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Joe Appleton10 min read

Why Smart Cities need to start getting smart about Water

The impacts of climate change have already begun to cause damage to our planet. The Earth’s landscape has drastically ...
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Sarah Wray7 min read

Smart City Kochi - A vibrant and inclusive city of opportunities

Kochi is a port city on the southwest coast of India and part of the state of Kerala. It is set over 36.6 square miles and has ...
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Dr. Sebastian Schlögl11 min read

City Climate - Modern City Climate Monitoring for Smart Cities

As early as in the 19th century, people recognized that the air quality in rural areas was much better than in urban areas. ...
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Joe Appleton10 min read

Smart Dublin: Future-Proofing The Irish Capital

Dublin is one of Europe’s most vibrant capital cities. Situated on the mouth of the River Liffey, this Irish metropolis has a ...
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Albert Mateu7 min read

COVID-19 and Rethinking Smart Waste Management

For the last two months, every day at 8 pm, I go out to the balcony and together with my neighbours, we clap for all of those ...
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Jon Glasco14 min read

E-Scooters: A Collision Between Innovation And Controversy

In their eagerness to create breakthrough technologies and disruptive platforms, innovators sometimes collide with an ...
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Jon Glasco12 min read

E-Scooters: A Passing Fad or Smart Mobility?

Electric scooters appeal to those who want to move quickly and easily through urban streets at low cost while avoiding ...
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Lisa Smith15 min read

Smart City Lublin: A Smart City with a Social Dimension

Lublin, with a population of 340,000 inhabitants, is the largest economic and academic centre and also the only metropolitan ...
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Thomas Mueller3 min read

AcceliCITY offers paid pilot projects for smart city startups

bee smart city partner Leading Cities is now accepting applications for its second edition of the AcceliCITY smart city startup ...
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Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton4 min read

Cities in Motion: The Unintended Consequences of New Technology

If the science fiction writers of the 1950s had been right, most of us today would travel around in flying cars and pneumatic ...
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Lisa Smith8 min read

Smart City Alba Iulia: Solutions For A Digital City

This city portrait is in two parts. The first part (Alba Iulia Smart City: How Central Romania Quietly Created a Hidden ...
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Lisa Smith9 min read

Alba Iulia Smart City: A Quietly Created Hidden Champion in Europe

This city portrait is in two parts. This first part describes the ambitious plans of the Alba Iulia City Hall as it uses ...
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Lisa Smith8 min read

Seoul Smart City Portrait: Collaboration and Smart Solutions - Part 2

This city portrait is in two parts. The first part, Seoul Smart City: The Power of Citizen Participation, described the ...
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Zigurat Global Institute of Technology5 min read

Smart Buildings: Bio-Climatic Solutions for Smart Building Ventilation

A recurring theme in architecture and construction engineering is that of "sick buildings". In our eagerness to control all the ...
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Lisa Smith9 min read

Smart City Vienna: A Collaborative Smart City

This smart city portrait provides an overview of the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the Austrian ...
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