Smart City Hub

10/01/2019

11/05/2018

Roadways clogged by commercial vehicles and intense competition for affordable housing are imposing costs on prosperous cities and their most vulnerable residents.

10/05/2018

UberAIR is well on its way, with the plan to start demonstrating the technology in 2020 and start operating the flying taxi service in 2023. In order to get there, it’s going to need what Ube…

24/04/2018

17/01/2018

What makes a "smart city" smart? Learn about Deloitte's advising work shaping the cities of the future in the 2017 Global Report:
http://deloi.tt/2BaprWe

15/01/2018

History is filled with urban utopias. A very recent one is PlanIT Valley, a dreamed smart city in Portugal near Porto. My interest was...

30/10/2017

Recently, I wrote how Google’s Sidewalk Labs – formally operating under the umbrella of Alphabet – is preparing a key role in smart city development....

21/09/2017

Aside from smart and resilient, a growing number of cities is wielding the adjectieve sharing. Seoul was in 2013 the first self-appointed Sharing City...

06/09/2017

Dutch railway company NS has allowed advertisers to monitor the way travellers pay attention to billboards. A pilot fase by media company Exterion has...

22/08/2017

The soaring skyscrapers, manicured gardens and rubbish tips of Hong Kong are all shown in this drone footage shot by architect Mariana Bisti, who aimed to capture the city's "complexities and contradictions".

22/08/2017

Circular economy is becoming an increasingly used strategy for organisations who want to transition their business model into one that is both environmentally and...

16/08/2017

Worldwide 55 percent of all people live in cities. They cover 4 percent of the landsurface, use 67 percent of all energy that is...

14/08/2017

According to a report by Frost & Sullivan, smart cities are anticipated to create huge business opportunities across different industries with a total market...

14/08/2017

Since five years, Silicon Valley based and non-profit The Seasteading Institute is working on plans to create the first floating city in the world. Cities...

04/08/2017

Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool announced that as of September the city of Amsterdam will start removing bikes belonging to bike sharing services, which are placed...

02/08/2017

Electric car grids, smart parking, crowdsensing, digitized education, smart lighting – these are among many concepts that top global cities are pursuing to improve...

31/07/2017

HERE Real-Time Traffic service is the first global service on the market that integrates live vehicle sensor data from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz vehicles...

28/07/2017

The City of Adelaide is getting ready to construct a transformational ten gigabit fibre-optic network that will deliver lightning fast data speeds to the...