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Parking Innovations That Every City Should Adopt
No one knows more about parking than UCLA’s Donald Shoup, the so-called “prophet of parking” and author of…
2015-02-07
The “Sensing” City Is the Future of Urbanism
The Smart City isn’t enough. How might real-time data awaken the humanity in our buildings and public spaces?…
2015-02-07
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…
2015-02-07
Smartphone: The Transport Innovation Of The Decade
In a previous New York City mayoral election, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis bragged that he was the only…
2015-02-06
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…
2015-02-03
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…
2015-01-31
What Makes a City a City?
In the dizzying world of tech cities, garden cities and smart cities, perhaps it’s time to redefine what…
2015-01-28
6 Ways To Grow Our Cities In A More Sustainable Manner
As we stand at the crossroads of urban development and environmental sustainability, the challenge of growing our cities…
2024-01-02
What is The Line, the 170km-long mirrored metropolis Saudi Arabia is building in the desert?
As climate change rapidly advances, many Middle Eastern states are aiming to make the transition from carbon-based economies…
2023-05-09
Davos 2023: Key takeaways for cities and local economies
Last week, nearly 3,000 global leaders – including over 350 government leaders and 47 heads of state –…
2023-01-23
The Wealthiest Cities in the World in 2022
The USA dominates the world’s Top 20 Cities with the Most Millionaires in 2022, with New York taking the crown…
2022-10-23
Connecting Urban Environments With IoT And Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold and cities face challenges to become more sustainable and livable, urban planning…
2020-12-04
Getting Into The Urban Property Development Market: How Developers Can Appeal To Metro Masses And Break The Profit Barrier
The urban property regeneration continues, with both businesses and renters flocking to the cities in search of the…
2019-07-29
Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes For Future Living
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so…
2018-04-18
Do Cities Still Want A Sharing Economy?
Much has been said in recent months about Uber and its travails as a company, with big leadership…
2018-02-26
How Hackers In Cities Can Solve Social Problems
Pittsburgh has declared itself an “inclusive innovation city,” meaning it is committed to making sure that white people…
2017-06-13
To Ride the Subway of the Future, All You Need Is Your Face
Biometric markers could replace physical payment methods, speeding entry for passengers (and discouraging fare evaders). Is this awesome,…
2017-06-06
Urban Urban … Not. The Drama Of Interconnected Cities Unfolds.
Are humans now an “urban species”? Do we now live in an “Urban Age”? To understand the contemporary human…
2016-07-11
Why The Price Of Convenience & Technology Is Our Privacy
Futuristic supermarkets promise customers the truth about their shopping, says Prof Carlo Ratti, but what are the retailers…
2016-06-13
It Is Obvious To Begin With, Cities Are First & Foremost For People
The federal government’s recently released Smart Cities Plan is built on three pillars: smart investment, smart policy and…
2016-06-03
Sci-Fi Cities & Mega Cities Of The Future, As Imagined Or Not?
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed…
2016-05-30
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…
2016-05-24
Why & How Perth Is Testing If Its Strategy Is Really Working
City planning has many approaches that have been used to enable better economic, social and environmental outcomes. The…
2016-05-17
While Apple & FBI Are Fighting, US DOT & Google’s Sidewalk Labs Are Partnering
U.S. DOT and Sidewalk Labs Partner in the Smart City Challenge; Sidewalk Labs to Create Flow, a Transportation…
2016-03-18
The Obvious Need Technology Designed With Humanity
Cities are our future. Urban populations are growing globally and cities are the logical answer to using land…
2016-03-16
How To Charge Your Gadgets (& Self) With One Appliance
Workers and visitors to London’s Canary Wharf will be the world’s first to enjoy the benefits of a…
2015-11-11
How The Right Signs Point To The Right Way To Success
Street signs, airport signs, signs in shopping malls and railway stations: they’re all around us, but we only…
2015-06-22
How Glasgow Is Reinventing Itself With Data
What will the city of the future look like? Like a lot of cities, Glasgow has an idea.…
2015-06-11
Will 5G Bring New Dimensions To Our Wireless World?
The hottest topic at Mobile World Congress 2015 will connect billions of people and things to the internet…
2015-05-29
Vertical Farms To Sprout Up In Cities
Designed for Linkoping, Sweden, this 177-foot vertical farm features crops grown on spirals that run down the building.…
2015-05-28
Forget The Internet Of Things – We Need An Internet Of People
The internet of things is a vision of ubiquitous connectivity, driven by one basic idea: screens are not…
2015-05-26
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…
2015-05-20
Big Apple. Big Cities. Big Data.
In mid-2011, New York found itself gripped by a series of horrible tragedies: Five people, including several children,…
2015-04-06
Innovation In Energy Will Drive Sustainable Cities
Urbanisation makes cities a main focus for environmental policy. Digital technology and innovation will enable a better quality…
2015-02-26
4 Reasons You Should Move To Vienna
Urbanists obsess over the Austrian capital city and for good reason: It’s beautiful, has affordable housing, great public…
2015-02-25
Piezo Technology : The Power Of Footfall
It’s called piezo technology and it enables scientists to tap energy from many sources: roads, railways – and…
2015-02-20
The Internet of Everything Will Change How We Live
As much as the Internet has already changed the world, it is the Web’s next phase that will…
2015-01-31
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…
2015-01-31
Our Urban Past, Present and Future
We are bombarded with statistics about the future of cities these days, as fast as the cities themselves…
2015-01-30
What’s Next (Maybe) For Generative AI, Foundation Models, Large Language Models, et al. v0.1.
The trajectory beyond Large Language Models (LLMs) involves advancements across technical, engineering, infrastructure, and global market dimensions. Looking…
2024-03-05
How Universities Can Play A Pivotal Role In Building Economic Resilience
We are all vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, supply chain disruptions, cybersecurity lapses, and armed conflict…
2024-01-20
On-Device AI Would Democratise GenAI And Ensure Inclusive Participation In The Economy
The generative AI (GenAI) revolution is here. The pace of innovation and development in GenAI, as well as…
2024-01-16
Farming Leaders On How To Scale-Up Adoption Of Sustainable Agriculture Practices
We need to move towards sustainable agriculture practices. We have a leadership imperative and a responsibility to build…
2024-01-16
Besties Picks: Top Backpack Bags Of 2023
We’ve explored the land in search of the best bags and look at what we found. Gears that…
2023-12-19
Top 10+1 You Can’t Do Without For The Holidays: Electronics Edition.
Let’s face it, technology has been part of our daily fun. From reading your favorite books on a…
2023-11-21
The 50 Best Electronic Deals To Get On Amazon Before Cyber Monday 2023
“You’re getting a TV! You’re getting a Tablet! You’re getting a Smart Watch! Everybody is getting something something!”…
2023-11-20
Why Wait For Cyber Monday When These Deals Are Already At Hand?
We bet everyone couldn’t wait for Cyber Monday or your just like us and want to plan things…
2023-11-12
US Housing Recovery Offers Sustainable Recovery
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. Increased activity in U.S. housing…
2023-10-19
Samsung Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE and Galaxy Buds FE Bring Standout Features to Even More Users
All-new FE series devices bring together a new spin on iconic designs, cutting-edge camera and audio quality, powerful…
2023-10-04
The regulatory Ripple Effect: Fraud Management in the Wake of PSD3, PSR and FIDA
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. Five years post-PSD2, the European…
2023-10-02