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What Is A Smart City Like In 2021?
The concept of a ‘smart city’ should not be difficult to define in 2021, since we have actual…
What To Do When Relocating Your Business To A Smart City
Relocating your business to a smart city can be a daunting venture, and yet it can help your…
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…
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…
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…
Stop Saying ‘Smart Cities’
Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient. The term “smart city” is interesting yet…
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…
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…
How Smart Is Your City? – A Survey
Cities, smart or not, have emerged as key initiatives for local governments. As these governments completed, learn from,…
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…
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,…
Amsterdam, Already Leads In Cycling, Pulls Further With Bike Mayor
The semi-official post is the first of its kind in the world. This summer, Amsterdam will go one…
Where Citizens Doing DIY Knows It Is Not Built In A Day
Armed with shovels and sacks of cold asphalt, Rome’s residents fill potholes. Defying rats, they yank weeds and…
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…
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…
Why A University Is A Reflection Of Its Cities And Vice Versa
Cities could increasingly take the lead on solving societal problems. Ed Glaeser, an economist at Harvard, famously said…
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…
Singapore + Copenhagen = Smart City Fusion
To mark the 50th anniversary of close bilateral ties between Singapore and Denmark, the two countries came together…
How the Internet of Things Could Transform Public Services
Cars that can communicate with each other to avoid collisions. Thermostats that can be controlled from thousands of…
What A City Would Look Like If It Were Designed For Only Bikes (No Cars Allowed!)
Coasting down from your apartment on your personal bike ramp will be so fun. The more that bike…
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 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…
Why Smart Cities Have Always Been About People
In Charlotte, N.C., providing people with data is leading to real transformation. The city of Charlotte, N.C., has,…
How Big Data May Help Sustain A Sustainable City
Global IT firm Hitachi Consulting has been chosen to build a first-of-its-kind Big Data platform for Denmark’s capital…
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.…
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…
Futuristic Smart City Models of Paris
Inhabitat favorite Vincent Callebaut just unveiled plans to transform Paris into a futuristic “smart” city that looks more…
The Silent Rise Of The Smart City
As Google hits the headlines for changes to its privacy rules across Europe, it is worth noting…
Bluetooth And Sensors Help Michigan Drivers Avoid Construction Snarls
Construction season adds angst to already messy commutes. In Michigan, a combination of sensors and Bluetooth technology is…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wellington In New Zealand Experiments With Parking Sensors
Thousands of sensors are to be installed around Wellington to keep an eye on parking overstayers. A $1.4 million…
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.…