Laura Puttkamer
City Portrait: Smart City Espoo
Espoo is Finland’s second biggest city. With close to 300,000 inhabitants, it is home to many education and research institutes ...
Urban October 2023: Challenges and Opportunities in Cities
Every year, UN-Habitat celebrates Urban October, a month where everyone is part of the conversation about the challenges and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How can urban planners and architects benefit from ChatGPT?
In this next installment of our series on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the future city, we look at the benefits ...