The idea of smart cities is starting to take shape as the digital era develops. A city that has developed a public-private infrastructure to support waste management, energy, transportation, water ...

Smart cities represent the convergence of urbanization, digital transformation, and sustainability goals through integrated technological frameworks. As urban centers face unprecedented population ...

More than a decade since the smart city concept gained traction, local governments continue shaping the general idea to suit their needs, with its purpose evolving from solution-based toward a ...

India’s Smart City Mission is presented as a major urban modernization effort aimed at improving life in 100 cities through ...

RTI data shows post-mission spending in Punjab, sparking demands for independent review over ‘overlapping’ projects and ...

Like endless waves of Ganga flowing by the ghats, so people flock to Varanasi’s spiritual zones with unwavering commitment.

In May 2020, the smart city concept appeared to have been dead and buried when Sidewalk Labs ended its collaboration with the City of Toronto to create Quayside, a data-infused, sustainability-focused ...

Imagine a city where self-driving electric cars whiz along roads designed exclusively for them. The sidewalks are a mix of people and robots going about their daily business. A drone flies overhead to ...

Urban technologies were meant to connect, protect, and enhance the lives of citizens. What happened? In 1959, in a short essay called “The Great Game to Come,” a little-known Dutch visual artist named ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...