Commisionned by Grupo Karim's, and designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, the first Smart Forest City in Mexico will focus on innovation and environmental quality. The city balances green and built spaces, and is completely food and energy self-sufficient.
Taking road space from motorists can be politically risky, but in Milan – one of Europe’s most congested cities – it’s starting to pay off.
In 2018, the municipality launched its Piazze Aperte ‘Open Squares’ initiative, using paint and planters, benches and ping-pong tables to reclaim public space for people to enjoy.
XZERO is a planned sustainable community that can provide a low-carbon lifestyle for 100,000 residents in balance with nature.
Székesfehérvár was the first city among the cities with county rights to launch a city mobile application, which helped to provide quick and reliable information to Székesfehérvár residents during the coronavirus epidemic. In addition to the latest news and information, it can also be used for map-based bug reports and to report city operation problems.
Self-driving car robots will patrol the city to detect dangerous situations while IoT-powered collecting bins will be wheeled out to help improve the recycling rate of domestic waste. Seoul has announced, that self-driving car robots will patrol the city to detect dangerous situations or to spray disinfectant.
In 2016, the municipality of the Hungarian capital city approved for the first time the preparation of a brownfield and unused areas cadastre covering the entire territory of Budapest, together with a continuously updated database.
Norrköping, while had to face major challenges when the inner harbor was being transformed into an integrated part of the city with new homes, canals, baths and parks, developed a visualization tool giving professional and public stakeholders the possibility to see and interact with contaminations in a whole new way. The land to be renewed is among the most polluted in the country and the rehabilitation measures are estimated to cost up to SEK 450 million.
Citydev.brussels (formerly SDRB) helps enterprises find a suitable operating site in the Brussels Region. In addition, it builds houses for private individuals within the context of urban renovation projects.
The projects of citydev.brussels are aimed at two target groups: enterprises and private individuals.
The smart sewer inspection system will be deployed in every district of Seoul next year. Seoul is set to become the first city in Korea to use artificial intelligent (AI) technologies to identify defects in its sewer network.
The London Borough of Harrow has added high-definition street-level imagery and lidar data to its corporate GIS system, giving staff access to an accurate digital twin of the borough.
The move is designed to improve the efficiency of various tasks in planning, highways and council tax and reduce the overall need for physical site visits.