Tag: smart cities

• Matter Takes Shape with Launches from Amazon, Samsung, and More

  November 3, 2022

  The Connected Standards Alliance and its members took to Amsterdam Thursday to showcase Matter, a newly-released universal smart home standard that promises to simplify the connected home. https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/matter-takes-shape-with-launches-from-amazon-samsung-and-more/ more ›

• Reimagining the future of Google Home

  October 6, 2022

  When we built the Google Home app nearly 10 years ago, our average user had fewer than three devices. Now the average US household has 25 connected devices and it’s… more ›

• The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states

  December 21, 2020

  “Smart city” is one of those science fiction phrases seemingly designed to make you uneasy, like “neuromarketing” or “pre-crime”. It’s impossible to be alive in this decade and not find… more ›

• COVID-19 is shifting the focus from smart cities to resilient cities

  November 2, 2020

  The COVID-19 crisis has focused the minds of local governments on the need to build resilience into their recovery strategies. Despite severe budget challenges globally, cities such as London and Tel Aviv, have… more ›

• The Ringification of Suburban Life

  September 29, 2019

  Across the US, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring,… more ›

• Essay: The street as platform

  September 3, 2019

  I was recently asked to comment on ‘the street of the future’; a response for a quango responsible for the built environment and a government department responsible for transport, roads… more ›

• Inside the Shifting Plans for Toronto’s Smart City of Tomorrow

  June 26, 2019

  What happens when a group of high-profile urban thinkers, capitalized by the vast wealth of a tech goliath, snags a parcel of public waterfront in a major North American city… more ›

• The elements of networked urbanism | Speedbird

  February 5, 2014

  The elements of networked urbanism | Speedbird »   1. From latent to explicit; 2. From browse to search; 3. From held to shared; 4. From expiring to persistent; 5.… more ›