“The adoption of digital technologies will change the face of cities as surely as any previous technology, whether the railway, the car or the skyscraper,” states a recent report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). “However, rather than one huge ‘meteor strike’ impact, digital will create many individual heterogeneous changes, clustered into trends that, collectively, may have the same level of impact,” the Urban Technology Framework continues. The Urban Land Institute is a global, member-driven organization comprising more than 40,000 real estate and urban development professionals dedicated to “providing leadership” in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. In this paper, the ULI identifies 12 key trends that combine to create new opportunities to improve our cities. The ULI notes three factors that will drive patterns of digital change we see in cities. First, new digital technologies offer “the raw materials of digital change” by creating the platforms upon […]