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Reinventing Paris
By Carlo Ratti - May 09,2022
PARIS — When I first met Jean-Louis Missika, then-Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of architecture and urban planning, in 2014, he welcomed me with an urgent question: How can we fast-track urban innovation?
Putting Rio de Janeiro on the map
By Carlo Ratti - Jan 23,2022
BOSTON  —  The future of urban planning may be in Brazil’s second-largest city. But it is not along Ipanema’s glittering waterfront, overlooked by some of the most expensive real estate in Latin America.
Can Barcelona create a new kind of tourist economy?
By Carlo Ratti - Dec 15,2021
BOSTON — When I first began visiting Barcelona in the early 2000s, it was a dazzling metropolis — optimistic, lively, progressive, and teeming with young people from all over Europe. It balanced its Catalan pride with an openness to the world.
How Melbourne rescheduled its future
By Carlo Ratti - Nov 14,2021
BOSTON — Melbourne is not the most distinctive of Australia’s cities. It does not have Sydney’s sandy beaches or Brisbane’s rugged, “Crocodile Dundee” appeal.
Helsinki's climate moonshot
By Carlo Ratti - Oct 18,2021
BOSTON — Among the many misleading beliefs about climate change, one in particular has too often gone unchallenged. This is the idea that temperature increases will negatively affect only warmer regions, while making polar climates milder and more pleasant.
Reimagining Brasília's modernism
By Carlo Ratti - Sep 06,2021
BRASÍLIA — Sixty-one years ago, Brasília emerged from Brazil’s hinterland. Developed on an empty savanna between 1956 and 1960, the city that replaced Rio de Janeiro as the country’s capital was a joint endeavor between urban planner Lúcio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer.
Singapore is shaping the future of mobility
By Carlo Ratti - Aug 15,2021
BOSTON — Tiziano Terzani was no fan of Singapore. The Florentine writer and journalist explored every corner of Asia. He had witnessed the fall of Saigon to the People’s Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong, and the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.
Reimagining the office
By Carlo Ratti - Jun 17,2020
BOSTON — Last month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would allow its employees, currently working from home in accordance with social-distancing protocols, to stay there for good.
Reversing the death of Venice
By Carlo Ratti - Nov 20,2019
VENICE — Some of the worst flooding in Venice’s history has submerged some of the historic city’s renowned cultural sites, including St Mark’s Basilica on Piazza San Marco.
Flights of unmanned fancy
By Carlo Ratti - Nov 04,2017
Few pieces of modern hardware have inspired as much excitement as the drone.While non-military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were initially marketed as purely recreational gadgets, it has not taken long for entrepreneurs and industrial giants to seize on the endless possibiliti

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