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Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.
Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.
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Opinions
We ask cities and industry experts from around the world to give us their opinion on smart city technology and challenges.
Micromobility05 Apr 2022by Douglas Stark: Co-Founder And Coo, Voi
Douglas Stark, co-founder and COO of Voi, wants to use micromobility to replace one billion car rides across Europe by 2030 and explains some of the initiatives the company has launched to tackle the challenges ahead.
Opinions23 Oct 2019by Babak Beheshti: Dean, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, New York Institute of Technology
The speed at which 5G is deployed worldwide will have a significant impact on how soon it will become the defining technology of smart cities, says Babak Beheshti.
As prediction technology advances and algorithms are refined, smart cities worldwide are set to make big strides with improving urban mobility in the years to come. Radim Cmar, Solution Architect for Smart Cities at navigation app Sygic, looks ahead to how things could develop.
Opinions17 Jul 2017by Dr Arshad Saleem and Prof. Robert Lagerström
A truly digital, smart grid is within reach, but we can’t safely implement it without robust security, write Dr Arshad Saleem and Prof. Robert Lagerström
Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.
In this edition, we focus on Dortmund in western Germany. With around 600,000 inhabitants, Dortmund is the eighth-largest city in Germany and the gateway to the Rhine-Ruhr region in the heart of Europe.
Redesign is a cornerstone of the City’s transformative downtown redevelopment strategy, positioning it as a model for equitable and sustainable urban growth.
Neom is investing in autonomous driving company Pony.ai and electric seaglider company Regent to advance plans for zero-emission, multimodal transport.
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