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While life-as-usual remains disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, cities rely increasingly on community-based and often digitally-enabled sharing of knowledge, skills and resources. These emergent forms of ‘communal sharing’ cannot be explained through instrumentally-beneficial economic discourses or structurally-disruptive political narratives alone. Rather, they call for revaluing the interdependent social relations that digital platforms enable and maintain. Drawing from a relational ontolo...

The university will work with the real estate leader on developing sustainable, zero-carbon projects It's been just six months since Concordia launched...

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[Revealed]: The Secret Tech That Makes Elon Musks Smart City a Reality You may not notice it, but the world around you is changing drastically. Earlier this year, for the first time ever, New York City’s beloved Empire State Building became a smart-energy skyscraper that is now 100% powered by wind. Last summer in Chattanooga, city officials completed the installation of its Ultra Smart Streetlight system, created by Global Green Lighting. The system uses a technology called the FlexNet light...

Information Policy Stats Are smart cities the key to resilience? The word ‘rebuild’ has been the focal point of a lot of discussions around recovery. How can we rebuild our place economies back to pre-pandemic levels? How can we rebuild the footfall to our city centres? And how can we do this so that our places are more resilient against future shocks? The smartest response isn’t to just recreate the same processes as we were used to pre-pandemic, but to understand how we can refine and ...

European cities hit key smart technology milestone with €250m investment London, Lisbon, Milan, Bordeaux, Burgas and Warsaw trigger investment in smart technologies as part of Sharing Cities programme Share this item with your network: By Published: 08 Feb 2021 14:58 The UK may have left the European Union, but London, in a scheme led by mayor Sadiq Khan (pictured above), is working closely with other European nations to build workable business models for smart technologies. Launched in...