible for cyclists.
Erik Lingren and Sean Brady run Venture Outdoors, an organization promoting outdoor recreation in Pittsburgh.
Their work is a model for urban environmentalism and is at the heart of the strategy to make Pittsburgh "buzz-worthy."
Fixing Cities
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This week on Smart City we'll talk with Mayor Dayne Walling from Flint about fixing a city from the inside, and Ben Berkowitz from the site SeeClickFix about how citizens can help.
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Today we'll talk to two people who are working to fix problems in cities.
The City of Flint is no stranger to economic struggle, but Flint Mayor Dayne Walling is working to diversity the city's economy and change its trajectory. Today, he offers his formula for turning around a city.
And we'll talk with Ben Berkowitz from SeeClickFix.com. Using his own experience as a citizen complaining about problems, Ben co-created a place on the web for citizens to crowd-source public alerts. Ben believes the internet can change the way we interact with municipal government, and he's proving it with SeeClickFix.,
Ed Glaeser and Randy Gragg
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This week on Smart City we'll examine cities in history and how their past shapes their future.
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Ed Glaeser is our first guest, and he is always asking the question, "What makes cities work?" He is a prolific researcher at Harvard University's Department of Economics, and he has challenged the wisdom of the ambitions of shrinking cities to get bigger.
We'll also speak with Randy Gragg, who is the former Architecture and Urban design critic for Portland's daily newspaper, The Oregonian. He has been a close observer of that city's evolution to what is widely considered to be one of the nation's most successful cities. He is collaborating on a fantastic mash-up of art, architecture and urban design called City Dance in downtown Portland's public fountains designed by Lawrence Halprin.
Edward Glaeser on the Triumph of the City
From Carnegie Council | Part of the Just Business series | 29:17
"We live in an age in which it is effortless to telecommunicate across the globe, in which we could all just dial in from some sylvan suburb," says Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. "But along so many dimensions, cities are more vital, more innovative, and more important than ever."
Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.