Downtown Los Angeles

Smart Cities Technology Is Appealing, But How Will It Get Financed?

Local governments already have challenges with funding their existing infrastructure, raising questions on how to make investments in smart technologies a reality.

  • By Bill Lucia
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Kansas City, Missouri.

Navigator Award Finalists: Department and Agency Leadership

As we count up to 50, we're rolling out finalists 11-20 next.

  • By Michael Grass
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Route Fifty Roadmap: A Dispatch From a Remote U.S.-Canada Border Post

  • By Timothy B. Clark

Navigator Award Finalist: Tim Krall, Deputy Director, Ohio Department of Administrative Services

  • By Dave Nyczepir

Editors’ Picks

As Child Welfare Agencies Turn to Data Analytics ‘We Have to Be Really Careful’
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Cities Have the 'Ability to Coalescence That Bottom-Up Movement' to Fix Racial Inequalities
Dave Nyczepir —
Empowering a Smarter Community Through GIS
Trisha Brush, Special to Route Fifty —
Remember the Human Element When Implementing Smart City Technologies
Michael Grass —
How Data Drives Government
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