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Philadelphia Gets An Urban Agriculture Plan

The City of Philadelphia’s Parks & Recreation department recently published ‘Growing from the Root’ - ...

England Gives Scooters Audible Signals To Warn Pedestrians

The three rental e-scooter firms that operate in London, England - Tier, Dott, and Lime ...

The Resilient Cities Network Awards Four Cities Grants Towards Community Resilience

Four cities in the US have been selected to receive Resilient Community Impact Funds (RCIFunds) ...

Melbourne, Australia Develops a Tool To Aide With Heat Risk

The city of Melbourne, Australia - in a bid to strengthen its climate resilience - ...

Not Your Average Report: An Overview of Enabling and Sustaining Connected Communities Rooted in Solving Societal Challenges 

America’s smart city journey, which is almost a decade-long*, has been defined by rapid evolution ...

Dresden, Germany Pushes For Solar

The city of Dresden in Germany has created new digital tools with the aim of ...

Chicago, IL, Looks for Sustainable Economic Recovery From Covid-19

Chicago, IL Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, the Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection ...

Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, Hosts The Region’s First Managed Solar Microgrid

The small town of Adjuntas in Puerto Rico, when faced with the aftermath of Hurricane ...

London Launches A New Data Exchange Platform

Urban Data Collective has partnered with the SHIFT innovation district in East London to conduct ...

Boston Names It’s New Director Of Nightlife Economy

Boston, MA, Mayor Michelle Wu has announced the appointment of the Director of Nightlife Economy ...

The United Kingdom Moves towards Digital And Cybersecurity Reform

The United Kingdom’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has chosen eight local ...

New York City Appoints It’s First Chief Public Realm Officer

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently appointed the city’s first Chief Public Realm Officer ...

Nottingham Goes Electric

Nottingham, UK’s City Council has approved a pilot project to power an electric vehicle fleet ...

Seoul, Korea’s Subway App Goes Multilingual

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) in Korea has launched an English language-based subway app for ...

Salt Lake City’s Parks and Streets Collide With New Green Loop Network

Salt Lake City, Utah’s Downtown Plan calls for the development of a Green Loop linear ...

San Francisco’s 13 New Projects Get’s Them Closer To Net Zero

San Francisco, CA has completed its issuance of US $2m in community climate grants with ...

Sweden Introduces The First Self-Driving Ferry

Zeam – which stands for Zero Emission Autonomous Mobility – will soon launch the world’s ...

London’s Getting Clean With Freight Deliveries

Transport for London (TfL) recently presented its new plan to promote and expand the use ...

Wellington, New Zealand Combats Climate Change

The city council of Wellington, New Zealand has a new six-phase Community Climate Adaptation program ...

What Needs to Come Next? Intelligent Infrastructure and Data Spaces

By Philippe Cases, Co-Founder and CEO of Topio Networks The Age of Autonomy is approaching ...

Smart Robots Help Seoul, Korea’s Botanic Park Visitors

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has introduced a smart robot service at the Seoul Botanic ...

Living Close To Green Space Pays

The city of Barranquilla in Colombia has won the World Resources Institute’s US$250,000 grand prize ...

New York City Confronts The Danger Behind Lithium Ion Batteries For Micro Mobility

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has announced an action plan to help ...

Reframing Urban Nature Initiatives

Arup and C40 have released the report ‘Urban Rewilding: the Value and Co-benefits of Nature ...

Smart Cities Get Serious About Cyber Security

Cybersecurity agencies from around the world have joined together to issue the free guide, ‘Cybersecurity ...