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Will Denver Embrace Sensor-Filled “Smart City” Community?
Downtown Denver (Photo by Ian Freimuth on flickr) Big corporations, seeking to attract and retain top talent, are opening offices in the downtowns they abandoned decades ago. Coca-Cola moved 2,000...
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6 New Cities Tapped for Bloomberg’s Open Data Initiative
Raleigh, North Carolina (Photo by Sergey Galyonkin on flickr) Bloomberg Philanthropies has added six new cities to its What Works Cities initiative, the organization’s $42 million program to help...
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How One Man on a 75-Pound Bike Took a City’s Temperature
(Courtesy of Nicholas Rajkovich) GPS, fisheye lens camera, barometer, humidity gauge — it’s not a newfangled smartphone, it’s a research-grade weather station mounted on a cargo bike, designed by...
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Chicago Releases User-Friendly Open Data Tool
Millennium Park in Chicago (Photo by Ian Freimuth on flickr) Among cities with open data policies, Chicago routinely ranks near the top. EveryBlock, arguably the first, neighborhood-level, public data...
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This Sensor Could Cut Through Data Clutter of Smart Meters
Jeff Horsburgh and graduate student Miguel Leonardo Feliz work to configure a smart water meter at a campus dormitory building. (Credit: Utah State University) Water metering in many places today is...
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How the City of New Orleans Nudged Residents by Texting
A woman walks in front of the main lobby of the University Medical Center New Orleans. The new center replaces the city's old Charity Hospital, which was damaged during Hurricane Katrina. (AP...
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NYC Getting New Taxi-Hailing App
A taxi stops outside Bryant Park in New York. (AP Photo/John Marshall Mantel) NYC’s yellow and green taxis are getting another app aimed at helping them compete with the likes of Uber. Related Stories...
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Ferry Powered by the “Internet of Things” Pursues a More Efficient Ride
An NYW ferry (Credit: New York Waterway) Last month, New York Waterway (NYW), a private ferry company operating out of ports in New York and New Jersey, announced that it will use a smart, Internet of...
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New Orleans Gamifies the City Budget
New Orleans City Hall (Photo by Diego Delso) New Orleanians can try their hand at being “mayor for a day” with a new interactive website released by the Committee for a Better New Orleans Wednesday....
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Newark Launches Free Coding Program
Newark, New Jersey (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) The city of Newark has been shedding a rough image over the last few years, building up its downtown core and adding employers like Audible and AeroFarms to...
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Game Strengthens Community Links in London Social Housing
Teviot Estate Gaming is a broad church. It encompasses eye-glazing slot machines, slick shoot-‘em-ups, addictive mobile games and participatory city planning tools. Related Stories Norman Foster’s...
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Philly and Google Partner on Park Mapping
A Google Trekker imaging the Grand Canyon (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) People the world over will soon be able to access Philadelphia’s park system — virtually, via Google Maps. After imaging millions of...
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Your City Needs a Local Data Intermediary Now
(Photo by couchmedia via flickr) Imagine if every community nationwide had access to their own data — data on which children are missing too many days of school, which neighborhoods are becoming...
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Sidewalk Labs and Transportation for America Team Up on “Smart Streets”
LinkNYC Internet kiosk (Credit: LinkNYC) The national advocacy group Transportation for America (T4A) and Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced today a...
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Ohio Cities Bring High-Tech Tools to the Fight Against Blight
A vacant building in downtown Cincinnati Until recently, Detroit city officials didn’t even know how many vacant properties the city had, much less which ones they should earmark for teardown or...
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More Accurate Bicycle Counter Could Give Complete Streets Advocates a Boost
Second Avenue in Seattle (Credit: SDOT) In 2013, the League of American Bicyclists released a report, “Where We Ride: An Analysis of Bicycling in American Cities,” which gleaned insight from the...
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S.F. Eyes “Black Boxes” for City Vehicles
Proposed legislation to track city-owned vehicles in San Franciso would exempt law enforcement, for now. (Photo by D.C.Atty via Flickr) In a bid to reduce collisions, save money and encourage safe...
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NYPD Asks Public to Weigh In on Body Camera Program
An L.A. police officer wears a body camera during a demonstration. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Before the NYPD expands its body camera pilot program from 60 officers in five high-crime...
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What the Mayor of Somerville Can Do With His Smartphone
On a recent Friday morning, after gathering his coffee and newspaper, Joseph Curtatone turned his attention to the emerald ash borer, a metallic green beetle that feasts on ash trees. But the mayor of...
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More Cities Could Soon Adopt London’s Contactless Transit Payment System
A woman pays her Tube fare with her phone at Hammersmith Station in London. (Credit: Transport for London) The contactless ticketing system used throughout London’s public transit network will be...
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