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Take China, which for decades tried to combine a decentralized market economy with centralized political oversight of a few crucial statistics, notably GDP. Local officials could get promoted if their regions saw particularly rapid growth. But Beijing’s limited quantified vision offered them little incentive to tackle festering issues such as corruption, debt, and pollution. Unsurprisingly, local officials often manipulated the statistics or pursued policies that boosted GDP in the short term while leaving the long-term problems for their successors.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
With an existing sidewalk network of over 4,000 miles, the City of Kansas City chose Alta’s Civic Analytics team to develop a data-driven approach to help them answer the question “If we have a certain amount to spend, where should we spend it to achieve our goals?”
Building Community Connections in Kansas City’s Sidewalk Strategy
Alta
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginnings from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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