MIT Professor Carlo Ratti, director of the school’s Senseable City Lab, has been studying and designing smart city technologies for years. In an ...
Hamburg wird zur Smart City
Lastwagen kommunizieren mit Ampeln, Sensoren steuern den Verkehrsfluss – bereits seit zwei Jahren testet die Stadt Hamburg verschiedene Smart City- ...
Semarang launches Asia’s first city resilience strategy
The city of Semarang, Indonesia, has released Asia’s first city resilience strategy. The strategy document identifies the six biggest challenges of ...
Urbanization presents opportunity to lower emissions
by Smart City News on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 in All News, Energy, Urban Development, Environment + Climate
Although urban areas might not be viewed as enviromentally friendly places, per capita carbon emissions in cities are normally lower than average in ...
LA opens up smart city data pool
With giving researchers high-speed access to its smart city datasets, the city of Los Angeles, United States, aims to foster new data-driven discoveries. ...
Sweden plans to relocate an entire city
In an unprecedented urban project, Sweden plans to move its northernmost city, Kiruna, two miles to the east. A new documentary offers insights on how ...
Barcelona gives its streets back to the citizens
With creating “superblocks”, the city of Barcelona, Spain, plans to give its streets back to its residents. The new strategy aims to reduce ...
Dubai on the verge of multi-faceted transformation
With more than 100 initiatives, Dubai’s smart city strategy covers nearly all areas of public life – from public transportation to government ...
