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The Best Food Scene In The World: Technology, Mobility, and Eats at NewCoLA
LA is the most diverse city in the country, with more than 70% of its 265 neighborhoods hitting the middle of the Los Angeles Times’ diversity index. Variety trumps quantity, as the City of Angels...
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LA Ads Up: The City of Angels Is Divine For Adtech
Los Angeles isn’t just having a tech boom, it’s having an adtech boom. In 2014 alone, LA saw new adtech companies launch at a rate 188% higher than 2013. Even ad:tech, an adtech industry conference,...
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Explore Modern Filmmaking At NewCoLA
While modern Los Angeles is most certainly a film industry town, the nature of the business is rapidly changing. Many of LA’s entertainment companies have gone digital, relying on high tech to make...
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Cross Town Traffic: Getting Through, Over, and Under LA
LA’s working hard to solve its sizeable traffic snarls, and alternative transportation has made a comeback as a result. In 2008, LA County passed measure R, a half-cent sales tax designed to finance...
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LA’s Top Class for Women-Run Orgs
An estimated 36% of US businesses are owned by women, up 8% since 2002. Why are we seeing more female-led businesses? For one, family roles are shifting as more dads opt to stay home with the kids....
View ArticleStartup Accelerators Are Working For Cities
The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings Institution has mapped the location and charted the continued growth of startup accelerators in metropolitan areas around the U.S. They’ve grown 50 percent...
View ArticleSXSW and Civic Engagement
SXSW Interactive is about tech, of course, but President Obama’ was there to talk civic engagement. The President stated at one point during his interview with Texas Tribune Editor Evan Smith,...
View ArticleBusiness Leads Change in Georgia, Encryption Goes Upscale, and Where To Work
This Is What Businesses Making a Difference Looks Like Anyone who’s grown cynical regarding the impact business can have on the lives of citizens should look toward Georgia, where governor Nathan Deal...
View ArticleWhy Solar Panels Matter, Subsidizing the Internet, and What Makes Vibrant Cities
Why Solar Panels Matter People put solar panels up on the roof everyday; MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman digs deep and rethinks what’s really going on. He describes the social framework for his...
View ArticleSh*tty Data, Bankers on the Bread Lines, and Tesla’s Shot Clock
The Truth Beneath Our Cities If you want to understand a city, dig into its sewage. That’s what researchers at MIT’s Senseable City Lab do, turning sewage into data that reveals multitudes about a...
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