Articles by Smart Cities Connect

The city of Newcastle in the UK recently launched a website – NCLEUS.com – featuring its smart and sustainable projects, businesses, and research. Newcastle was recognized as UK Smart City of the Year 2019, Connected Read More

The city of Ingleside on the Bay, TX is working with a multi-disciplinary group of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a low-cost sensor network that will monitor climate change Read More

Liege University’s Smart City Institute recently published the fifth volume of their Smart Cities Guide for municipalities. The theme of this edition is the monitoring and evaluation of smart city projects. The Institute conducted a Read More

Philadelphia’s Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT) is launching an apprenticeship program for current city employees to provide training for higher paid jobs, specifically in software engineering and user experience.  The two-year program is intended Read More

Last year, RoSPA – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – in the UK, conducted a bicycle safety study that revealed some of the most dangerous locations for cyclists in the city of Read More

The city council of Glasgow, Scotland has launched a road safety strategy, with the goal of eliminating all road fatalities or serious injuries by the year 2030. “Road collisions have an immeasurable impact on those Read More

Atlanta, GA Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms recently announced the Farm Stand Ordinance which will allow urban farms in Atlanta to sell fresh, affordable food directly to consumers living within residential zoned areas of the city. Read More

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Arup have released a new guidebook – Green and Thriving Neighborhoods – which offers a  framework and approach for delivering net zero status using ‘15-minute city’ principles. It’s aimed at Read More

Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) –  which is responsible for designing technology for national security and public safety – is testing the use of autonomous robots to patrol public spaces and monitor Read More

The University of Michigan’s Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is conducting a year long, public-private research partnership with the City of Detroit and Microsoft to study where and why residents of the city lack access Read More