Four ways urban work fails after the approval
The gap between mandate and machinery has a shape. After enough reps, you can see it coming.
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Container moves, and what lives underneath them
A transit-payments platform in California. A split-entity restructure in Nairobi. A water affordability program in Philadelphia. Three cases, and the gap between structure and function.
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