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What's Behind the Grumbling Over TED's City 2.0
Why some urbanists are skeptical of the conference innovator's plans to crowdsource the city of the future.
The minds behind the TED conference have decided to focus their tech-savvy and well-heeled efforts on improving the city. As we’ve previously written, the conference announced recently that its annual TED Prize would be dedicated to bringing about “the City 2.0.”
The $100,000 prize was formally announced last week at the annual TED conference in Long Beach, though the individuals who will take home the cash are still TBA. Instead, TED unveiled a new website that aims to crowdsource ideas on city-focused projects and award mini-grants to enable the best ones. As Anthony Flint reported for Cities: