Topic collections

Every category blends features, dispatches, toolkits and playlists curated with residents, founders, researchers and policy makers. Use these guides to navigate climate-ready cities, mobility equity, workplace rituals and civic finance.

Urban signal

Cooling corridors, markets and micro forests transforming overheated streets into resilient commons.

Inside the cooling corridor playbook

  • Feature: Cooling corridors stitched block by block.
  • Dispatch: Shade-first kiosks powered by time banks.
  • Toolkit: Facilitation agendas for neighborhood assemblies.
  • Playlist: Evening rituals curated by residents.
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Mobility equity

Night networks shaped with couriers, micro hubs for active modes, and dashboards tracking access.

Dispatch

Seoul's midnight redesign

Mapping safe transfer points with night-shift workers and cafe owners.

Toolkit

Equity dashboard schema

Data structures for tracking commute time, wage, safety and wellbeing.

Audio

Episode 41

Couriers describe the rituals that keep them grounded between deliveries.

Event

Mobility equity clinic

Live critique of city dashboards with residents and technologists.

Future of work

Ritual studios, shared commons and contract archetypes keeping distributed teams cohesive.

Teams of teams toolkit

  • Workshop deck: handshake contracts for cross-squad platforms.
  • Audio essay: Rebuilding ceremony in remote-first companies.
  • Template: Async daily brief ritual to align global time zones.
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Civic capital

How sandboxes align founders, regulators and residents while derisking climate tech experiments.

Guide

Capital stack explainer

Templates for mixing municipal bonds, philanthropy and cooperative revenue.

Interview

Q&A with Bruna Teixeira

Designing policy sandboxes that embed founders inside city labs.

Case study

Atlas Labs corridor financing

Time-banking and revenue sharing strategies keeping assets maintained.

Resource

Funding agreements pack

Download sample MOUs, revenue split calculators and governance models.

Upcoming gatherings

Participate in labs, clinics and salons to exchange playbooks with peers across continents.

June 18 · Porto Alegre Cooling corridor residency

Field walks, shadow mapping, mist choreography and cooperative finance workshops.

July 8 · Remote Mobility equity dashboard clinic

Bring your datasets for live feedback with riders, planners and civic technologists.

July 29 · Mexico City Ritual studio lab

Co-design ceremonies and commons for hybrid teams inside shared creative spaces.

FAQ

How often do collections update?

We refresh each category at least twice per month, adding new dispatches, interviews and toolkits contributed by readers and field correspondents.

Can I pitch a story or toolkit?

Yes. Email pitches@fluxdigest.com with a short outline, the stakeholders you’ll interview and the outcome you want readers to replicate.

Do you host private sessions?

Subscribers gain access to quarterly closed-door clinics where we replay field recordings, review research decks and pressure-test policies with peer cities.