Councils need to look for new forms of generating revenue in order to pay for the costly investments that will make their cities smart.

The use of sustainable buildings and construction techniques is a necessity if we want to curb the pollution generated by cities.

The creation of high quality jobs is directly related to the number of people in a certain area. The higher the density, the more innovation there is.

Paul Duan, co-founder and CEO of Bayes Impact, talks about his project and the importance of technology in public services and citizen participation.

Cisco developes Kinetic for Cities, an operative system created to manage public services. Some cities are already trying such technology.

Dispatch centers manage first responders, firefighters and police calls. Digital transformation aim to revolutionise that kind of collaboration.

Singapore’s strategy to turn the city-state into a thriving garden has yielded the kind of results that other countries seek to replicate.

The perfect city has evolved over the centuries from building a large number of temples to reach to the gods to the actual technological paradigm.

Fremantle and Lisbon provide excellent examples of the benefits and the challenges of powering a large city with solar energy.

Rural areas are trying to fight off the depopulation wave. The European Union is proposing digital transformation as a solution for smaller towns.

Energy consumption per capita has been rising since we started measuring it, and it’ll have to be reigned in even in a decarbonised economy

The creator of the vertical forest concept wants to build a new Cancun that pioneers sustainable development with a ratio of 2.3 trees per citizen.

With this milestone, Dubai gets closer to its goal of constructing 25% of its buildings with 3D printing, a faster, cleaner and more efficient technique.

It doesn’t recognise nuclear energy as green. And with the exception of coal, it doesn’t includes a list of sectors that are damaging to the environment.

Informal settlements are plagued by enormous integration and safety issues. Can we solve them? Argentina and South Africa are looking into innovative solutions.

Large commercial ports are cities within cities. And entire economies depend on them running with extreme efficiency.

Scaling up innovative ideas continues to be a challenge when it comes to digital transformation. Regional governments are the perfect test labs for it.

Using the ashes from waste incineration to fabricate building materials is a brilliant example of sustainability, but there are more.

Smart infrastructures require huge investments, but they’ll become one of the most important economic drivers in modern cities.

Modern cities can only feed their populations for a few days before starving. Urban agriculture may improve their resilience in times of crisis.