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Urban Planning in the iPhone Age
A new generation of apps make life easier for urban planners and urban dwellers
No one needs a good app quite like an urban planner.
Sure, smart phones are useful for locating the nearest Starbucks or ruling on bar trivia. But the next wave of mobile applications do more than that—they collect massive amounts of data about how people live, where they travel and what they want to see in their neighborhoods. And they connect all of that with the officials in position to make decisions.