Government

What Boston's Snow Crisis Can Teach Us About Solving Problems in New Ways

Cities must learn to leverage more than just the traditional power of their governments.

Heavy equipment works on a mound of snow that has been cleared from city streets at a "snow farm" in Boston, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015.AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

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By Sascha Haselmayer

February 19, 2015 at 10:18 AM EST

It’s like a math problem you got on a test as a kid, or a puzzle game for your iPhone:

Imagine you’re the mayor of Boston. In the last 30 days, your city has seen a whopping 6 feet of snow. How many cubic feet of snow have actually fallen on your city, and where do you put it all?

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