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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...