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Smart City Strategy

Cities around the globe are becoming smart. However, they are following different strategic approaches and a "smart city" can be defined in different ways. With our smart city strategy insights, we shed light on the latest trends in terms of smart city evolution, strategic approaches, project implementation methods and the role of different stakeholders. Learn how other cities become smart and implement smart city strategies. 

Laura Puttkamer5 min read

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 ...
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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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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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Laura Puttkamer5 min read

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 ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read

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 ...
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Laura Puttkamer5 min read

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 ...
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Jon Glasco9 min read

How Smart Cities adapt to extreme heat waves

In the animated film Rango, life-threatening heat plays a role in the story. In an opening scene, the protagonist staggers ...
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Joe Appleton4 min read

Interview: 5 Minutes with Carlos Moreno

We were lucky enough to listen to an exciting talk by Carlos Moreno at an event in Poznan in October 2022. After the event, we ...
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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 ...
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Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton5 min read

10 Ways to Envision a Smart City

What is a smart city and how is it different from our traditional notion of a city? There is no single definition for a smart ...
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