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Yes, here in Hamilton, Ontario our local start-up hacker community is pretty involved in the local urbanist scene. It's a sharp contrast from the usual software geek reputation for being callous libertarians.

The new push for open data is a big example - local hackers demanding that governments open up their datasets (especially transit-related ones) so that the hacker community can develop software for local users.

I'm from DC and start ups here are growing super fast. Thanks to many incubators and the hacker community here.