happy mutants Machine-learning-based image classifier can tell when the bus and bike-lanes are illegally obstructed Cory Doctorow
scholarship GPS routing increases city throughput by shifting traffic jams onto residential streets Cory Doctorow
Business After Airbnb hosts converted New York's available housing stock to unlicensed hotel rooms, rents soared Cory Doctorow
happy mutants My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to schedule our lives to avoid heat-waves and traffic jams Cory Doctorow
surveillance It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities Cory Doctorow
canada How Google's Sidewalk Labs has outmaneuvered Toronto in its bid to build a "smart city" Cory Doctorow
privacy Seattle spends five years failing to come up with a privacy policy for its $3.6m surveillance network, then spends $150k ripping it out Cory Doctorow
urban theory One quarter of New Orleans' catch-basins were clogged to uselessness with 93,000 lbs of plastic Mardi Gras beads Cory Doctorow
urban theory The elite belief in Uberized, Muskized cities is at odds with fundamental, irrefutable facts of geometry Cory Doctorow
race Racist authoritarians insisted that ending stop-and-frisk would increase violent crime, but the opposite just happened Cory Doctorow
Safety By sheer dumb luck, an intersection where cyclists and cars can't see each other until seconds before they collide Cory Doctorow
class war Mexican cities secede to escape corruption and cartels, forming corporate dystopias, precarious utopian projects, and Mad Maxish militia towns Cory Doctorow
makers California's record poverty and real-estate bubble are creating a "wheel-estate" boom of people with good jobs living in their cars Cory Doctorow
uk After Grenfell, local UK governments pay the developers who chose lethal cladding to replace it Cory Doctorow
san francisco San Francisco SPCA uses a robot to chase away homeless people, because cruelty to humans is just fine Cory Doctorow
