Regulation

This article originally appeared in Vital City. When Mayor Zohran Mamdani created a new Office of Mass Engagement, promising to listen more closely to the needs of everyday New Yorkers, it was a welcome first step toward earning the public’s trust. But as...

The city of Milwaukee has long known it has one of the highest rates of childhood lead poisoning in the country. According to Tyler Weber, the deputy commissioner of the City of Milwaukee Health Department’s (MHD) environmental health division, MHD...

How can data and analytics be used to enhance city operations? What kinds of operations-enhancing questions have cities asked and answered with data and analytics? The catalog below is an ongoing, regularly-updated resource for those interested in knowing...

April 14, 2020 Regulation This article originally appeared in Governing. As more and more digitally enabled services begin doing business in cities, public officials whose job is to regulate them struggle to apply outdated rules with obsolete processes...

February 20, 2020 Mobility As new innovations in mobility have entered the marketplace, local government leaders have struggled to adapt their regulatory framework to adequately address new challenges or the needs of the consumers of these new services...

December 5, 2018 A New City O/S This is part of a series of features to highlight key lessons from A New City O/S by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman. Key Insights Government has long been construed as a highly routinized organization, slow to evolve...

August 31, 2016 The Responsive City This article originally appeared in the Journal of Law & Public Affairs , Volume I, Issue I, Summer 2016. Introduction: Trust in Local Government “Local” matters now as never before. Prominent voices across the academic...

August 17, 2016 Regulation This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith's Better, Faster, Cheaper blog on Governing.com. When Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana in 2014, state officials knew they...

August 20, 2015 Regulation This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. In cities around the country, we're seeing the beginning of fundamental change in how governments discharge their regulatory...