- We are excited to share the results of our partnership with the cities of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver (British Columbia) in our latest report, “AVs in the Pacific Northwest: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Time of Automation." Through this partnership, we examined the possible impacts of autonomous vehicles on municipal greenhouse gas emissions. City staff and industry participants engaged with SCI Urbanism Next staff in this important exploratory, future-oriented effort.
- This past July, Urbanism Next brought together a national network of thirty partners from the academic, private, public, and nonprofit sectors for a two-day workshop in Portland. Supported by a National Science Foundation planning grant, this network is developing two main outputs. First, it is crafting an integrated synthesis of the state of knowledge in each subarea of Urbanism Next’s framework. Secondly, the network is establishing research goals. Short-term goals focus on how to better support policy-making, while long-term goals seek to understand how autonomous vehicles, micro-mobility, e-commerce, and the sharing economy impact cities’ form and function. The final report will be available this coming spring.
- The 2nd Annual Urbanism Next Conference will be held in Portland, May 7-9, 2019. We are busy reviewing scores of session and workshop proposals and are extremely excited to gather once again to learn the latest thinking about the impacts of emerging technologies on cities and how different communities are proactively addressing these disruptive forces.
Thank you to the many sponsors that have already stepped up to support the conference. Formal conference registration will be opening soon, so keep an eye on the website to reserve your place!
- Welcome Aboard: We are also pleased to welcome Jennifer Davidson to our Urbanism staff as a project manager who will oversee the creation of the Urbanism Next Research Clearinghouse!