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OnDemand Panel Debate: Clearing the air: strategies for enhancing urban air quality

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

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Lessons from Italy: Why smart city projects can bridge the urban development gap

Lessons from Italy: Why smart city projects can bridge the urban development gap

Digital Leaders CEO Giuliano Liguori highlights Italy as an example and warning that pushing ahead with smart city plans should ensure access for the worst off, on an individual and municipal level, as top priority.

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Equitable and sustainable urban living
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Equitable and sustainable urban living

Editor's Blog05 Sep 2024
Three cities accelerating the green transition with innovative projects and substantial investments to enhance sustainability and equity in urban living.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dublin

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Trend Report 2025: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living

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Panel Discussion (20 Jan): Digital twins and AI as the intelligent operating layer for cities

Panel Discussion (20 Jan): Digital twins and AI as the intelligent operating layer for cities

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast
Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast
Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.
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How smart cities are using artificial intelligence
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How smart cities are using artificial intelligence

Editor's Blog16 Aug 2024
This week we showcase three examples that demonstrate the transformative role AI is playing in cities to improve daily life and long-term strategies.
How three cities are building sustainability and resilience
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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.
Decarbonising the built environment
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Decarbonising the built environment

Editor's Blog08 Mar 2024
The push towards greater carbon transparency and enhancing emissions reporting underscores the collective commitment to sustainability in the built environment.
The technologies that are shaping smart cities around the world
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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.
Moving with the times
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Moving with the times

Editor's Blog16 Jul 2021
Members and regular visitors to our site won’t need to be told that SmartCitiesWorld has undergone a major redesign. Much like the cities and the technology featured on the site, we recognise that we ourselves must also evolve and react to changing times.
Oil leaks
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
The fourth generation of cities
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The fourth generation of cities

Editor's Blog01 Apr 2021
It’s a strange time. Of course, it has been a strange time for well over a year but optimism surrounding vaccination rates in countries like Israel, the UK and Chile is being sharply tempered by fresh and sudden lockdowns in Europe, vaccine scepticism in some countries and a deadly and passive approach to the virus in Brazil.
(Almost) everything flows
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(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.
Should we still keep it simple?
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Should we still keep it simple?

Editor's Blog19 Mar 2021
Can simplicity be damaging? This is a question I have been chewing over for most of the week. Many careers, journalism included, reward keeping it simple. It doesn’t mean limited or unambitious - it means engaging and inclusive.
From tiny acorns
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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
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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
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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?
Open cities
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Open cities

Editor's Blog12 Feb 2021
It’s the little things that matter. Consider kerbs. For the majority of us they’re things we ignore (and occasionally trip over). For those with mobility problems they can be obstacles for travelling around a city, at times closing off parts of where they live

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