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What NASA Can Teach Urban Planners
“As we go and work there, we’re going to live there.”
Space is the final frontier, as the newly revived Star Trek TV series will surely remind us. But there may be lessons in its exploration for cities right here on Earth.
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is just a short distance from Richmond, California, where urban innovators gathered for a conference called Meeting of the Minds last month. So Rosalind Grymes, deputy director of NASA’s Ames Partnership Directorate, paid a visit to the conference about urban planning and smart cities to offer a few ideas from the space agency about life on Earth.