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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. How Technology Facilitates Urban Management. Rapid urbanization is a crisis. Smart cities hope to solve these types of problems.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He wasn't a media star.