Despite what certain TV property shows might suggest, we aren’t all escaping to the country. In fact, globally the tendency is towards an increasingly urbanised world population. Continue reading…

A “ghost town” will be build from scratch in the State of New Mexico, USA, to be used as a testbed for future Smart City technology. The city will be built by Pegasus Holdings and its New Mexico subsidiary, CITE Development. Continue reading…

What was earlier known as ‘modern’ is nowadays giving way to smart. ‘Smart Grid’ is a digital enabler for Continue reading…

Design Mind presents a special digital issue exclusively on the future of urban living. According to magazine the adoption of ubiquitous computing, mobile devices, and rich sources of data are changing how we live, work, and play in urban environments. Continue reading…

According to a new market research report, the Smart City market is growing at an amazing pace, at 14.2% annual growth rate, and it is expected to reach more than 1$ trillion in a few years. Continue reading…

Around half of the world’s population currently lives in urban settings, and it has been projected to increase to two-thirds, or 6 billion people, by 2050. The challenge Continue reading…

In this recent report, Siemens demonstrates tools and applications to make neighborhoods and cities more resilient, efficient, and more livable. Continue reading…

The White Paper focuses on how European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming “smarter cities” and the lessons we can draw for the future. Such strategies are based on an assessment of the future needs of cities and innovative usages of ICTs embodied in the broadband Internet and Internet-based applications now and foreseen for the future. These strategies are also based on a new understanding of innovation, Continue reading…

The ongoing tendency of the world population towards large urban centres is a known trend, with predictions estimating that approximately 75% of the world’s population will reside in cities by the year 2050. This staggering population growth can result in urban overcrowding in a massive scale, Continue reading…

In the wake of the 2011 9.0 eathquake and tsunami that caused the disaster in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan has started a switch towards safer and more environmentally friendly energy sources Continue reading…