What will inspire and connect cities of the future?

At our core, we are linked together by the stories that we collectively tell. How can we create experiences that can bind us to each other, even as our technologies, economics and cultures are increasingly diverse and challenging?

The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrow's hybrid digital-physical environment. Today's Facebook will be complemented by tomorrow's Placebook.

Beyond the green economy is the new economy, which I believe will be "people powered" and leverage the excess capacity that we find all around us. I'd put Google, Flickr, Wikipedia, and eBay into this category of companies that leverage individual's excess capacity.

The majority of us live in cities now, and the global percentage is growing fast. In fact, it is estimated that one million people move into the world’s cities each week.

Popular literature and many high-tech corporations tout “intelligent” and “smart” cities, referring to the wizardry of pervasive electronic connections. Yet wired cities are only the trappings of smartness; they sometimes amount merely to dressing a pauper in prince’s clothing.

The Greenhouse By Joost sets a new precedent for designing and operating better hospitality venues and public spaces.

Citizens and governments around the world are learning quickly that they can only solve problems by working together as equals. Government is moving from being a vendor of services, to a platform of co-creation.

Five billion people in the world today have no access to the Internet. A large part of these citizens live in developing countries and marginalized communities. What are the models that have worked to bridge this type of digital iliteracy gap? What are the costs of large scale programs?