Smart cities

Is innovation really making cities better?

For all the emphasis on world-changing advances, the fact remains that most city governments lack even 1990s-level technology. It doesn't have to be that way.

How Covid-19 is shifting ‘smart city’ priorities

High-profile projects have been scaled down or scrapped. Instead, economic recovery and digital inclusion are the focus.

Sidewalk Labs pulls the plug on Toronto smart city development

The world’s best smart cities don’t just adopt new technology: they make it work for people

How will cities be impacted by the first wave of autonomous cars?

How smart cities could help the visually impaired

For all our sakes’, smart cities need to slow down

How AI can turn “smart” sewers into our first line of flood defences

What Citymapper’s business plan tells us about the future of Smart Cities

A real smart city doesn’t look like something from a science fiction movie

Podcast: Public enterprise

Could the UK really lead the world in electric vehicles?