Tag: smart cities
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Beautiful models, unused decisions
This week’s episodes of What is The Future for Cities? podcast turn on a gap that is now hard to ignore. We can build extraordinarily sophisticated digital replicas of cities. We are much less good at getting those replicas into the rooms where planning actually happens. Tuesday’s research debate (457R) unpacked a 2025 systematic literature…
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Blockchain governance: revolutionary tool or risky experiment for cities?
This week on the What is the future for cities? podcast, we released two episodes that push the boundaries of how cities might be governed tomorrow. Episode 379R presented a sharp debate on Aiman Erbad‘s 2025 book chapter about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) adoption for smart-city governance, weighing radical participation against serious risks of exclusion…
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363R_transcript_Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities
Check out the episode: You can find the shownotes through this link. Are you interested in urban traffic safety and its effects on urban planning? Our summary today works with the article titled Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities from 2024, by Mohamed Elassy, Mohammed Al-Hattab, Maen Takruri, and Sufian Badawi, published in the…
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363R_Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities
Check out the episode: You can find the transcript through this link. Are you interested in urban traffic safety and its effects on urban planning? Debate of the article titled Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities from 2024, by Mohamed Elassy, Mohammed Al-Hattab, Maen Takruri, and Sufian Badawi, published in the Transportation Engineering journal.…
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From opinions on smart cities to partnerships for the future: Five takeaways on smart cities
This week on the What is the future for cities? podcast, two episodes explored the human side of smart cities and how they can adapt over time. Tuesday’s research episode summarised the 2021 article “What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in…
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346I_Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and Guerry Professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC)
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Smart City should be proactive. That before anything [bad] happens would identify areas that need more attention.” Are you interested in the proactive nature of smart cities? What do you think about the need for infrastructure to create adaptability? How can we utilise public-private-academic partnerships for better…
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AI’s Running Cities—Are We Steering or Just Along for the Ride?
Week in Review: Agentic AI and Nick Bray on Who Runs the Future This week’s What is The Future for Cities? Podcast episodes—303 and 304—threw us into the deep end of AI’s urban takeover. From agentic AI acting on its own to Nick Bray’s call for human control, it’s been a ride. Here’s what we…
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287R_transcript_Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead
Check out the episode: You can find the shownotes through this link. Are you interested in smart citizens instead of smart cities? Our summary today works with the article titled Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead from 2012 by Dan Hill, published first on the CityofSound blog, then on…
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287R_Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead
Check out the episode: You can find the transcript through this link. Are you interested in smart citizens instead of smart cities? Summary of the article titled Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead from 2012 by Dan Hill, published first on the CityofSound blog, then on Medium. This is…
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229R_transcript_Beyond smart: How ICT is enabling sustainable cities of the future
Listen to the episode: Check out the shownotes through this link. Are you interested in how information systems help sustainability? Our summary today works with the article titled Beyond smart: How ICT is enabling sustainable cities of the future from 2023 by Hanifa Shah, published in Sustainability journal. This is a great preparation to our…
