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337. How to Build a Smart City

Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio
Episode • Jun 7, 2018 • 39m

We are in the midst of a historic (and wholly unpredicted) rise in urbanization. But it's hard to retrofit old cities for the 21st century. Enter Dan Doctoroff. The man who helped modernize New York City — and tried to bring the Olympics there — is now C.E.O. of a Google-funded startup that is building, from scratch, the city of the future.

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