The Pandemic’s Urban Legacy is Flexible Density

Rather than rushing out with a perspective early on in the pandemic that I’d later regret, I decided to wait and see how things shaped up. Finally, in late October 2020, I had a chance to reflect in Nautilus (article)…

How to Design Inclusive Futures for Last Mile Delivery

In the spring of 2020, we began working with Julia Powles, Bianca Wylie, and the team at Minderoo Foundation as part of a larger effort to reset the global conversation about technology platforms and power. Almost as soon as we…

What 136 Pilots Tell Us About the Future of AVs in Cities

How can cities harness AVs to solve pressing mobility challenges? What kinds of pilots can they undertake, and how should they run them? This web-based atlas, researched over two years, provides encyclopedic information on more than 136 cities across the…

Talk: Beyond the Driverless Car

This talk, delivered in spring 2019 at Toronto’s Evergreen Brickworks campus to kick off TD Bank’s Future Cities Speaker Series, provided a tear-down of the big trends behind automated mobility and explored how new types of automated vehicles—very small and…

Designs for Better Self-Driving Cities

The third and final output from our collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute on the Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles was a set of four scenarios. Published in collaboration with the National League of Cities, these scenarios…

Automated Vehicles 101: A Primer for Cities

In 2017, we developed a primer for 10 global cities working with the Bloomberg Philanthropies on long-term planning for AVs. This briefing book (PDF) offers insights on the big trends taking shape in AVs, and the consensus among experts about the nature…