Special Reports

Carlsbad’s new Chief Innovation Officer is looking to go beyond the city delivering basic services, towards offering Amazon-like user experience for citizens.

Charles Carter looks at the latest initiatives to tackle air pollution and one of its biggest causes.

Smart cities are about people – and that includes the workers required to drive the transformation. Sarah Wray examines the skills challenge facing cities.

A MaaS trial in Manchester in the UK generated fascinating insights.

Can cities and telecommunications providers be the smart city power couple or will cities prefer to play the field?

At the weekend, the City Of Atlanta will host this year’s Super Bowl. Smart technology will play an important role in managing such a huge event and its impact on the city.

Smart city conversations don’t typically encompass housing. That could be changing, writes Sarah Wray.

The world’s first autonomous passenger ferry demonstration took place off the coast of Finland last month. Are we set to see such services scale up?

2019 could see virtual ’twins’ help to make smart cities a reality.

The M9 development houses Italy’s first digital museum and has been dubbed a ’micro-smart city’. Can it better unite Venice and offer takeaways for other European cities too?