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Global ranking reflects cities’ post-pandemic resident-centric urban priorities

Influencing factors for BCG’s Cities of Choice ranking included quality of life, economic opportunities, social capital, interactions with authorities and speed of change.

San Diego launches tool to encourage citizen participation in decision-making

The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.

Global ranking reflects cities’ post-pandemic resident-centric urban priorities

Influencing factors for BCG’s Cities of Choice ranking included quality of life, economic opportunities, social capital, interactions with authorities and speed of change.

San Diego launches tool to encourage citizen participation in decision-making

The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.

Global ranking reflects cities’ post-pandemic resident-centric urban priorities

Influencing factors for BCG’s Cities of Choice ranking included quality of life, economic opportunities, social capital, interactions with authorities and speed of change.

San Diego launches tool to encourage citizen participation in decision-making

The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.

Global ranking reflects cities’ post-pandemic resident-centric urban priorities

Influencing factors for BCG’s Cities of Choice ranking included quality of life, economic opportunities, social capital, interactions with authorities and speed of change.

San Diego launches tool to encourage citizen participation in decision-making

The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.

Global ranking reflects cities’ post-pandemic resident-centric urban priorities

Influencing factors for BCG’s Cities of Choice ranking included quality of life, economic opportunities, social capital, interactions with authorities and speed of change.

San Diego launches tool to encourage citizen participation in decision-making

The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.

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Editor's Blog09 Jul 2021

Equity is a little word but one that must carry huge weight as cities around the world pledge to build back better.

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Editor's Blog02 Jul 2021

When SmartCitiesWorld was launched five years ago, agriculture and food production weren’t identified as being among the vertical sectors which we would cover. After all, our preoccupation was cities and advanced technology. The focus on resilience and sustainability though, especially in the context of climate change, has meant that to tackle many urban challenges, it is impossible to overlook these areas.

Oil leaks

Editor's Blog21 May 2021

Michael Lewis, the forensic chronicler of the 2008 financial crash in The Big Short (among many, many other incredible books), made a headspinning comment this week: "There are six times more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 30 working in computer systems."

Making haste with waste

Editor's Blog14 May 2021

What’s important to you where you live? Waste is one area that is overlooked all too often, perhaps understandable given what it literally is, but you quickly realise when your city isn’t getting things right

Bus conductors

Editor's Blog07 May 2021

You wait for stories on electric buses and then two come along at once. This week saw Gothenburg in Sweden and Charlotte in the United States announce plans to electrify their public transport networks.

Who lives in a house like this?

Editor's Blog30 Apr 2021

There’s no place like home. And up until recently there has been no place that has built via a 3D printer. This week Elize Lutz and Harriet Dekkers got a digital key to their two bedroom bungalow in the Beatrix canal in the Eindhoven suburb of Bosrijk.

Soft power

Editor's Blog23 Apr 2021

Momentum is building. Earth Day this week saw world leaders falling over themselves to promise even further cuts to climate emissions in a sign that our leaders are taking this issue seriously.

Reality bites

Editor's Blog16 Apr 2021

Joe Biden has hit the ground running as US president, determined to make up for the somewhat eventful four years of his predecessor in office, rebuild international alliances and, critically, put climate at the heart of his presidency.

(Almost) everything flows

Editor's Blog26 Mar 2021

First off, I would like to apologise to you for being unable to find a smart cities angle on the hapless ship stuck in the Suez Canal. I am sure you all have been as horribly fascinated with the story as I have and I regret being unable to write about it.

Twin town

Editor's Blog26 Feb 2021

Here in the UK, the phrase "build back better" is an inescapable mantra of the government as it looks to rebuild the economy following a successful vaccination programme (and take attention away from its chaotic handling of the pandemic itself).

Aiming for zero

Editor's Blog19 Feb 2021

Net-zero climate targets are ambitious and essential. But they can be onerous to some. How best to manage reducing emissions alongside fiscal challenges, generating employment, managing traffic networks and the myriad of daily challenges you face with the uncertainty of Covid-19 thrown into the mix?

Cities of dreams

Editor's Blog16 Oct 2020

Big topics, big challenges and big questions around the future of cities dominated the discussion at SmartCitiesWorld’s inaugural advisory board meeting – and we look forward to addressing them.

Data ownership could unleash truly smart cities

Data ownership could unleash truly smart cities

Editor's Blog31 Jan 2020

A simple way to control personal data could foster greater trust around smart city initiatives and open up a discussion around what citizens really find valuable – an extension of participatory budgeting, giving people a say in how they ‘spend’ their data.

SURVEY: Smart cities: Are you open?

Editor's Blog18 Jun 2019

SmartCitiesWorld’s latest research, in partnership with uCIFI Alliance, focuses on openness and interoperability in smart cities.

Smart cities: Will they ad up?

Editor's Blog13 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

Editor's Blog03 Oct 2018

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

Smart cities: Mind the gaps

Editor's Blog06 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.

Blockchain: Hurry up and wait

Editor's Blog09 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

Editor's Blog24 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

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