OBERLIN
Environment
Challenge: Transportation is a critical problem for us and the surrounding suburban towns. Public transport is slow and unreliable and the number of cars is a constant creator of inefficiency and danger.
Challenge: Ensuring disparate individual utilities coordinate capital investment decisions to enable development.
Idea: Seamless bike and subway in New York City.
Challenge
Challenge
"Transportation is a critical problem for us and the surrounding suburban towns. Public transport is slow and unreliable and the number of cars, as a result is a constant creator of inefficiency and danger."
13%
Challenge
GOVERNANCE
PRISHTINA
Challenge: Transparency. Educating civilians of local and state governments, organizational structures, allocation of resources, accurate demographics, etc.
HOUSING
Idea: Separate bike lanes that safely allow bikers and cars to commute together.
Throughout the co-creation exercise, the challenges and ideas shared by participants surfaced several recurring themes deemed critical to how we shape our cities in the future.
Idea
BOCA RATON
Others
Challenge: How to own and charge an electric car in an urban row house when there's no parking spot?
DETROIT
infrastructure
"Traffic and waste solutions."
"Water leaks
and pot holes."
Challenge: Governance on city regional challenges.
LEARN MORE
Challenge: Identification process and user experience through DMV or applying for visas.
Challenge: Outmoded transportation systems that do not recognize new patterns of living and working centered around formerly non core districts.
Matt, New York
MOBILITY
City leaders and civic experts in New York participated in a
“co-creation” exercise powered by City Possible. They shared the challenges facing the future of their cities and co-created ideas to help solve them.
10%
Challenge
Challenge: Not enough
green space.
Challenge: Roosevelt Island - no integrated approach to public buildings on the island.
Challenge: Urban development is necessary but the mess, like traffic jams, they create need a solution.
Idea: Trucks that must park or double park to pick up or drop off goods would cause less congestion if they did so at hours less prone to high volumes of traffic. Perhaps at night?
Challenge: Addressing water contamination issues due to lead and aging infrastructure where 25% of the worlds fresh water exists - the Great Lakes.
Paul, Detroit
Idea: When transit workers go on strike, bus drivers continued driving and transporting citizens but not charging fares. This puts the pressure on leadership rather than stress on citizens.
25%
How can outmoded transportation systems address evolving population density and commuting trends more agilely?
Idea: Inclusion (more specifically education) for disabled and elderly
in the city.
HOUSING
Ken, New Haven
Learn more about the City Possible model for co-developing, piloting, and scaling solutions for cities’ most pressing urban challenges.
New York
Idea
Idea: We should create more bike paths particularly uptown to incentivize people to use citibike and allow time to revamp the subway
"We should create more bike paths particularly uptown to incentivize people to use citibike and allow time to revamp the subway."
INFRASTRUCTURE
"Traffic is terrible. Potholes are a problem. Illegal Construction. Lack of cycling lanes."
Challenge: Lack of
multi-modal transit integration.
Challenge
Linda, Oberlin
Saras, New York
Challenge
"Affordable housing."
How can a city advance sustainable approaches to urban development to reduce its carbon footprint in the world?
Gary, New York
Co-Creating the
City of the Future
ENVIRONMENT
Challenge: Green buildings.
Challenge
Idea
Challenge
"Affordable and sustainable housing."
Challenge
"Not enough
green space."
"Transparency. Educating civilians of local and state governments, organizational structures, allocation of resources, accurate demographics, etc."
Challenge: Lack of affordable housing.
Challenge
Celik, Prishtina
Mike, New York
ECONOMY
Chuck, Chicago
Challenge
12.5%
SEE CHALLENGES
MOBILITY
MADRID
"How to own and charge an electric car in urban row house (no parking spot)?"
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Challenge
TOURISM
23%
SEE IDEAS
GOVERNANCE
Thanks to everyone who helped surface challenges and innovative solution ideas at Smart Cities New York.
"Figuring out how to retrofit buildings to utilize only renewables. It is challenging to
find cost effective measures when natural gas is so inexpensive."
Challenge: Inefficient and outdated public transit infrastructure.
Challenge
How do we more efficiently engage city residents to help increase policy transparency, program awareness and
social inclusion?
Idea: Funding of #InvestInSkillsNY is a demonstrable $175M investment by NYS to link workforce development to economic development to train New Yorkers for the future
of work.
Whitney, New York
Liz, New York
Idea: Increase car pool and reduce using all kinds
of packaging (bring own cloth bags).
BALTIMORE
"Outmoded transportation systems that do not recognize new patterns of living and working centered around formerly non core districts."
50%
Co-Creating la
ciudad del futuro
VANCOUVER
Jon, Columbus
ECONOMY
Challenge
"Addressing water contamination issues due to lead and aging infrastructure where 25% of the worlds fresh water exists - the Great Lakes."
Mobility
"City transportation system
in a city with a car culture."
New York
Brooke, New York
Idea
"Seamless bike and subway in NYC."
Challenge
COLUMBUS
6%
Nicolas, New York
Challenge: Rent for small businesses continues to rise.
Tiasia, New York
Diego, Madrid
12.5%
"Lack of multi-modal
transit integration."
Technology
GOVERNANCE
See which challenges were most top of mind
for Smart Cities New York attendees.
Challenge: Traffic is terrible. Potholes are a problem. Illegal construction and lack of cycling lanes.
Mobility
MOBILITY
DETROIT
Challenge
New York
Smart Cities New York attendees let their voice be heard on a variety of important topics facing the future of our cities:
Challenge: Too much traffic on Queens Boulevard due to
Citibike lanes.
New York
New York
New York
Challenge
How can we better scale infrastructure in a coordinated way across utilities to ensure one advancement doesn’t negatively impact another?
Imagine how much more is possible when cities co-create together.
New York
Smart Cities New York
New York
New York
CHICAGO
Housing
"How to regulate and make use of the boom of e-scooters around the city to promote public safety while continuing to promote alternate mobility options."
Challenge
New York
Suzanne, Perth
Paige, Washington D.C.
"Inefficient and outdated public transit infrastructure."
Michelle, New York
Challenge: No sidewalks or bike lanes to school.
6%
Challenge: How to regulate and make use of the boom of e-scooters around the city to promote public safety while continuing to promote alternate mobility options.
"Trucks that must park or double park to pick up or drop off goods would cause less congestion if they did so at hours less prone to high volumes of traffic. Perhaps at night?"
City Possible brings together cities and a united private sector to create more inclusive and sustainable cities.
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New York
Challenge: Traffic
and waste solutions.
Lawrence, New York
Governance
How do we ensure the growth of cities does not create a cost-prohibitive living environment for certain segments of society?
"Too much traffic on Queens Boulevard due to Citibike lanes."
"Ensuring disparate individual utilities coordinate capital investment decisions to enable development."
Challenge
New York
INFRASTRUCTURE
Wilaiporn, Bangkok
NEW HAVEN
Challenge: Urban blight due to population loss leads to vast areas of unused space and low population density. This makes traditional transit solutions ineffective.
New York
PERTH
ENVIRONMENT
New York
Challenge: Water leaks and potholes
ANTWERP
Common Themes
New York
"When transit workers go on strike, bus drivers continued driving and transporting citizens but not charging fares. This puts the pressure on leadership rather than stress on citizens."
Challenge
"Traffic jam and parking."
Challenge: Not enough urban farms.
Tourism
HOUSING
13%
"Safety and space for cyclists sharing the roadways."
BANGKOK
Click on cities below to see challenges and ideas
shared by city leaders around the globe.
William, Detroit
Infrastructure
Inclusion
29%
Challenge: City transportation system in a city with a car culture.
Challenge: Figuring out how to retrofit buildings to utilize only renewables. It is challenging to find cost effective measures when natural gas is so inexpensive.
Challenge
Smart Cities New York
by the numbers
PRISHTINA
INFRASTRUCTURE
Pedro, Boca Raton
ENVIRONMENT
Challenge
"Increase car pool. Reduce using all kinds of packaging (bring own cloth bags)."
Idea
"Roosevelt Island - no integrated approach to public buildings on the island."
New York
Challenge: Traffic jam
and parking.
Challenge
Technology
Challenge
Michael, New York
"Urban blight due to population loss leads to vast areas of unused space and low population density. This makes traditional transit solutions ineffective additionally high poverty levels and unbanked citizens make new mobility solutions less accessible."
New York
"Affordable housing."
Challenge
Milin, New York
Sungmoon, New York
"Urban development is necessary but the mess like traffic jams they create need a solution."
Ties, Antwerp
Challenge
ENVIRONMENT
Challenge
"Not enough
urban farms."
HOUSING
Co-Creating the
City of the Future
"Governance on city regional challenges."
"Separate bike lanes that safely allow bikers and cars to commute together."
WASHINGTON, D.C.
MOBILITY
Dan, New York
Sara, Middletown
Blendi, Prishtina
Vivek, New York
Wasiliki, Washington D.C.
Infrastructure
SEE CHALLENGES
GOVERNANCE
New York
Challenge
Karina, Baltimore
"Green buildings."
New York
"Identification process and user experience through DMV or applying for visas."
TECHNOLOGY
Chuck, Chicago
Challenge
Challenge
"Rent for small businesses continues to rise."
Employment
SEE IDEAS
Qing, New York
Challenge: Safety and
space for cyclists sharing
the roadways.