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Cities around the world face rapid urbanization, economic constraints, and environmental concerns. To address these challenges, city administrators are turning to technology, especially the Internet of Things (IoT), to digitize city operations. Unfortunately, smart city technologies pose significant challenges of their own. Smart city IoT services include smart lighting, smart parking, intelligent traffic management systems, smart waste management, video surveillance with analytics, and real-time monitoring of pollution and air quality. They can help make cities more accessible, safer, greener, and livable. Follow this link to learn more.
Sourced from: Government Technology
Posted In: Health and Wellness in the City, Innovation, SmartCity, Thriving Across the Lifespan
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The strength of American cities, and the nation as a whole, depends on generating inclusive growth for people of all races, ethnicities, and incomes. Yet even in our most economically vibrant cities, not all residents are benefiting from or contributing to that growth, resulting in stark racial and economic disparities that are even more extreme in distressed communities. In response, local leaders across the country are innovating new strategies to promote inclusive growth. Many are producing positive but isolated outcomes. To deliver on the ultimate goal of shared prosperity, they hypothesize that cities could benefit from additional resources and support, including the opportunities to learn from one another, secure unlikely allies, and advance scaled solutions within states, across states, and at higher levels of government. Follow this link to learn more.
Sourced from: The Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation
Posted In: Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Innovation, Urban Serving Universities, Urban-Rural Connection
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We all know fresh fruits and vegetables are key to good health. Yet many low-income neighborhoods have limited access to fresh produce. That’s why programs such as the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the National School Lunch Program are vital to the health of communities. Knowing how many children are in an area helps federal, state, and local officials evaluate funding for nutrition programs. “It’s important that a child is adequately nourished before attempting any activity,” said Betti Wiggins, officer of nutrition services for the Houston Independent School District, the nation’s seventh largest school district. Every day, the district serves 280,000 meals to students, she said. SNAP, previously known as Food Stamps, provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budgets of families "so they can purchase healthy food and move toward self-sufficiency,” according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which manages the program. Follow this link to learn more.
Sourced from: United States Census Bureau
As the number of cities building citywide afterschool systems continues to grow, a new report, “Using Data to Strengthen Afterschool Planning, Management, and Strategy” from The Wallace Foundation examines eight cities that established a management information system (MIS) to design and support the use of data in afterschool programs; including Denver, Colorado. The National League of Cities (NLC) spoke with Maxine Quintana, the Director of Out-of-School-Time Initiatives for the city and county of Denver, Colorado. Quintana supports the Denver Afterschool Alliance (DAA), the citywide intermediary working to increase access to quality afterschool programs. Follow this link to learn more.
Sourced from: Cities Speak.
Posted In: 4-H Youth Development, City CED, Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Family & Consumer Sciences, Innovation, Thriving Across the Lifespan
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A group of 40 volunteers spent the weekend in Hamilton winterizing a community garden, cleaning its raised boxes, tending to its berry beds, and trimming its trees and shrubs. The garden is part of the Hamilton Urban Garden System (HUGS). It donates all the food it grows to the Hamilton community, in Butler County, Ohio. The area around the HUGS garden is reportedly considered a food desert. The nearest grocery store is almost a mile away, leaving many in the area without readily available, nutritious food options. The HUGS garden aims to solve that problem - and it’s making a dent. Last summer, the garden reportedly produced 1,500 lbs. of fresh fruits and vegetables for the community. Follow this link to learn more.
Sourced from: Fox 19
Springboro’s 62-acre city center is the latest place in the area to become a new “urban village.” Beginning on February 2, the area is to be redeveloped using standards established in meetings over the last four months and intended to make it once again a central place where people will come to shop, eat, walk, and gather for special events. The urban village concept also underlies plans to redevelop the former location of the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, as well as the Dayton Mall area and other projects around the region. Follow this link to learn more.
Sourced from: Dayton Daily News.
Posted In: Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Innovation, Thriving Across the Lifespan
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Summit on Extension in Ohio's Urban Communities:
"Strengthen Ohio by Strengthening Cities and Urban-Rural Connections" will be held at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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To better understand and address:
- Real-life context of Extension work in urban communities (scale, diversity, complexity, urban-rural interface);
- Alignment with the National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL) Framework and Integration with university, college, and other converging interests;
- OSU Extension's strategies to be relevant locally, responsive statewide, recognized nationally; and
- Strengthen Ohio by strengthening cities and urban-rural connections.
Posted In: 4-H Youth Development, Ag & Natural Resources, Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Environmental Quality, Family & Consumer Sciences, Health and Wellness in the City, Innovation, Meetings/Conferences, Sustainable Food Systems, Thriving Across the Lifespan, Urban Serving Universities, Urban-Rural Connection, Workforce Development
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