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What Do Smart Cities Mean For Healthcare And Nursing?
Smart cities are cities that are built upon data and automated systems. They have the ability to adjust…
2020-03-11
How A Retail Store Can Succeed In A Busy Modern City
Busy cities are the best places for retail businesses because footfall is often so high and you will…
2020-03-10
How To Plan A Smart Company Based On Smart Technologies
It’s difficult, in this modern and high-tech business ecosystem, to justify any form of inefficiency or ineptitude. With…
2020-03-02
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…
2020-02-26
Top Tips For Setting Up A Business In A US City
Setting up a business in one of the USA’s many large cities is much different from starting up…
2020-01-16
How Smart Cities Can Help Your Business
The world is changing. The place that previous generations grew up in – and even our own –…
2019-12-10
How To Make Your Business Fit In With Newer, Smarter Cities
The advent of smart technology saw businesses feeling the pressure to fit in with advances in tech and…
2019-11-20
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…
2019-10-02
What Will Define The Smart Cities Of The Future
Over the last decade or so, smart devices have gradually started to become ubiquitous. From smartphones to smartwatches,…
2019-09-20
7 Things To Look Out For In Future Smart Cities
Smart cities are continually taking shape. With all these developments happening, what should we be excited about? Here…
2019-08-18
Top 5 Smart Cities You Need On Your Go-To List
Curious about what kind of technology cities of the future can offer? Ever wondered how it feels like…
2019-08-07
Addis Ababa’s Street Hustlers Helped Build The City – Now They’re Being Pushed Out
The population of Africa is booming, but as long as productivity and employment remain unsteady, “global experts” and…
2019-07-30
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…
2019-07-23
Urban Gears: Best Earbuds For The City Dweller
Headphones are great in getting an immersive sound experience but at times, they are too bulky, though. If…
2019-07-08
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2019
The IESE Business School in Barcelona has released the data and rankings for the world’s smartest cities for…
2019-06-27
Urban Gears: Best Mobile Phones For The City Dweller
Phones are almost always with us wherever we go and some can’t even imagine their lives without it.…
2019-06-08
Urban Gears: Best Laptop Bags For The City Dweller Under $100
Laptops are our companions. We need them in school, business meetings, and even lazy Saturday evenings. Of course,…
2019-06-04
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…
2019-05-24
Saudi Arabia Is Building Neom City, A Futuristic Green-Powered Megacity
Saudi Arabia recently announced a plan to build a megacity called Neom City, meaning “New Future”. The dream…
2019-05-21
The City On Your Selfies: How Instagram Helps Us Learn More About Urban Dynamics
For so long, social scientists have taken interest in the dynamics of cities, and rightfully so, for cities…
2019-04-25
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…
2018-12-04
Why Walkable Cities Are Good For The Economy, According To A City Planner
People spend more money when cities are less vehicle-oriented. You’ve probably seen the term “walkability” thrown around in…
2018-11-13
Will Smart Technology Solve The Urban Waste Crisis?
The migration of people into the world’s urban centres has created crisis levels of waste. According to the…
2018-11-06
How Blockchain Systems Could Bring About The Age Of Smart Cities
Various technological up-and-coming trends are projected to have a massive impact on our everyday life in the following…
2018-09-28
Preparing Your City For The Electric Vehicle Surge? Ask Oslo.
An automobile revolution is coming our way – only you might have trouble hearing it this time. Oslo’s…
2018-08-31
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…
2018-07-27
How To Sleep In A City That Never Sleeps: The Art Of Snoozing With The Street Lights On
People moving to urban environments is an ever-growing trend, and it is expected that more than 6 billion…
2018-07-17
Copenhagen Mastermind Jan Gehl Isn’t Sold On ‘Smart’ Cities
Architect and planner Jan Gehl looks back on how he helped transform Copenhagen into one of the world’s…
2018-05-16
Love The Bus, Save Your City
Talk of the transportation future is focused on the next shiny thing. But one old technology is central…
2018-05-10
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…
2018-04-23
How Long Can The World’s ‘Least Sustainable’ City Survive?
Set deep in the Valley of the Sun, the lush and sprawling ‘megapolis’ has a problem – the…
2018-03-23
Top Breakthrough Technologies For 2018 : Sensing City
Numerous smart-city schemes have run into delays, dialed down their ambitious goals, or priced out everyone except the…
2018-03-07
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…
2018-03-01
Stop Saying ‘Smart Cities’
Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient. The term “smart city” is interesting yet…
2018-02-28
This Vibrant Colonial City In a Volcanic Hot Spot
Despite its vulnerable position, Antigua hosts a colorful collection of well-preserved churches and ruins dating back to the…
2018-02-27
How To Make Smart Cities Human Again
Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. These include cameras and sensors that count…
2018-02-12
Cambridge’s Smart Solution To Disability: Cycling
Riding a bike may be easier than walking for two-thirds of disabled cyclists, but they often remain invisible…
2018-01-29
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,…
2018-01-26
What Would An Earthquake-Proof City Look Like?
Earthquakes don’t kill people (generally), collapsing buildings do – meaning it is cities where the most lives can…
2018-01-22
Smart Cities Objectives & Tactics: Work Smarter Not Harder
As the world’s biggest cities continue to sprawl with many millions of new people, they’ll look to many…
2017-09-27
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…
2017-09-19
Are You Sure Your City Is Better?
Our cities have now been named as the saving places of a planet in crisis. And yet we…
2017-07-31
Much Smart Cities. How About Creative Cities?
In 2007 US creative cities “guru” Richard Florida was flown up to Noosa to tell the local city council how…
2017-07-04
We Are Finally Realising Smart In Cities Is Not Just About Tech
Australia, one of the world’s most urbanised nations, is looking to up its investment in digital technologies to…
2017-05-09
Smarter Cities May Very Well Be Slower Cities For True Urban Soul
Peter Jackson employed an intricate approach to the stage design of Lord of the Rings. The people who…
2017-05-05
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…
2017-04-12
The State Of Smart Cities, Today
The term “smart city” has been around for a few years now and is a popular topic of…
2017-04-04
What It’s Like to Live in the World’s Most Polluted City
Delhi, the capital territory of India, is home to unbreathable air and undrinkable water. From the skies above…
2017-03-29
Why Culture Should Drive City Planning
In my view, while infrastructure and services are necessary for environmental health, it is culture that provides identity,…
2017-03-06
To Be Smart About Cities, Have The Future In Mind
Smart cities create a symbiosis between information, the Internet of Things and technologies to make better decisions and…
2017-03-03