{"450411":{"#nid":"450411","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech joins other universities in part of $160 million \u201cSmart Cities\u201d Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/09\/14\/fact-sheet-administration-announces-new-%E2%80%9Csmart-cities%E2%80%9D-initiative-help\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EObama administration announced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a $160 million \u201cSmart Cities\u201d Initiative that will put federal research and more than 25 new tech-centric collaborations to work helping cities tackle some of their most challenging problems regarding everything from resilience to public safety and transportation.\u0026nbsp;One of the initiative\u2019s programs is the MetroLab Network, aimed at improving American cities through university-city partnerships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA $1 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (which also provides funding support to Next City) will help launch the MetroLab Network, which will see more than 20 city-university partnerships working on 60 Smart City projects. The University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, in Philadelphia, and Georgia Tech and Georgia State University, in Atlanta, are four of the universities on board.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-09-22 09:09:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:44","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"georgia senator","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nextcity.org\/daily\/entry\/obama-smart-cities-program-cities-university-partnerships","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"141331","name":"metrolab network"},{"id":"15284","name":"Obama Administration"},{"id":"167987","name":"smart cities"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}