HVV Switch: Multimodal Mobility in Hamburg
When you are using Hamburg’s public transport system, the symbol of a red power plug appears everywhere. This is the symbol of ...
Proximity: The Key to Green and Thriving Neighbourhoods
Smart cities are always looking for ways to make their neighbourhoods greener and more liveable. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...
Digital Twins for Climate Change
Twins are “two offspring produced by the same pregnancy” – but they can also be made up of two similar or connected members, as ...
ULEZ Expansion London
London has one of the world’s most innovative and biggest low-emission zones: Currently, the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) ...
What are smart parks?
Smart cities make us think of technology, apps, sensors, and screens. But there is so much more to an intelligent city of the ...
Building smart cities from scratch
Building cities from scratch to make them smart has become a trend in urban planning. Examples such as Masdar City outside of ...
Open Data and Innovation: Vast Opportunities, Untapped Value
More than a decade ago, governments throughout the world made a radical policy shift from storing data in government silos to ...
Heat resilience in the smart city
As Europe’s temperatures in summer 2023 set yet another terrible record as the highest summer on record, even the last sceptics ...
Women in the Gender-Inclusive Smart City
On July 11th is World Population day and the motto is: Unleashing power of gender quality: Uplifting the voices of women and ...
How the Urban Heat Island Effect is harming our cities
Heat everywhere, especially the cities are effected very hard, this phenomenon has a name called: "Urban Heat Island effect". ...
Smart city preparedness: Which city is ready for the future?
The Swedish software company ProptechOS recently published a smart city index that not only looks at how smart a city already ...
Smart City London: Europe’s Smartest City
London is regularly voted as one of the smartest cities in the world. But what does smartness look like in the British capital? ...
Exploring the Potential of ChatGPT in cities
Open AI’s chatbot ChatGPT has caused widespread debates over the opportunities, benefits and risks that artificial intelligence ...
Smart Sustainable Cities in Spain: The Commitment to a Green Economy
Climate change is currently showing one of its harshest sides. Europe is groaning under the heat and further droughts in ...
Smart City Resilience: Mitigating the Risks of Climate Change
Climate change is a very clear and present danger. Though the term usually conjures up images of melting ice sheets and dying ...