Early in the pandemic, Sidewalk Labs — an offshoot of Google — announced it was shutting down a big project in Toronto called Quayside. It was meant to be a testing ground for smart-city concepts, a hyperconnected neighborhood from the ground up, with things like an underground network of package-delivery […]
Suffering the Heat of Climate Change, Cities Seek Retribution
Baltimore is suing major oil and gas companies for spurring the climate crisis and the rising temperatures that have an outsized impact on low-income, urban areas. Jul 22, 2021 For years, an elderly man stood as a regular fixture around his East Baltimore neighborhood for the way he would wander […]
Smart cities are the new champions of placemaking
Written by Jonathan Reichental Jul 1, 2021 | STATESCOOP Innovative technologies are often at the core of smart-city efforts, but time and again, cities all over the world are demonstrating that smartness is a multi-disciplined endeavor. Consider New York City’s Times Square: Home to the famous Broadway Theater District and […]
10 Big Ideas to Improve Life in Small and Midsize Cities
The Future of Everything covers the innovation and technology transforming the way we live, work and play, with monthly issues on health, money, artificial intelligence and more. This month is Cities & Real Estate, online starting June 4 and in the paper on June 11. America’s cities have always been […]