10 US cities ready for a ‘smart city future’ - Smart Cities Dive
Feb 1, 2023 · "The cities that will thrive in the future will be the ones best adapted to our new and greener ways of living. By looking at a range of factors, including tech infrastructure, sustainability, and the tech-driven job market, we were able to get a better picture of the U.S. and European cities will be leading the way into a smarter future,” said …
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Smart Cities Dive provides in-depth journalism and analysis into the most impactful news and trends shaping smart cities. We cover the latest trends on sustainable, connected, and livable cities.
5 Cities with Congestion Pricing - Smart Cities Dive
Congestion pricing is gathering some inertia in cities worldwide for a few reasons; safety, money, and public desire are among the main ones. Unlike traditional mechanisms to deal with more cars such as, well, building new roads, congestion pricing has had a profound effect on the cities it …
Transportation equity data available in newly updated US DOT …
Dec 16, 2024 · Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Transportation is asking for feedback on its proposed update to an online resource that enables users to identify transportation investments that could be beneficial to disadvantaged communities. Comments may be submitted by hand, mail or online but must be received by Dec. 16, 2024.
The US cities where central business district office vacancy rates …
Dec 6, 2024 · Dive Brief: U.S. central business districts experienced slightly higher average vacancy rates than the commercial real estate market as a whole in the third quarter — 20.3% compared with 20% — according to a Moody’s CRE analysis released Nov. 26.; While downtown office demand exists, it is increasingly focused on top-tier office assets in desirable submarkets “for an improved ...
How cities are building out public EV charging infrastructure
Apr 10, 2024 · Amid federal clean energy policies, automakers’ pledges to transition to zero-emission vehicles and rising consumer demand for electric vehicles, EVs could account for 30 million to 42 million light-duty vehicles on the road by 2030, according to analysts from the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.. NREL’s 2030 National Charging Network report, which sets a framework for EV ...
Urbanism: Reconsidering Seaside, Florida | Smart Cities Dive
I'm hardly the only one whose career was strongly influenced by the now-iconic planned town of Seaside, on Florida's Panhandle coast. If I hadn't run across an article about Seaside, designed by new urbanist stalwarts Duany Plater-Zyberk – and, around the same time, visionary architect Peter Calthorpe's book about transit-oriented development …
Google’s top AI tools for cities in 2024 | Smart Cities Dive
Jan 23, 2024 · The company’s Google Maps product is an example of a combination of real-world modeling and artificial intelligence, Raghavan said. Its data has allowed Google to work with cities to provide flood and wildfire alerts, as well as to provide fire propagation modeling to the U.S. Forest Service.Google Maps has also begun offering “eco-friendly” routing to users, suggesting the shortest but ...
Twenty of the Best Quotes About Sustainable Cities
It's been almost four years since our first post on Tumblr, and that first post was a quote.Since then we've shared hundreds of our favourite quotes about sustainable cities, compiling a list of our favourites over two years ago. Now it's time for another compilation!
10 Blogs Every Urbanist Should Read - Smart Cities Dive
I've excluded Austin blogs and blogs that focus on just one city. These are in no particular order. 1. Ryan Avent Elegant writing on urban economics and transit. 2. Creative Class Richard Florida's consistently interesting ideas on why some cities flourish and others do not. 3. …