Respectively the director and associate director of the MIT SENSEAble City Lab, Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman explain how the built environment can talk to us, using digital technology. Continue reading…

Google has confirmed that is developing glasses enabling augmented reality within smart cities. The glasses will give users the capability to simultaneously view the actual physical environment around them along with related computer generated inputs. Continue reading…

A. Townsend, Research Director at the Institute for the Future, talked in yesterday’s WOBI video about top-down and bottom-up smart city solutions. Continue reading…

Jennifer Pahlka, founder and executive director of Code for America, gave a presentation at TEDxPhilly conference. She believes that the value of a city reaches far beyond its borders. Continue reading…

This is a great documentary on the Intelligent Operations Center that IBM recently realized in Rio de Janeiro. Rio frequently suffers from natural disasters; namely severe storms, that cause floods and landslides. Continue reading…

Ericsson’s latest Networked Society  film deals with one of the biggest societal trends today: urbanization. The documentary ‘Thinking Cities’ explores the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in the Networked Society. Continue reading…

Austlalian Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL) published a series of animated films from students and staff from Austlalian Universities, as well as from Melbourne design professionals. These films are a glimpse of a potential sustainable future for the city of Melbourne. Continue reading…

The 2011 TEDxPhilly conference examined vast interpretations of the theme “The City” on Tuesday, November 8. Temple University Director of the Center for Design+Innovation Youngjin Yoo has an excellent “A city as a computing platform” talk. Continue reading…

Adam Greenfield, director of the urban systems design practice ‘Urbanscale’, was present at the Smart Cities Expo, which took place in Barcelona from 29 November to 2 December 2011. In his interview, he refers to the importance of open-data for the creation Continue reading…

Anthony Townsend, research director at the Institute for the Future, gives a short, but discerning interview about the ‘Smart City’ concept and market to Prof. Paddy Miller from IESE Business School, Barcelona. Continue reading…