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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

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.

Urban Whack-a-Mole

23 May 2018

Rather than viewing cities as a series of Whack-a-Mole problems to be solved, we should think about how we want to live.

Blockchain: Hurry up and wait

09 May 2018

Despite the huge amount of hype surrounding blockchain, new research from Gartner bursts the bubble somewhat and finds that very, very few organisations are actually implementing the technology yet.

Smart places must go beyond cities

24 Apr 2018

Many towns and smaller cities are down on their luck. Will technology help them get back up or see them falling further behind? Sarah Wray takes a look

Smart cities: Reality check

17 Apr 2018

There are some big ideas in smart cities, but are we making enough progress on the fundamentals?

Breaking the data deadlock

10 Apr 2018

Cities have been at something of an impasse with their ability to innovate with data. Sarah Wray looks at how those taking action with bold new initiatives are paving the way for everyone to move ahead.

We need to talk about smart cities

03 Apr 2018

If we don’t tell the smart city story better, we are set to see a backlash and technology’s benefits may not be realised at all, says SmartCitiesWorld editor, Sarah Wray.

Thanks and cheerio!

29 Mar 2018

I’m putting the whole subject of smart cities on the back burner while I go off to play with some matches

A noble future

22 Mar 2018

Don’t forget the empowering nature of technology

Special Reports

Why the smart city could increasingly start at home

There are set to be almost 300 million smart homes installed around the world by 2022, according to a new report from ABI Research, and therefore smart home devices and services will play an increasingly important part in smart city programmes. We talked to the research report author, Jonathan Collins, Research Director at ABI Research, to find out more.