The New Cities Foundation, a non-profit organization that wants to create more sustainable, dynamic, creative and global cities teamed with Ericsson created a special task force, the Connected Commuting Task Force, to see if there was a positive correlation between the use of smartphone trip planning applications and improving the commuting experience.

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The key question then is how to humanize such mega-cities, the theme of the upcoming New Cities Foundation summit that Sao Paulo is hosting in June. (Full disclosure: I serve on the NCF board of trustees.) The reinvention of Sao Paulo will begin right at its center with projects such as the URBEM Foundation's Casa Paulista.

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