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City environmental health inspectors in Denver, CO have installed odor-detecting “electronic noses” to detect foul odors from industrial facilities –  such as those in pet food manufacturing, marijuana production, asphalt shingle and coating materials manufacturing, petroleum Read More

In 2015, Growing Underground in London, England opened the “world’s first subterranean farm,” by using one of London’s eight underground World War Two bomb shelters as a site for vertical farming. The abandoned bomb shelter is 33 Read More

New York City now has a total of 20 mobile vaccine buses administering 150 to 200 daily doses of COVID-19 shots in neighborhoods across the five boroughs – primarily focusing on vulnerable residents. During its Read More

Agritecture.com – a site devoted to the art, science, and practice of incorporating agriculture into the built environment – recently reported on the top 10 cities for urban ag. Many of these cities are promoting urban agriculture Read More

As reported by Smart Cities Connect in June of 2020, the Baltimore Health Corps (BHC) launched as a way to recruit, train, and employ new community health workers (CHWs) as part of a measure to to Read More

As part of Rome, Italy’s Sustainable Urban Mobility plan, the city has created a new electric vehicle sharing service with Italian start-up On. It has contracted with Siemens Smart Infrastructure to deliver the charging infrastructure Read More

VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio, TX is planning a six-month pilot project with NaviLens and the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind to provide an app giving visually impaired residents assistance in using public Read More

Researchers in cybersecurity and civil engineering at the University of California – Berkeley have published a free white paper, “The Cybersecurity Risks of Smart-City Technologies: What do the experts think?”.  The paper is based on a survey Read More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a draft of its Cybersecurity Framework Election Infrastructure Profile to help local election officials prepare for and respond to cyber threats. The guide covers all phases of Read More

The cities of of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole in Britain are conducting a pilot program that will use drone technology to deal with litter. In a partnership with environmental non-profit Hubbub, startup Ellipsis Earth, and fast food Read More