From polis — TEDx Tackles the Future of Cities

Photo of the Manhattan Bridge leading to DUMBO is from Nowy Dziennik.

Cities around the world are constantly throwing up new questions: How can we ensure adequate housing for all? How can we live more sustainably? How can we live harmoniously in increasingly multiethnic environments? The questions are almost limitless, and it can be hard for those in the urban field to keep up.

I live in DUMBO, a Brooklyn neighborhood named for its location "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass." As one of the world's most concentrated areas of technology, design and urban startups, DUMBO has been a veritable laboratory of answers to urban questions. Read more: polis: TEDx Tackles the Future of Cities