The neighbourhood of Merwede is being rebuilt from the ground, shaping a nearly car-free district with interior gardens in each block.

Living concrete is a sustainable building material with many benefits. What is and how it could change the construction industry?

Suburban living implies many challenges. How can technologies and policies be helpful to improve its sustainability?

Researchers have developed a new kind of wooden material that can trap and release heat in an intelligent fashion, paving the way to more efficient homes.

One person, one vote was not always the case. Citizen participation in government has drastically evolved through history.

Built for private and professional river cruises, it’s the first ship in its class to make use of reclaimed car batteries.

Invisible biases can be injected in facial recognition software by its programmers. A huge problem in the way of the fair application of justice.

Radical digital transformation has resulted in a new way to comprehend data generated by cities, but also how services and citizens communicate with each other.

Car makers continue to push hydrogen as a clean and inexhaustible oil substitute. But behind that promise, there are numerous hurdles to account for.

Self-driving cars won’t be of much help alleviating traffic jams, as congestion adapts to road capacity.

Artificial intelligence doubles its energy consumption every few months. Widespread deployment in cities will accentuate this trend.

Spearheaded by Toyota, Woven City will be a new city in Japan pioneering new ideas and concepts in one of the world’s most densely populated countries.

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.