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"The Bluff of Pango and CelloPark Exposed": Our Parking Research Hits National News

Millions of Israelis use parking apps every day. Mako just told them what our research found underneath the convenience — and it's not flattering.

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New Paper in Journal of Urban Technology - Who Really Benefits When You Pay for Parking on Your Phone?

A new study finds that Israel's mobile parking apps generated soaring revenues without cutting parking violations — and traces how private software companies ended up with more power over public infrastructure than the municipalities they serve.

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New Paper in Urban Science - Teaching AI to Read Any City's Sidewalks

A new study asks whether a pedestrian-comfort model trained on one city can be taught to understand another — with just a handful of examples.

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New Paper in the International Journal of Architectural Computing

A new study examines why current methods for evaluating generative urban design tools fall short — and proposes two new ways to assess them.

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