At SmartCitiesWorld’s inaugural advisory board meeting, Jeff Risom, chief innovation officer at Gehl Architects, explored how the public realm might be managed in the post-pandemic era.
Find out how Dublin is innovating to improve experiences and services for its communities in the latest SmartCitiesWorld City Profile, including digital twin projects, traffic reduction, and economic growth.
Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.
Gain insights from practitioners from the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo on how they’re breaking down silos in data and departments in this episode of the Urban Exchange podcast.
Winners’ achievements demonstrate the EC’s vision for a smarter, greener and more inclusive tourism sector, setting a benchmark for other destinations.
Eight US cities are showcasing public art projects designed to bring their communities together as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
The AI-designed smart work resort District 11 project aims to set a new benchmark for urban innovation and economic vitality in Sharjah and the wider UAE.
Pairing wifi technology with existing city infrastructure unlocks a platform for Los Angeles to further develop smart city assets and public service delivery.
This is one of the findings revealed in the fifth edition of the World Cities Culture report that identifies key trends in urban policy in global cities.
It has collaborated with Ameresco on a number of efficiency-focused upgrades that will strengthen its legacy and deepen its service to future generations.
New guidelines introduced by mayor Eric Adams aims to help event producers cut waste, reduce emissions, and improve environmental impact across the city.
Residents can share stories and ideas through a memory box installation to help guide early design decisions of a prominent section of the flagship civic block.
Challenge supports innovative solutions to ease congestion and improve pedestrian and pilgrimage flows through Varanasi, one of India’s most sacred cities.
As part of the Federal government’s decarbonisation programme, Berlin State Library is working with Siemens to reduce energy consumption and emissions.
Downtown SF Partnership has launched Downtown Gateway, part of the Public Realm Action Plan, reimagining the underutilised cable car stop at Robert Frost Plaza.
City of Chattanooga’s Brian Smith explains how the city has changed its reputation from America’s dirtiest city to the first designated as a National Park City.
Three companies have been chosen to develop prototypes that inspire locals and visitors to tell their Belfast Story as part of the Augment the City Challenge.
Ranking combines global user-generated data, statistical performance and new proprietary research, including an Ipsos survey of 7,500 Europeans in 10 countries.
The council’s innovation team hosted an event showing how immersive technologies, including AR and VR, could enhance visitor attractions of the future.
Find out how Dublin is innovating to improve experiences and services for its communities in the latest SmartCitiesWorld City Profile, including digital twin projects, traffic reduction, and economic growth.
Structural resilience of football venues will prove critical, as some high-hazard venues mitigate financial losses through smart design and natural barriers.
City says it will enable efficient planning for new kindergartens, schools and services for seniors, improving accessibility and aligning with community needs.
Development is part of a wider transformative urban initiative aimed at establishing a dynamic art and cultural destination within the historically rich city.
Redesign is a cornerstone of the City’s transformative downtown redevelopment strategy, positioning it as a model for equitable and sustainable urban growth.
Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.
The title comes in recognition of the UK city’s commitment to innovation and smart regulation to decarbonise the live music and TV and film production sectors.
Delve into this City Profile which focuses on how the City of San Diego is innovating through policy and technology to best serve its communities. Find out how it splits the city’s challenges and matches them to solutions that demonstrate exactly how technology, policy and investment come together to overcome both every-day and long-term issues.
Nine artists, chosen from nearly 80 submissions, will create shade and cooling installations in parks as part of the City’s efforts to address extreme heat.
The project is envisioned as a way to transform a large portion of the Lincoln Avenue corridor into a new linear public park with green and open space.
Each sculpture features a 24/7 visual livestream from a Portal in the other city, allowing real-time interaction between Dubliners and New Yorkers and visitors.
The tree is designed as an art piece to spark interest in sustainability but will also feed energy into the Abu Dhabi grid via 16 bi-facial solar panels.
With inclusion, diversity and technology central to the smart city vision, María J Martínez reports on how the ‘Enlightened City’ has obtained the UN-Habitat Gold Recognition in the SDG Cities Programme.
The Rio Grande District Vision & Implementation plan is intended to serve as a redevelopment roadmap for around 11 acres of land west of the city’s Downtown.
Sunderland Pavilion in Keel Square will make use of advanced smart city digital infrastructure and will provide a centrepiece for Expo Sunderland in 2026.
The Canopy will integrate with various modes of transportation to ensure accessibility for all and feature pedestrian-friendly walkways and bike paths.
Natural Capital Solutions calculated the value the City’s open spaces deliver to the public in areas such as air quality, recreation, health and wellbeing.
The digital map of King’s Cross by Living Map provides real-time and customisable step-by-step directions, highlighting the mix of facilities on offer.
Tallinn’s 2024 budget allocates a record €39.9m for cultural activities and investments, with an emphasis on ensuring everyone can partake in cultural life.
The 2,349 square-metre structure will have capacity for 1,300 worshippers and produce at least 100 per cent of the energy it needs over the course of a year.
The Wisdome Stockholm building showcases the use of wood as a building material, highlighting it as an important part of the solution to battle climate change.
Under the European Commission Smart Tourism umbrella, Grosseto in the Tuscany region of Italy was also crowned Green Pioneer for its sustainability efforts.
The Earls Court Development Company plans to create a commercial space for the UK’s clean and climate technology sector on a cleared site in West London.
DiscovAR Dublin utilises open Google Maps technology to form an interactive 3D map where users can be transported into the city from anywhere in the world.
The City has released a draft masterplan to guide the transformation of the Yarra River – Birrarung area and is consulting with the community and stakeholders.
Its first place is down to a combination of stability, good culture and entertainment, reliable infrastructure, and exemplary education and health services.
As official distributed antenna system partner for Olympia, BAI will install the infrastructure, designed to be shared by all four UK mobile network operators.
Telus is committed to helping Montreal become one of the world’s most welcoming and innovative cities, connecting thousands of kilometres of optic fibre.
The competition is set in the Avanos district of Turkey’s historic and iconic destination and seeks to inspire more ecological and sustainable tourism design.
Skellefteå Kraft and ABB worked together on a bespoke energy storage solution for the sprinkler system at one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Sweden.
Louisville Metro’s Community Crosswalks programme invites local artists to install vibrant crosswalks to help improve safety conditions for pedestrians.
The 21-metre-high artwork is part of one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration projects in Brent Cross Town and acts as a wrap around the new substation.
The power purchase agreement is, reportedly, the first of its kind in the UK to be signed directly between a renewables energy producer and a governing authority.
The competition included two interactive stages in which residents submitted more than 2,000 comments on the entries via the Kerro Kantasi feedback service.
Dubai Municipality is collaborating with the emirate’s Museum of the Future to anticipate future technologies in areas such as smart cities, sustainable construction and food security.
The Ellinikon Metropolitan Park will be Europe’s largest coastal park at more than 600 acres and aims to revolutionise the role parks play in new and existing cities, utilising smart technology for ecological restoration.
A dating-style app for buildings and a high-yield urban farm are among the bold ideas aiming to transform Fishermans Bend into Australia’s premier innovation hub.
Urban design firm Sitelab is working with the Downtown SF Partnership to reinvent the area as a pedestrian-centric, more vibrant and culturally rich space, based on a framework and vision to influence change.
In the newly created role, Diana Fernandez Bibeau is charged with executing “a human-scale and inclusive vision” for the design of the built environment across the city.
The Economist Intelligence Unit reports that scores for culture and environment, healthcare and education have improved on the back of Covid-19 restrictions being eased but the global average score remains below pre-pandemic levels.
The city has transformed one of its major streets into a pedestrian boulevard in a $43.5m project to create a seamless, car-free path for people walking and dining in Sydney’s city centre.
