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Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti

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Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, is Co-Founder of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati.

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  1. Reinventing Paris
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    Reinventing Paris

    May 5, 2022 Carlo Ratti touts an urban-planning initiative that relies on the interplay between the virtual and physical worlds.

  2. Where Is Dubai Leading Us?
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    Where Is Dubai Leading Us?

    Mar 4, 2022 Carlo Ratti questions the model the city hopes to set for emerging urban centers around the world.

  3. Putting Rio de Janeiro on the Map
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    Putting Rio de Janeiro on the Map

    Jan 18, 2022 Carlo Ratti highlights urban planners’ use of laser scanning to modernize the city’s notorious favelas.

  4. Cities and the Climate-Data Gap
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    Cities and the Climate-Data Gap

    Jan 13, 2022 Robert Muggah & Carlo Ratti remind local governments and urban planners that they can’t manage what they can’t measure.

  5. Can Barcelona Create a New Kind of Tourist Economy?
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    Can Barcelona Create a New Kind of Tourist Economy?

    Dec 15, 2021 Carlo Ratti considers how tourism-dependent economies can grow without straining infrastructure and alienating locals.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

    predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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