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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
Bhubaneswar, the administrative, economic and cultural capital of Odisha, is one of the two cities shortlisted from the state for the 100 Smart Cities nation-wide challenge. The city is an emerging information technology (IT) hub with a strong...
Article - 09/27/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement strategies and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India project, which aims to offer a one-stop shop for government services, would use the mobile phone as the backbone of its delivery mechanism. Five hundred million people will come together on the Internet....
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
Every year since 1999, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) think-tank announces which world city it deems most intelligent after a year-long evaluation that includes a quantitative analysis of extensive data, site inspections by the Intelligent...
Article - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 smart city standard with a look at the 15th of 17 themes defined in the standard -- urban planning indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Policy frameworks and tools
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the fourth of 17 themes defined in the standard – environment indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report...
Article - 08/13/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the second of 17 themes defined in the standard – education indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report)...
Article - 08/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
The United Kingdom's Technology Strategy Board (an advisor to the Smart Cities Council) has just released findings from stage one of its Future Cities Demonstrator Programme. The notice announcing the new report calls out two key findings. First,...
Article - 07/09/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Many smart city observers believe older cities will be left behind. Green-field cities, like those being built from scratch in China, will have a much easier time, they say, since new cities don't have to retrofit legacy infrastructure.In some cases...
Article - 07/01/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership