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How Can Citizen Innovation Help Solve Urban Challenges?
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has focused the 2015 NYC BigApps competition on identifying technologies to expand access to affordable housing, improve public safety, better connect citizens with...
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New York City Considers Quieting Taxi TVs
New York’s Taxi TVs were first discussed in 2003 and widely implemented in 2007. (AP Photo/Teru Iwasaki) New York City is looking to phase those annoying Taxi TVs out of service, and it’s a long time...
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Mapping a Transportation Plan B on an L.A. Freeway
With pilot program “Connected Corridors,” several California agencies are studying a stretch of I-210. (Credit: Google Maps) Anyone who listened to “Serial,” Sarah Koenig’s viral podcast about a...
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City of Boston Runs Into Social Media Trouble
Most cities and municipal politicians grasp how social media can help deliver a message straight to residents (though City Lab pointed out earlier this year that many cities don’t own their names on...
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U.K. Town Tests Next Step in Free WiFi
A U.K. District official in Chesham, where Virgin Media is testing free WiFi (Credit: Virgin Media) While Mayor Bill de Blasio and incubator Sidewalk Labs want to convert old pay phones into a source...
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Houston Data-Sharing Project Is Already Connecting the Dots
Cross-sectoral partnerships are helping Texas researchers get more out of big data, and one collaboration examined governance at the Houston Ship Channel. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Silos are...
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5 Cities Try Online Gaming to Train Firefighters
(Photo by Sean Marshall on Flickr) Developers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, which has created several training programs for firefighters, are working with five city fire...
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This App Guides Blind Passengers Through London’s Subway
Wayfindr uses audio instructions to help visually impaired users navigate the London Underground. (Credit: Ustwo) For those who are visually impaired, even the best infrastructure and public...
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The Lamppost That Could Improve Cell Service and Make Money for Cities
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) As demand for reliable cell service for calls and data increases, cities are having to get increasingly creative with the ways they ensure that service is reliable. New York...
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Health Professor Turns to Space for Malaria Cure
Shamans outside Lima, Peru, hold up a statue of baby Jesus, or “El Nino” in Spanish, during a ritual asking for protection from El Niño. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) The Amazon sounds like an exotic place...
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3 U.S. Cities Sign Up to “Get Smart” With AT&T
Dallas is one of three places that will work with AT&T on smart city technology. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade, File) Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago will get an AT&T smart city ecosystem of services...
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Why Cities Must Become Smarter, Now
Sponsored content from World Smart City Forum. Related Stories European Commission Calls for More Openness on “Smart Cities”How Will Kansas City Run Its Plugged-In, Sensor-Filled Future?ShotSpotter...
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Baltimore Gets On-Demand Ride Alternative to Uber, Lyft
A Yellow Checker Cab in Baltimore (Photo by urbanfeel via flickr) Baltimore residents who prefer to hail a ride with a mobile app now have an alternative to Uber or Lyft: zTrip. Related Stories Will a...
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Nature Offers Clues to Designing for Health
(Photo by Mikelzubi) Imitating nature might benefit fields from material engineering to urban planning, a group called the Biomimicry Institute says. Can it also improve artificial limbs? Related...
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San Jose Is Getting “Future-Proof” Wireless Network
“Smart cities” are using sensors to do everything from monitor streetlights for maintenance to scan license plates, above. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) Parking spaces in Boston alert drivers to their...
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Houston’s High-Tech Solution to Connecting the Homeless With Housing
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Last week cities across the U.S. dispatched volunteers to count the homeless men and women unsheltered on their streets as part of the annual, HUD-mandated Point-In-Time...
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L.A. Opens Up More With New Data Tool
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon) In late January, the city of Los Angeles unveiled a new open data visualization tool called GeoHub. City officials say the project marks an evolution in municipal open data...
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Mayors Must Step Up for Broadband
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Broadband is a basic necessity to communicate in the 21st century. According to a recent Pew report, now more than ever Americans see home Internet service as a key tool...
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How Technology Is Changing Street Surveying
A Google car records images for Google’s Street View. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) As more and more cities adopt Vision Zero initiatives, that means more and more researchers and civil servants must...
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In Pursuit of Big Data, Mexico City Mapathon Gamifies Crowdsourcing
Participants in a Mexico City mapathon helped to pin down the routes of a sprawling bus system. Mexico City has over 1,500 ya-kinda-just-gotta-know-about-them bus routes making up one of the largest...
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