WHAT TYPE OF CITY-MAKER WILL YOU BE IN 2018?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It's been an exciting year for the State of Place team, and we've accomplished so much in 2017:
Participated in two highly competitive accelerator programs: MassChallenge in Boston and Kickstart in Switzerland.
Released our interactive heat map (beta).
Our CEO Dr. Mariela Alfonzo was honored as a NewCities Associate Fellow.
Exciting media features: Parksify podcast, Winnipeg Free Press newspaper feature, 680 CJOB radio interview, Funding Sage spotlight.
Expanded our team: CTO Andy Likuski, Technical Product Manager Alli Torban, and Sales Manager Michael Anthony.
Most importantly, welcomed new clients!
We're excited to help more cities create happier and healthier places in 2018 - come join forces with us! And if the start of 2018 has put you in a reflective mood, take this fun quiz to reveal what type of City-Maker you are...
We are excited to relaunch our Power of Place blog series, and this one is special! Written by our intern Isaiah Wood, it is a sequel to his brother’s 2018 post “On my Own (Two Feet)” where he reflected on the built environment of his beloved town Brookline and comparing it to his experience when he moved to Pitzer College in California. Isaiah decided to revisit that blog post and did his own analysis for Brookline this time against Amherst. Read more about this data-driven assessment that validates his lived experience across both places!
It’s finally back! Check out lucky 8th annual urbanists gift guide, with 11 amazing ideas, sourced from the State of Place team! So happy to bring back this super popular holiday guide after a brief hiatus!
It’s (finally) back!! Our 6th edition of our Thankful for Place blog series. After a brief hiatus, we couldn’t be more excited to share with you the many places for which the State of Place team is grateful. We strive to quantify the exponential power of place every day - but as Thanksgiving approaches, we can’t help but stop and reflect on some of the most special places that we carry close to our hearts. We wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving and hope you are able to spend time with a place - and people - whom you hold dear!
We are thrilled to share a little piece of joy with you in the midst of the turmoil….we once again have the honor of being named finalists in Colorado’s Smart City Alliance’s Connected Colorado Challenge (C2) as part of the Safe Streets focus area. We have proposed to apply our AI-driven, built environment data collection and vehicle collision forecasting model to help cities prioritize urban design interventions most poised (from an evidence-based perspective) to help save lives as well as identify and redesign near-miss intersections before any more tragic, preventable loss of life. Download the full proposal and powerpoint via our blog.
We are over the moon excited to introduce you to our new strategic partner - 17 Asset Management (17AM), capital connoisseurs who help place-based investors do well by doing good. Together, we will help citymakers and the investment community unleash the power of place - and capital - to foster more just, thriving places!
Our 5th annual Ultimate Gift Guide for Citymakers is out and chock full of inspiring, thoughtful, and whimsical gifts to get you through the rest of 2020. Check out these 13 awesome gift options, no matter what and when you’re celebrating this year!
On this our 5th edition of our grateful for places post, the State of Place family shares why they’re thankful for place this year in particular, and invite you to share your own expressions of gratitude for the places you hold dear.
It’s Valentine’s Day - and we’re feeling the PLACE love!! As per always! So we’d thought we bring you one of our most beloved posts - about a data-driven love story, if you will: how Street Plan’s awesome tactical urbanism “makeover” brought serious love to Asheville, North Carolina. We just nerdified the love a bit with some Os and 1s - but no surprise there. We promise you’ll love this transformation story. This street do-over will not only tug on your heartstrings, it will also show that PLACE love also pays - and quite handsomely at that! So dig in - and fall in love! :)
Last week, we compiled a list of awesome gifts for the citylover and datageeks in your life. This week, we profiled five awesome, walkable shopping districts, where you can actually shop for some of these gifts - or just walk away the calories you’ve already been piling up using our very own State of Place analysis. Check out which places made the cut and how you can use data to make your place more walkable and livable - and maybe even be profiled here next year, just in time for the holidays!
State of Place has received approximately $1.7 million in Phase II funding from USDOT’s SBIR program to advance ACES. The project will expand our AI-powered street-level data and sensing capabilities and enhance our platform so agencies can specify the mobility objectives they want to achieve - and under what conditions - and the software identifies what to change, where, and why to deliver better streets - and places.