From New York to Seattle, voters have swept in a new generation of progressive mayors. But how are they going to deliver on their ambitious agendas? There is much to learn from the city of Boston and a consortium of universities called the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI). I talk with the co-founder of BARI, Daniel T. O'Brien, about his new book The Pointillistic City and how all cities can emulate his highly participatory data-driven approach to evolving complex systems.
