Safe cities
The reduction of crime is not primarily to be expected from effective police work, despite the best technological support, but from a society with…
Governance and economy
Climate-neutral cities
The world has not achieved its short-term objectives: instead of the intended reduction in CO2-emissions, global emissions increased by 1.6 % in 2017 and…
Future Cities: Smart by default. Humane by choice
Smart City Hub brings you an exciting new series of essays: “Future Cities: Smart by default. Humane by choice”. Every few weeks, a new…
Smart city? Smart mayor!
I have been writing about smart cities for some years. I wondered which advice I would give to the mayor if she asked me…
Unique eBook: Smart City Tales
Herman van den Bosch has been a writer at the Smart City Hub platform for quite some time now and has published many of…
Smart cities, smarter management
Smart management could help to run the smart city projects efficiently and effectively by viewing the smart city initiative as a unique complex project…
Smart city governance
At June 21th, I attended the conference Next generation cities: Who owns the city. This conference was part of the five-day WeMakeThe.City festival in…
Amsterdam: better than ‘smart’
Since November 2016 I am curator of Amsterdam Smart City. I’ve shared impressions and opinions through a series of blog posts, here on Smart…
The role of cities in the pursuance of the Paris Agreement
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is already in existence for more than 12 years and represents 96 of the world’s greatest cities with together more…
What is a Digital City Brand?
The term “digital city brand”, which we have coined, is made up of the three separate terms “digital”, “city” and “brand”, which are also…