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 ...
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 ...
Smart Health: How can smart city technology leverage wellbeing?
Lessons learned from the pandemic have made health a key area of the smart city. The evolution of technologies that improve ...
Rise of the Smartivist: The Importance of Citizens for Smart Cities
The human element is something that has been largely neglected in the first generations of smart cities around the globe. ...
How Smart Cities Are Boosting Citizen Engagement
According to statistics from the United Nations Population Fund, over half of the planet’s population lives in cities. By the ...
Leading North American Smart Cities to Watch in 2019
In a 2018 report completed by the Eden Strategy Institute, 12 of the globe’s 20 smartest cities were located in the USA. ...
Why The Smart Home Is Facilitating Smart Communities
As John Friedmann highlights (2011), the household is just as much a socio-political space as the public realm: although it may ...