Feb 5, 2020 | 5G, Featured, Smart Cities
5G has the potential to help cities improve citizen engagement and build an intelligent urban ecosystem around services, ambience, sustainability, inclusion, and equity. 5G has been a hot topic for years, but 2020 will be the year we begin to see 5G come to consumer...
Jan 30, 2020 | Smart Cities
Egypt is busy building a new – as yet unnamed – capital, designed to be the country’s new administrative hub and home to more than 6.5 million residents. The new capital will cover 700 square kilometers, or 270 square miles, making it about the size of...
Jan 22, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Smart Cities
Digital surveillance has grown exponentially in the last few years, and with it the scope and scale of security apparatus deployed across urban environments. How does the visibility—or invisibility—of these technologies elicit performative acts from people at each end...
Jan 15, 2020 | Smart Cities
Smart cities require technology, but that technology is already here, according to panelist Edward Knapp, chief technology officer of the American Tower Corporation during a CES 2020 session. The next step toward developing successful smart cities involves the...
Jan 2, 2020 | Smart Cities
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.” These words of Mark Weiser, the influential godfather of ubiquitous computing, opened his remarkably...
Dec 19, 2019 | Smart Cities
It’s almost as if the community was dreamed up as part of a movie set. But the Suzhou Industrial Park is real and part of a cooperative effort with Singapore. It is a carefully planned area on 27 square miles that a quarter-century earlier had been farmland. Dozens of...
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