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Thomas Mueller5 min read
Leading Cities and QBE Announce 2025 Top 100 Smart City Startups Advancing Urban Resilience
The Top 100 semi-finalist startups for the 2025 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge have been announced. Discover the 2025 Top 100 Resilience Solutions!
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Jon Glasco5 min read
Smart Munich: A Beacon of Innovation in Bavaria
Munich, Germany's smartest city and an urban tech powerhouse, is applying innovative smart city solutions to meet the needs of an evolving urban society.
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Bart Gorynski2 min read
Rise of the Smartivist: The Importance of Citizens for Smart Cities
Cities recognize the importance of smart citizens for the creation of solutions tailored to the needs of residents. Active citizens are smartivists.
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Thomas Mueller3 min read
Grevenbroich approves Smart City Strategy
On December 12, 2024, the Grevenbroich City Council approved the Smart City Strategy, developed in collaboration with bee smart city and Detecon.
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Thomas Mueller5 min read
High Dynamics in the Smart City Development of German Metropolises
The Smart City Index 2024 demonstrates significant dynamism in the rankings and confirms that German cities are driving smart city transformation forward.
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Thomas Mueller4 min read
Germany's cities are advancing the transition to Smart Cities
Germany's cities are advancing the transition to Smart Cities. This is according to the new 2024 Smart City Ranking by Haselhorst Associates Consulting.
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Lisa Smith8 min read
Amsterdam Smart City: A World Leader in Smart City Development
This smart city portrait provides an overview of the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
City Portrait: Smart City Copenhagen
Denmark’s capital city is regularly voted as one of the world’s most liveable and smart cities. At 602,000 inhabitants, it is a ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
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? ...
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Barcelona Smart City: A Journey Towards a Citizen-Centric Smart City
This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Smart City Stockholm: A connected, sustainable, data-driven city
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the country’s largest city. Built on 14 islands and connected by over 50 bridges, the ...
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Joe Appleton10 min read
How the Urban Heat Island Effect is harming our cities
Heat is prevalent everywhere, with cities being particularly hard hit by a phenomenon known as the "Urban Heat Island effect." ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
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 ...
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Jon Glasco8 min read
Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City
Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity. This year, ...
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Joe Appleton5 min read
Renewable Energy in Urban Communities
In the rapidly urbanizing world, the quest for sustainable living has become more crucial than ever. With rising demands from ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
The Line: A 170-km long future city in Saudi Arabia’s desert
Do cities always have to have cars, streets, and carbon emissions? Do they even need to have a roughly circular layout? Saudi ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
A water smart city: Learning from Singapore
March 22 marks the annual World Water Day, a United Nations observance day highlighting the importance of fresh water. It is ...
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Jon Glasco8 min read
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 ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Smart City Tallinn: City Portrait
Estonia’s capital city Tallinn is one of the most advanced smart cities in the world. The city by the Baltic Sea is also the ...
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Kimberly Rittner6 min read
How Smart Cities Can Use Renewable Energy Sources
The world's population is growing steadily. According to the United Nations, the world's population will grow to 9.7 billion ...
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Joe Appleton11 min read
The Top 10 Smart Cities In Asia (Updated 2021)
Asia is one of the most exciting continents on the planet, with rapidly evolving economies, fertile economic ecosystems, and ...
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Laura Puttkamer6 min read
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 ...
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Joe Appleton8 min read
What is IoT (Internet of Things)? Why is it important for Smart Cities?
Ever since the idea of a smart city was first introduced, Internet of Things technology has been a key pillar of smart city ...
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Dr. Alexander Gelsin3 min read
Benefits of Smart Street Lighting Solutions in Smart Cities
The role of smart lighting solutions in the intelligent transformation of cities and buildings has gained momentum in the past ...
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Sarah Wray5 min read
Smart City Bhubaneswar: A Citizen-Centered Approach for Smart Growth
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the state of Odisha in India. Known as “the Temple City”, it is an emerging hub for education, ...
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Rocío Moreno5 min read
Smart and Sustainable Cities: What Does It Mean?
The smart cities agenda focuses on improving citizens quality of life by enhancing a city's infrastructure using new ...
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Dr. Zvi Weinstein5 min read
Op Ed: Why is it called a Smart City?
In this article, I would like to explore the ongoing debate surrounding the term "smart city" and its relevance in addressing ...
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Smart Munich: A Beacon of Innovation in Bavaria
Munich, the third-largest city in Germany and the capital of Bavaria, is a dynamic centre of commerce and finance - and a ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Smart City Tallinn: City Portrait
Estonia’s capital city Tallinn is one of the most advanced smart cities in the world. The city by the Baltic Sea is also the ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Smart City Portrait Florence
Florence is the capital of Italy’s beautiful Tuscany region and is known for hosting many masterpieces of Renaissance art and ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
City Portrait: Smart Bristol
Bristol, a city of almost half a million in the southwest of England, was the first British city to be named European Green ...
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Laura Puttkamer6 min read
City Portrait: Smart Grenoble
Grenoble is a city of about 160,000 inhabitants in southeastern France, known for its winter sport, its museums and ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
City Portrait: Smart Umea
Umeå or Umea is a fast-growing Swedish city, 600 km north of Stockholm. The 11th largest city in the country, it has a ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
City Portrait: Getting Smart in Ghent
Ghent is the third-largest city in Belgium after Brussels and Antwerp. The capital of the East Flanders region is known for its ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Smart City Espoo: Co-Creation, Innovation, and Sustainable Solutions
Espoo is Finland’s second biggest city. With close to 300,000 inhabitants, it is home to many education and research institutes ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Leuven Smart City Strategy - Networked, Smart, Climate-Neutral
Leuven in Belgium is not only the country’s beer capital and home to the Stella Artois brewery, but also a spectacularly ...
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Smart City Vienna: In Conversation
In today's rapidly evolving urban landscapes, cities around the world are endeavouring to integrate technology and innovation ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
City Portrait: Smart City Copenhagen
Denmark’s capital city is regularly voted as one of the world’s most liveable and smart cities. At 602,000 inhabitants, it is a ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
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 ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
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? ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
Smart City Stockholm: A connected, sustainable, data-driven city
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the country’s largest city. Built on 14 islands and connected by over 50 bridges, the ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read
The Line: A 170-km long future city in Saudi Arabia’s desert
Do cities always have to have cars, streets, and carbon emissions? Do they even need to have a roughly circular layout? Saudi ...
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Lisa Smith8 min read
Amsterdam Smart City: A World Leader in Smart City Development
This smart city portrait provides an overview of the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of ...
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Sarah Wray5 min read
Smart City Bhubaneswar: A Citizen-Centered Approach for Smart Growth
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the state of Odisha in India. Known as “the Temple City”, it is an emerging hub for education, ...
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Jon Glasco8 min read
Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City
Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity. This year, ...
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Smart City Vilnius: Embracing the Arts and Cultural Heritage
After surviving decades of occupation by a foreign power, how does a city restore and capture the value of its strengths in the ...
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Lily Maxwell10 min read
Smart City Antwerp: The European Capital of Things
Antwerp is the economic hub of Belgium; as the Mayor of Antwerp, Bart de Wever, is fond of saying, “Antwerp is the city where ...
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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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