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Editor's Blog

Sarah, our editor, loves to give her take on how smart cities are evolving. Her weekly blog gives a small insight into her thinking on each weeks news that comes across her desk.

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Featured Stories

How citizen-centric are you?

11 Apr 2019

SmartCitiesWorld is running a research survey to understand what cities need in order to better engage citizens in city development and smart city initiatives.

Smart cities: How can We help?

29 Mar 2019

The We Company is expanding into smart cities. Why?

Smart cities and simpler times

29 Jan 2019

Sarah Wray gets the January blues with ‘digital by default’ services.

Smart cities in 2018: Tech, transportation and tough conversations

30 Dec 2018

We look back at the top smart cities stories of 2018.

Smart cities: Will they ad up?

13 Dec 2018

Advertising in smart cities throws up a lot of questions. Now’s a good time to talk about them.

City data-sharing scales up

03 Oct 2018

New initiatives around city data-sharing look way beyond open data.

Smart cities: What’s in a name?

11 Jul 2018

Is the term ‘smart cities’ helpful, or could it be potentially damaging? What terminology should we use and how much does it matter?

Public-private...pizza?

12 Jun 2018

The new Paving for Pizza pothole-fixing campaign from Domino’s certainly wasn’t one we were expecting. Are such deals a refreshing approach to ongoing infrastructure issues or a cause for concern?

Smart cities: Mind the gaps

06 Jun 2018

Recent research on technology and smart cities has highlighted a number of divides – such as a potential gap in how the tech industry and consumers view smart cities, and a disconnect between how citizens think about technology for individual use versus its impact for society as a whole.