Carlo Ratti on Cities, Sensing, and Breaking from the Past

<p>In this episode Professor Goldsmith interviews Carlo Ratti, professor of Urban Technologies and the founder of the groundbreaking <a href="https://senseable.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Senseable City Lab at MIT</a>.  They discuss new frontiers in urban data, edge computing, and rethinking the relationship between the environment, the urban environment and health. Ratti also explains why city leaders have to break from the past and why "best practices" are perpetuating old ideas.</p><p>Music credit: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/the-lost-files/summer-man">Summer-Man by Ketsa</a></p><p><strong>About Data-Smart City Solutions</strong></p><p>Housed at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, we work to catalyze the adoption of data projects on the local government level by serving as a central resource for cities interested in this emerging field. We highlight best practices, top innovators, and promising case studies while also connecting leading industry, academic, and government officials. Our research focus is the intersection of government and data, ranging from open data and predictive analytics to civic engagement technology. To learn more <a href="https://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">visit us online</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DataSmartCities" target="_blank">follow us on Twitter</a>. </p>