‘Office of New Urban Mechanics’ Nudges City Gov to Take Risks

Boston’s Office of New Urban Mechanics is a civic innovation incubator and R&D lab. It’s also the city’s “risk team, the failure team,” says co-founder Nigel Jacob.

April 28, 2019 · 1 min read

The Office of New Urban Mechanics sits within a nexus of decision-makers on the sixth floor of Boston’s City Hall. At any given time, Mayor Marty Walsh, his chief of operations, or his head of policy might stroll across the hall into the office, its walls plastered with…

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