Urban innovations company Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and the Canadian government announced a collaboration ...
Palm Beach County hires company to rescue public tranportation
Palm Beach County in Florida has multiple major problems with its transportation system. Officials now partnered up with a company known for improving big ...
Seattle pioneer for increasing bus ridership
Seattle, out of all major cities in the U.S., has experienced the biggest jump in bus ridership in the recent past. The public transit authority has been ...
Smart crosswalk tested in London
Architectural firm Umbrellium has developed the humble crosswalk, a digital crosswalk which reacts to pedestrians walking over it, in collaboration with ...
Amazon highlights importance of good transit
As Amazon is about to build a second headquarters in a major North American city, the company explicitly expressed a preference for cities with access to ...
Jakarta utilizes technology to tackle urban challenges with citizens
Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is ramping up urban development with an array of innovations. The city uses web-based planning mechanisms to involve ...
Toolkit brings environmental justice into city planning
SB 1000, an innovative environmental justice policy now mandated for all municipalities throughout California, requires cities to consider environmental ...
Food waste made into building materials
International engineering firm Arup, with a recent report, analyzes how organic waste could be repurposed into building materials to reduce food waste and ...
Oxford to introduce world’s first Zero Emission Zone
The City of Oxford in England is not only following suit after London’s plans to introduce an Ultra-Low Emission Zone in September 2020, the city is ...
Bike-share advocates educate Washington
Representatives of the North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) and PeopleForBikes have recently undertaken a one-day bike-share lobbying and ...
