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Jon Glasco11 min read

5G Enables Smart City Innovation

Mobile operators worldwide are investing in 5G networks, and proponents of this much-hyped technology believe it will enable a ...
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Joe Appleton10 min read

Smart Dublin: Future-Proofing The Irish Capital

Dublin is one of Europe’s most vibrant capital cities. Situated on the mouth of the River Liffey, this Irish metropolis has a ...
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Joe Appleton8 min read

How Will Urban Mobility Change In The Post-Covid City

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a tremendous impact on people’s everyday lives. Changes to our regular routines have been coming ...
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Joe Appleton8 min read

The 15-Minute City: Nurturing Communities For Smarter Cities

The term “smart city” has a different meaning for different people. For most, it conjures up a vision of a technologically ...
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Jon Glasco12 min read

Mobility as a Service: A Blueprint for Disruption?

In less than a decade, the concept known as mobility as a service (MaaS) has captured the imagination of visionaries and ...
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Jon Glasco14 min read

E-Scooters: A Collision Between Innovation And Controversy

In their eagerness to create breakthrough technologies and disruptive platforms, innovators sometimes collide with an ...
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Jon Glasco12 min read

E-Scooters: A Passing Fad or Smart Mobility?

Electric scooters appeal to those who want to move quickly and easily through urban streets at low cost while avoiding ...
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Lily Maxwell7 min read

Rising Stars: Eight Smart Cities in Asia to Watch in 2019 - Part 2

As we saw in our last article on Asian smart city stars, urban centers in Asia are facing mass urbanization on a much more ...
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Lisa Smith15 min read

Smart City Lublin: A Smart City with a Social Dimension

Lublin, with a population of 340,000 inhabitants, is the largest economic and academic centre and also the only metropolitan ...
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Lily Maxwell16 min read

Boyd Cohen on the Future of Smart Cities

The importance of smart cities & smart citizens: In our interview series, smart city leaders comment on the future of smart ...
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Thomas Mueller3 min read

AcceliCITY offers paid pilot projects for smart city startups

bee smart city partner Leading Cities is now accepting applications for its second edition of the AcceliCITY smart city startup ...
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Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton4 min read

Cities in Motion: The Unintended Consequences of New Technology

If the science fiction writers of the 1950s had been right, most of us today would travel around in flying cars and pneumatic ...
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Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton6 min read

Smart Cities are Influenced by the Past, but They Look to the Future

When we think of smart cities, we tend to think in futuristic terms. We often use the language and iconography of futurism to ...
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Jon Glasco9 min read

Smart Mobility: Challenges and Solutions in Smart Cities

Urban mobility is described as the lifeblood of modern cities, a critical economic factor, and a facilitator of smart, ...
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Jon Glasco8 min read

Bologna: The Evolution of a Collaborative Smart City

Bologna, the seventh-largest city in Italy and capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, was recently named as one of the top three ...
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