Xiongan: President Xi Jin Ping’s own smart city
Calling Beijing busy is an understatement: Apart from its lively city life the town is notorious crowded, polluted and congested. Yet, for years authorities…
Urban planning and building
General principles of successful strategic urban planning
Managing housing markets, transport networks, river basins, energy supplies and investment in skills requires coordination across multiple local governments. The solution is strategic planning….
Case Study Japan: GIS-technologies in urban planning
This case study describes how geographic information system (GIS) technologies facilitate urban planning in Japan. It draws on examples from three components of urban…
Does smartification keep de-urbanization at arms length?
Smart cities intent deploying big data, information and communication technology to become more sustainable and livable. At best, they proceed not only in favour…
Songdo, model of the smart and sustainable city of the future
Songdo International Business District in South Korea is a prime example of a new city that brings together the world’s best technologies, building design…
Seoullo 7017: recycling a highway into city park
Two weeks ago the grand opening of Seoullo 7017 took place in the Korean capital Seoul. A 16 metre high overdue highway overpass was…
Google helps build smart cities with Sidewalk Labs
Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet (Googles parent) company is looking for cities that have land available to redevelop. They have vision: reimagining cities from the…
Xiongan: China will turn farmland into a Megacity
China has big plans, plans to build Xiongan. A complete new megacity, twice the size of New York City, about 100 kilometres south of…
‘Smart City As A Service’: made in South Korea
Why invent the smart city wheel by yourself, if others have already successfully done so? India has asked the South Korean Land & Housing…
South Korea exports Smart City Concept into Kuwait
In designing the city of the future, why not start building one from scratch, instead of dealing with the legacy of an ‘unsmart city’….