Giving Compass' Take:

• As technological advancements in the automotive industry lead to autonomous vehicles, many cities already are designing new city spaces that cater to pedestrians first, then cars.

• How will an increasingly pedestrian-focused city affect the economy? How will the automotive industry respond to this emerging trend?

• Here's an article on what America will look like with self-driving cars. 

Does your city have a scooter infestation? Connected, motorized scooters from companies like Lime, Bird, Spin, Skip and more, plus similar dockless bicycles, have for the past year littered streets in major cities across the US and generated heated debates over their usefulness. Regardless of your opinion of the machines, their success tells us one incredibly important thing about our cities: it’s time to decide how we’ll reshape them.

Dockless scooters and bicycles are what’s called a last-mile mobility option. They’re not meant to take folks miles across city lines so much as from a commuter parking lot, subway or bus stop to your office.

Cars are what take most of us from home to work and back, and our cities and streets are laid out to make that several-to-many-mile journey as easy as possible. Unfortunately, we’ve prioritized cars over all other modes of travel to an extreme degree. Far less attention is given to making walking, bicycling or scootering possible — let alone safe — in urban corridors, making our cities cramped and dangerous.

Read the full article about city layouts by Kate Migon at Smart Cities Dive