Smart cities or resilient cities. Does it make any difference?
Worldwide 55 percent of all people live in cities. They cover 4 percent of the landsurface, use 67 percent of all energy that is…
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Amsterdam starts removing shared bicycles
Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool announced that as of September the city of Amsterdam will start removing bikes belonging to bike sharing services, which are placed…
Smart Cities 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. What’s next?
A Smart City 1.0 is a municipality that is maximizing the use of advanced technology as a lever for viability, sustainability, and control. These…
Hyperloop wants to connect 35 US cities
America is lagging behind on infrastructure. People are being priced out of the cities in which they want to live, employers have problems to…
Video: the future of cities
The future of cities is also the future of humankind. That is what Charlie Sorrel states in his article on fastcodesign.com. The reason is,…
Why Smart is the new Green
Smart is the new Green. In the past decades, sustainability was a returning subject everywhere. In politics, business, everywhere. We all knew something had…
Global Cities Summit Dubai: data is becoming a universal language
From March 7 until March 9, the Executive council of Dubai hosted the Global Cities Summit. The summit was organised by the World Council…
Tesla powerpack will store solar power and discharge later
Tesla is building a huge solar project on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Kauai already did have solar panels, but these solar panels…
MWC Barcelona demonstration of how big city will be watching you soon
As said, one of the central themes at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress is Smart Cities. various companies are introducing and demonstrating their technologies,…