In this roundtable Anthony Townsend and Benjamin De La Peña take us on a guided tour of A Planet of Civic Laboratories: The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion, a ten-year forecast commissioned in 2010 to inform philanthropic efforts to use big data as a tool to help the urban poor.
Urban Tech Hub Director Michael Samuelian will lead a conversation with local real estate, transportation, and economic development leaders on the future of enhanced urban systems and New York City’s neighborhoods.
This session will draw upon Anthony Townsend's 2020 book Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car to reveal what we can learn from past technological transformations of urban transportation as we consider the prospects for digital mobility markets and how automation could radically reshape roles, rights, and responsibilities for everyone involved.