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OnDemand WEBINAR: The intersection of sustainability and mobility

Join this webinar to understand how intermodality is key to sustainability and how to map the strategy.

Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Chicago

Chicago is looking to smart city technology to solve issues including poverty, inequality and racial segregation.

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Chicago reopens Green Homes registration

Chicago reports record shared bike and scooter trips

Chicago mayor announces plans for a green recovery

Bedford Park launches suburban-city job access mobility pilot

Report ranks world’s most innovation-friendly cities

Bogota ranked as 2019's most congested city

Bolt launches e-scooters in Washington DC

Sidewalk Labs unveils digital twin and 'Lego' vision for 35-storey timber building

Singapore tops smart city ranking for second year running

Tokyo named most innovative city in annual ranking

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Our editorial newsletter pulls together our latest news items into one email, direct to your inbox. We also feature our latest city interviews, Special Reports and Guest Opinions.

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The City of Chicago is the third-most populous city in the United States. Home to over 2.7 million residents, it has been called a global architecture capital. In terms of wealth and economy, Chicago is considered one of the most important business centres in the world. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city. It ranked seventh in the world in the 2016 Global Cities Index.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Chicago

Smart Cities Reports

Chicago is looking to smart city technology to solve issues including poverty, inequality and racial segregation.

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City Lights: Jamie Rhee, Chicago

City Lights

Jamie L. Rhee, Chief Procurement Officer, City of Chicago, talks to SmartCitiesWorld about how modernising procurement policy and practices is helping local businesses and the city’s economy.

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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.

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.

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

UK train station harvests kinetic energy from commuters’ footsteps

The project at Leighton Buzzard station aims to show how untapped footfall energy at transport hubs represents a real opportunity to provide sustainable energy sources.

SmartCitiesWorld Newsletters (Daily/Weekly)

Our editorial newsletter pulls together our latest news items into one email, direct to your inbox. We also feature our latest city interviews, Special Reports and Guest Opinions.

Guest Opinions

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

Shobhit Jain, Director of Product Innovation at HERE Technologies, shares his insights on how to succeed with public-...

Smart cities: Software is eating the world

Technology will shape and change the face of cities dramatically. Oliver Gassmann, Co-author of Smart Cities: ...

How smart cities can leverage open innovation to accelerate digital transformation

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 ...

2018 predictions for smart cities by Dan Evans, Senior Director, Smart Cities, Silver Spring Networks

The future looks bright for smart city technology

Governance in a digital age, by Salomon Salinas, smart cities lead at Accenture Mobility

Special Reports

Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

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Smart Cities - Understanding the Challenges

How do you make a city smart? That is the underlying question that unites the responses to the SmartCitiesWorld/ Philips Lighting survey, which draws on input from 150 thought leaders from across the world.