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A Vulnerable City Is Not A Smart City
“Real world hacker” Cesar Cerrudo has blasted vendors, saying they’re stopping security researchers from testing smart city systems,…
2015-06-04
America’s Greenest Cities
“Being green isn’t just smart — it might even make you gorgeous.” Irene Lane, founder of ecotourism “concierge”…
2015-06-03
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…
2015-06-03
Big Data Could Help Cities On Climate Change
With last year’s U.S.-China Climate Accord came a new focus on municipal sustainability. Yes, power plants and national…
2015-05-28
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
How Cities Can Woo Small Businesses
Small businesses aren’t all alike. Some are restaurants, some are mom-and-pop shops, and some might even become the…
2015-05-22
World’s Best Cities For Coffee
When traveling, coffee lovers need to know where to go to escape the substandard American-style brew most hotels…
2015-05-21
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
Megacities Might Not Save The Planet After All
YOU LEARN TO put up with a lot when you live in Mexico State. The electricity is always…
2015-05-18
Are tiny homes the next big thing for cities?
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases — and as city officials try to make…
2015-05-15
Visions Of Smart City Utopia Need Urgent Reality Check
Responsive urban technology sounds enticing but citizens must not be disconnected from plans drawn up on their behalf.…
2015-05-06
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…
2015-05-06
The Silent Rise Of The Smart City
As Google hits the headlines for changes to its privacy rules across Europe, it is worth noting…
2015-05-04
Quirky Ideas For More Sustainable Cities
City living has many upsides, but a sustainable lifestyle is increasingly not among them. Pollution, traffic and loss…
2015-04-30
Architects And Second-Tier Cities, Partners For Progress
Ambitious architects tend to cluster in the same metropolises: New York, Chicago, L.A. (not to mention Beijing and…
2015-04-23
How Startups Are Redesigning Cities
We built this city, we built this city on rock an’ roll really old reasoning. In the past,…
2015-04-15
When Do The World’s Best Cities Go To Sleep?
24-hour transport, late shopping and bars without lockouts are key to a global city. But some of the…
2015-04-14
Smart AND Beautiful, Vienna
Vienna, the capital and largest city in Austria. Often ranked as the most livable city in the world.…
2015-04-13
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…
2015-04-11
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…
2015-04-06
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
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…
2015-03-19
We Need Agile Cities
If we are to make cities work for people in the future, to enable economic growth without depleting…
2015-03-19
What Big Data Means For Big Cities
Sometimes the most powerful and transformative technologies emerge by accident, an unintended consequence of other developments. When this…
2015-03-18
Using Beijing Subway Makes You Smarter, Literally
Riders can stop playing Angry Birds and download something a bit more enriching. On the subway in Beijing,…
2015-03-12
From Old Port City To Smart City
Aside from the occasional ferry down from England, the old Spanish port city of Santander doesn’t get too…
2015-03-11
Singapore Plans To Become The World’s First Smart Nation
Smart cities—filled with sensors and connected tech to help solve everything from traffic jams to pollution—have been slow…
2015-03-05
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
How Copenhagen Is Using LEDs To Create A Smarter City
The Danish capital is using a network of LEDs to do everything from direct cyclists to reduce truck…
2015-02-25
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…
2015-02-21
Quality Of Life Improves In Compact Cities
That urban design improves the quality of people’s lives is an old idea. A new study, Measuring Sprawl…
2015-02-09
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
How Cities Can Learn From The Human Body’s Systems
Much like the human body with its skeletal, cardiovascular and nervous systems, cities have infrastructure systems, such as…
2015-02-05
A Smart City Is More Than Just Sensors, Big Data, and Internet
Investing billions in big data and smart technology isn’t the only answer to building more sustainable urban areas.…
2015-02-03
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
The World’s Healthiest Cities
What makes a city healthy? A combination of factors, ranging from readily available healthcare to excellent mass transit…
2015-02-03
Cities Are Key To Fighting Climate Change
Urban areas will be disproportionately impacted by rising sea levels and severe weather. Luckily, they’re leading the resilience…
2015-01-30
4 Ways AI Could Transform The Economy As We Know It
The European Central Bank – but could AI soon usurp its role?Image: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay Artificial intelligence is catalyzing significant…
2024-03-06
The Convergence Of Technology And Geopolitics – Implications For The Global Order
Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, quantum computing, and biosciences are conferring new forms of power and…
2023-08-08
Unleashing The Power Of Code. Paving The Sustainable Path In Software Engineering.
Introduction. In the world of 1s and 0s, software engineering emerges as a dynamic force with the potential…
2023-07-04
6 Innovative Technologies That Enhance Public Safety Like Never Before
Life can be unpredictable. Natural disasters, crimes, or tragedies can occur anytime. These unforeseen circumstances can happen to…
2021-11-01
5 Trends In Urban Infrastructure Planning Design
To survive, you need roads and electricity. Here we are not talking about survival, but about the policy…
2021-09-07
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
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
Surprise! Digital Space Isn’t Replacing Public Space, And Might Even Help Make It Better
You’re on the train on your daily commute, head bowed, peering at your phone. A cavalcade of news…
2019-08-19
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
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
In A Time Of Robots, Educators Must Invest In Emotional Labour
Technology critics and defenders alike argue that human jobs are being eliminated by workplace automation, minimizing the need for human interaction. Another…
2018-01-19