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The latest planning and redevelopment on smart city projects and initiatives across the world.

Chicago reopens Green Homes registration

Chicago reopens Green Homes registration

Residential buildings23 Feb 2026

City-led decarbonisation initiative takes an equity-focused approach, providing both electrification and health and safety upgrades to low-income homeowners.

Chicago introduces ordinance for green social housing development

Chicago introduces ordinance for green social housing development

Residential buildings24 Feb 2025

Ordinance will allow the City to establish an independent nonprofit to serve as the Green Social Housing developer and increase the supply of affordable housing.

Net-zero Smart Neighbourhoods planned for Chicago metro area

Net-zero Smart Neighbourhoods planned for Chicago metro area

Planning and redevelopment28 Oct 2022

Nicor Gas and Southern Company are partnering with Habitat for Humanity to build the smart communities, which will use a combination of renewable, electric and natural gas technologies.

Chicago releases data-driven plan for citywide equity

Chicago releases data-driven plan for citywide equity

News15 Jul 2022

“We Will” is a draft 10-year framework, which includes approximately 40 goals and 150 objectives, devised to tackle social inequities and build thriving communities.

Chicago launches $5.3m home and business security programme

Chicago launches $5.3m home and business security programme

Citizen security07 Jun 2022

The City of Chicago will provide select rebates to reimburse the costs of private security devices such as cameras and motion-sensor lighting to protect property and increase public safety.

Chicago unveils citywide vision for connected trails and corridors

Chicago unveils citywide vision for connected trails and corridors

Parks and green space04 Apr 2022

The mayor wants to connect a network of trails to transit, housing and parks, creating new outdoor assets and contributing to a range of community-led green infrastructure projects.

Chicago’s buildings notch up 25 per cent reduction in emissions

Chicago’s buildings notch up 25 per cent reduction in emissions

Commercial buildings04 Feb 2022

Achievement is revealed in the 2020 Chicago Energy Benchmarking Report, which details an analysis of nearly 2,900 properties spanning over 720 million square feet across the city.

Chicago awards microgrants to equitable transit pilot projects

Chicago awards microgrants to equitable transit pilot projects

News25 Oct 2021

The mayor has recognised 11 community-driven ventures that promote healthy, walkable, and affordable neighbourhoods in the inaugural Etod programme to support project construction near transit stations.

Chicago announces strategy to overhaul waste and reduce landfill

Chicago announces strategy to overhaul waste and reduce landfill

News19 Jul 2021

The report details more than 63 strategic recommendations to help address waste management, 12 of which are being prioritised by the City in 2021 and 2022.

Chicago announces first net-zero high-rise for Loop site

Chicago announces first net-zero high-rise for Loop site

News16 Jun 2021

The $102m, 20-story structure, planned by the Community Builders at Van Buren Street and Plymouth Court, was announced winner of Chicago’s C40 Reinventing Cities competition.

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What is ‘Smart City’ and why do we need them?

Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.

ST Engineering to provide smart city platform for Lusail City

The company will build and operate a smart city platform with citywide network connectivity for the Qatar city using advanced AI and data-driven technologies.

SmartCitiesWorld launches AI CityXchange to support cities at every stage of AI adoption

A dedicated platform and series of workshop events focused on how AI is being applied across cities from experimentation to large-scale, embedded deployment.

Invisible LEDs light up Beijing landmark

Signify has installed connected architectural lighting into the façade of the China World Trade Centre’s Tower B

The threat of urban canyons to autonomous vehicles

The continued growth of skyscrapers and urban infrastructure means AVs are at risk of signal black-out in cities across the world, warns UK-based AV software specialist, Oxbotica.

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Why cities need to get smart about maintenance

A new approach to maintenance work is the key to revitalising our cities, writes Chris Turlica, CEO of MaintainX.

Pioneering cities demonstrate fundamentals for PPP success

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Smart cities: Software is eating the world

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Going cashless: How cities benefit from simpler payments

Pursuing cashless initiatives could be an important step in delivering smarter cities, says Gemalto’s Ankit Kumar.

‘Mini cities’: The rise of tall buildings

As cities continue to grow, the way we construct and manage buildings has never been more critical to global economic ...

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How cities can own their data and their future with sovereign AI

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Tune into the SmartCitiesWorld podcast to understand the world of sovereign AI for cities, featuring PNY Technologies’ Youssef Nadiri as our expert guest.

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

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