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Data Analytics: The Key to Delivering Smart Cities
Smart cities are interconnected networks of devices that collect, store, share, and communicate data all with an aim…
Zero Emissions Areas Tackle Multiple City Struggles: Why Aren’t They Everywhere?
A zero emissions area is a unique example of a climate solution that addresses urban congestion and pollution…
How The Internet Of Things Is Building Smarter Cities
Powered by data, the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping our society for the better. Internet of Things…
How Communications Can Power Smart Cities
Modern communication technologies have been around for two decades or more and while there have been some incredibly…
How To Launch Bids To Participate In The Building Of Smart Cities
While the internet of things, and smart cities, have been popping up in the news for around half…
Protecting Children’s Data Privacy In The Smart City
The devices that we use have unique identifiers. With cross-browser fingerprinting, the data we generate as users isn’t…
Smart Cities Could Give The Visually Impaired A New Outlook On Urban Life
Travelling to work, meeting friends for a catch-up or just doing some shopping are often taken for granted…
New Wave Of Smart Cities Has Arrived – And They’re Nothing Like Science Fiction
An abandoned mine shaft beneath the town of Mansfield, England is an unlikely place to shape the future…
Smart Cities Aim To Make Urban Life More Efficient – But For Citizens’ Sake They Need To Slow Down
All over the world, governments, institutions and businesses are combining technologies for gathering data, enhancing communications and sharing…
How To Turn A Car Town Into A Cycling City
As the home of Royal Philips Electronics for more than 125 years, the southern Netherlands city of Eindhoven…
Why Are So Many Government Projects Late And Over Budget?
Ironically, it can happen because managers skip steps in an effort to go faster. State and local projects…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2018
Note: Data for 2019 available here: https://citi.io/2019/06/27/the-top-50-smart-cities-in-the-world-2019/ The IESE Business School in Barcelona has released the data for the…
With Smart Cities, Your Every Step Will Be Recorded
Modern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data. This includes mobile phones but also objects…
It’s Time To Regulate ‘Smart City’ Technology, Too
This isn’t just about Facebook: When Google is building cities and cars are turning into data-harvesting machines, the…
What Would The Ultimate Child-Friendly City Look Like?
The reality for many urban children is too much time spent indoors playing on smartphones – but a…
Smart Cities That Are Bastions For Tech Jobs, 2018
Smart city growth is at a tipping point, and there are plenty of jobs in security, analytics,…
Who Wins When A City Gets Smart?
Last year, Columbus, Ohio, won a $50 million grant for high-tech transportation innovation, with a promise to help…
5 Reasons How Smart Cities Will Fail Us
Emergent technologies are poised to radically change how we work and live. They will transform our cities and…
The World’s Greenest City Out Of Dreams, Oil, Pearls, And Sand.
A decade ago Dubai had one of the largest ecological footprints of any city in the world. By…
Why Culture Should Drive City Planning
In my view, while infrastructure and services are necessary for environmental health, it is culture that provides identity,…
A Smart City Is, Because Its People Are.
By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in mega-cities. How all those people…
Smart Cities Is Not Enough, It Needs To Be Smarter Or Else
As a planet, we have some serious climate targets to meet in the coming years. The Paris Agreement,…
Top 10 Urban Projects Made For People, By Its People
Take a close look at 10 of the Best Urban Projects in the World. I’ve always been fond of…
Raising The Bar For Smart Cities In Singapore
Government-deployed sensors will collect and coordinate an unprecedented amount of data on daily life in the city. This…
The Anti-Patterns Of The Digitally Connected City
Popular visions of the “smart city” promise that with digital technology the power of the city “as a…
The Top 3 Smart City Trends To Expect In 2016
Predictions from research firm IDC revealed three particularly interesting trends emerging around the smart cities movement. For the…
Why Smart Cities, As It Is Portrayed, Is Not Always Really Smart
Digital tracking systems – The smart city ‘is a promise to improve quality of life, even in Dutch…
How Christchurch Returned The City To Its Cycling Roots
After the 2011 disaster, residents were asked what they wanted from the city once known as ‘Cyclopolis’. They…
How Charlotte Takes Action For Their Smart City Initiative
There’s been much discussion lately about the potential of “smart cities” and connecting data to help make communities…
Playable Cities : The City That Plays Together, Stays Together
Forget about smart cities, Playable City ideas – like Bristol’s water slide or its temporary play streets –…
What Is The City That Never Sleeps? All Of Them!
One’s experience of a city at night is always singular and intimate, especially when visiting for the first…
DIY Guide : How To Build A City From Scratch
From Songdo, South Korea to Lavasa, India via Egypt’s unnamed new capital, everywhere you look it seems someone’s…
Barcelona’s Quest To Become The Smartest City Of Them All
Barcelona has been named the Smartest City in the world for 2015, according to a February publication…
Would You Share Private Data For A Better City?
In the 1950s, a decade after he outlined the theory of the Big Bang and the expanding…
Why Our Cities Need Smart Transport
The reform of urban mobility remains one of the biggest challenges confronting policy makers around the world. According…
What Will A Smart City Look Like In The Future?
By 2050 there will be five billion urbanites, but, with pressure on resources and climate disruption, how will…
San Diego : Smart Projects For Smart Cities
A National Geographic series on smart cities will showcase San Diego in an hour-long documentary scheduled to start…
Smart Is As Smart Does. Stupid Just Does Nothing.
[infobox]I never realised how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like.[/infobox] There’s…
Bristol Is Open : The Smart City Of The Future
The city of Bristol has announced a multi-million pound experiment to create the smart city of the future. Work is…
Is Your City Too Smart For You?
Could pursuing the rational, clinical urbanism of smart cities destroy the charming chaos of traditional city life without…
The Smartest Cities Rely On Citizen Cunning And Unglamorous Technology
Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing…
Germany’s Designer City
On the brick wall of a building beside the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, a small brass plaque…
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
The Rise Of The Sensor-Based Smart City
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, is about to be flooded. Not by storms, which have proved…
6 Principles In Planning City-Level Sensor Projects
In Montreal, bus and subway riders who use the transit system’s OPUS smart fare card and have a…
Harnessing City Sounds For Better Urban Living
Counting cars, finding where shootings have occurred, and counting wildlife: all of this can be done by listening…
Smart slums: Utopian or Dystopian Vision of the Future?
A researcher explores how smart-city sensor technology can empower or disempower slum dwellers. Life in a smart city is…
Scaling Up Sensor-Based Smart Cities Proves Difficult
As Santander, Rio and other cities have demonstrated, sensor-based solutions have the potential to impact a broad range…
The Cloud Cities Where Urban Automation Is A Reality
Remote storage, big data and the Internet of Things are often discussed separately, but together they’re the driving…
Are You Willing To Trade Privacy For Efficiency?
Data science may be helping cities get ‘smarter’, but questions remain over how long urban populations will tolerate…