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How three cities are building sustainability and resilience

How three cities are building sustainability and resilience

Editor's Blog15 Mar 2024

London, Toronto and Vancouver are implementing strategies to make their built environment and critical infrastructure more sustainable and resilient.

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How two cities are accelerating the transition to electric

How two cities are accelerating the transition to electric

Editor's Blog24 Nov 2023

Developments in Adelaide and London exemplify a growing commitment to boosting electric vehicle charging infrastructure and creating greener urban landscapes.

Three examples of innovative bus services and strategies

Three examples of innovative bus services and strategies

Editor's Blog29 Sep 2023

Initiatives demonstrate how cities are actively reimagining their bus services to better serve their communities and meet evolving transportation needs.

The technologies that are shaping smart cities around the world

The technologies that are shaping smart cities around the world

Editor's Blog18 Mar 2022

Artificial intelligence, LoRaWan and blockchain are among the technologies coming into their own and empowering authorities to increase efficiencies and improve quality of life for citizens.

Micro Machines

Editor's Blog28 May 2021

The world’s most striking cities are almost certainly the most congested: whether London, New York, Istanbul, Paris, the list goes on. While Covid-19 related lockdowns led to a fall in traffic in our major cities, as things gradually, thankfully open again, roads are going to be packed once more.

From tiny acorns

Editor's Blog05 Mar 2021

George Orwell had a point when he once wrote: “The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

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).

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.

A bridge too far?

Editor's Blog31 Jul 2020

The incremental benefits that smart cities programmes can bring over large-scale vanity infrastructure projects might be more subtle but are ultimately more substantial.

Weekly: making the post-apocalyptic more palatable

Weekly: making the post-apocalyptic more palatable

Editor's Blog25 May 2020

The opening up of a city to cyclists is one of the best ways to enforce social distancing, increase public health and also change a citizen’s relationship with their city.

Getting from A to B and the conferences of the future

Getting from A to B and the conferences of the future

Editor's Blog18 May 2020

The pandemic is changing where we go and how we get there and while none of us will mourn congestion, there’s much to miss when it comes to travelling to live events.

Smart cities in 2018: Tech, transportation and tough conversations

Smart cities in 2018: Tech, transportation and tough conversations

Editor's Blog30 Dec 2018

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

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.

We need to talk about smart cities

Editor's Blog03 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.