May 25, 2022 | permalink
My writing-and-sparring partner Lev Kushner and I were invited to virtually present this morning to the Digital Age Tech Summit in Istanbul. Riffing off our Bloomberg CityLab essay on “the dark side of 15-minute delivery,” we mounted a case on how cities should try to regulate these services while offering better alternatives. It might all be a moot point, however. With the spigot of cheap money turned off, “quick commerce” companies like Gorillas and Getir are firing staff, cutting their losses, and scrambling to find a path to profitably, the threat to cities might be passing as quickly as it emerged.
» Folllow me on Twitter.
» Email me.
» See upcoming events.
Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a partner at the geo-strategic and climate advisory firm FutureMap, the senior fellow for applied research and foresight at NewCities, a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative.
May 29, 2022
CBC Chatter: June 8th @ 2 PM EDT
May 25, 2022
Get on Board: Learning from Informal Transportation in the Global South
May 25, 2022
The Fast and Furious Rise and Fall of 15-Minute Delivery
May 15, 2022
Reaping the Whirlwind: My Spring Speaking Travel
----- | January 1, 2022
CityLab | December 7, 2021
The Dark Side of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery
Fast Company | June 2021
Why the Great Lakes need to be the center of our climate strategy
Fast Company | March 2020
How to design a smart city that’s built on empowerment–not corporate surveillance
URBAN-X | December 2019
CityLab | December 10, 2018
The State of Play: Connected Mobility in San Francisco, Boston, and Detroit
Harvard Business Review | September 24, 2018
Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces
CityLab | July 2018
The State of Play: Connected Mobility + U.S. Cities
Medium | May 1, 2017
Fast Company | January 19, 2017
The Collaboration Software That’s Rejuvenating The Young Global Leaders Of Davos
The Guardian | January 13, 2017
What If Uber Kills Public Transport Instead of Cars
Backchannel | January 4, 2017
The Office of the Future Is… an Office
New Cities Foundation | October 2016
Now Arriving: A Connected Mobility Roadmap for Public Transport
Inc. | October 2016
Why Every Business Should Start in a Co-Working Space
Popular Mechanics | May 11, 2016
Can the World’s Worst Traffic Problem Be Solved?
The New Republic | January/February 2016
Fast Company | September 22, 2015
We Spent Two Weeks Wearing Employee Trackers: Here’s What We Learned
Fast Company | September 21, 2015
HR Meets Data: How Your Boss Will Monitor You To Create The Quantified Workplace
Inc. | March 2015
Which Contacts Should You Keep in Touch With? Let This Software Tell You
Inc. | March 2015