Archinect - News 2024-12-18T20:56:11-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/78231109/letter-from-san-francisco-on-being-an-urban-planner-in-the-tech-world Letter from San Francisco: On Being an Urban Planner in the Tech World Archinect 2013-07-29T19:02:00-04:00 >2013-07-30T13:08:28-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f4/f42ab11c57ae53547114d941efbd25a2?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>&ldquo;Urban Innovation&rdquo; are two words I hear in tandem a lot these days, along with &ldquo;civic hackathon&rdquo; and &ldquo;crowdsourced urbanism.&rdquo; Contrary to what you might think, these buzzwords have not been coined by urbanists attempting to appear more innovative. They&rsquo;ve been coined by tech innovators attempting to be more urbanist.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>