The fund aims to change the systems and built environment conditions that affect environmental justice and increase community resilience to climate change.
The network, comprising 76 ground-level sensors, will measure and share real-time air quality data to residents in every neighbourhood of Philadelphia.
Cities set to see green jobs boom by 2040 but report warns up to six million jobs would go unfilled without public policy and private sector interventions.
The Office of Sustainability is seeking community-based organisations to help the city plan for a safe and resilient future in the face of climate impacts.
Update to the Philly Stat 360 website deepens the US City’s commitment to government transparency and accountability as well as data-driven decision-making.
Citywide Power Up Tour will visit 10 districts throughout the year, setting up pop-up events and addressing digital exclusion by giving away free laptops.
Tools helps residents find available free wifi while the dashboard highlights areas where enhanced connectivity is needed to help close the digital divide.
The 2c2i programme is making hundreds of thousands of dollars available to startups to pursue inventive climate solutions in the Baltimore region and beyond.
It will deliver connectivity and consulting services and connect customers with companies that provide applications in areas such as smart lighting, parking and waste as well as digital kiosks.
The issue has been a focus for the City’s Office of Innovation and Technology for more than 10 years, but the pandemic has forced the consequences of the digital divide into day-to-day life for residents.
The 1,200-acre former military base has been redeveloped into a mixed-use campus led by Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation and master developer of the historic shipyard.
Designed to encourage and support cities to ramp up their climate action and ambition, the A list is based on environmental data disclosed by cities to the CDP-ICLEI unified reporting system.
The City of Philadelphia’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, alongside its sustainability director, tell SmartCitiesWorld why inclusivity, equity and diversity are critical in getting engagement from residents on climate action ahead of COP26.
Projects ranging from the use of AI and machine learning to inspect roadways to a housing rights challenge were among those highlighted as making “unprecedented progress”.
Proposals for the Septa for All: Augmenting Transit with Augmented Reality challenge can address any segment of a transit journey from trip planning through to arriving at a destination.
It follows integration of the transport app with taxi mobility platform Curb which allows riders to get real-time estimated arrival times for the nearest taxis.
Michael Nutter is expanding his role with the smart waste and recycling company after partnering with RubiconSmartCity in his capacity as an advisory board member for two years.
An index from StreetLight Data ranks the 100 most populous metro areas based on a range of carbon-related transportation factors, including vehicle miles travelled.
Austin, Athens, Lisbon and Venice are the latest major cities to have ‘peaked’ their greenhouse gas emissions, meaning they won’t rise any further and are now falling.
Cimcon’s latest round of funding includes a revenue-sharing facility that it claims will enable its city customers to deploy smart initiatives with "minimal" upfront costs.
In the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard, the city earned the highest score for its building policies and a perfect score for its energy efficiency outreach and programmes.
They will receive a share of more than $1m as part of the inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, which seeks to strengthen community engagement and connections.
The city is deploying a suite of applications including smart lighting, air quality monitors and people traffic counters utilising Cimcon’s NearSky platform.
Hickey & Associates assessed thousands of datapoints across more than 300 markets to pinpoint the next hotbeds of innovation and transformation around the globe.
Based on insights from 50 city leaders in the US, a new handbook aims to offer guidance on how technology and innovation can be deployed to benefit entire communities.
