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Discover 50 solutions already fighting back against climate change – and delivering measurable results.
UNMISSABLE TALKS OF SMART CITY EXPO 2025
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2050: Designing Future Cities Today
Strategic Optimism for Smart Cities: Creating Urban Innovation That Amplifies Human Potential
How Cities Can Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles
Inclusive and Equitable Cities: What We Need and What We Lack?
Urban Sustainability Redefined: Climate Tech & AI came into play
Housing for Growing Cities: Building Equity Through Design and Policy
Future Mobility: The Innovations That Will Stick
Reimagining Our Future Cities with AI: Services, Safety, and Human-Centered Transformation
From Pledges to Action: Are We Ready for Green, Resilient Cities?
Beyond Algorithms: AI as a Catalyst for Urban Transformation
Crisis-Proof Mobility: How Can We Build Resilient Transport Systems?
Next-Gen Buildings: Can Infrastructures Learn and Adapt to our Needs?
Mag: Stories about the new urban realities
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GovTech for Responsible Tourism: Building Sustainable Destinations
Can Smart Grids Keep Up With the Boom in Electric Vehicles and Artificial Intelligence?
Reflective Pavement: How Phoenix Is Combating Extreme Urban Heat
The future of cities lies in data
The Data Centre Dilemma: Can Cities Afford the AI Boom?
The jobs building tomorrow’s cities: urban roles that barely existed ten years ago
The New Urban Cybersecurity Front: Why Water Systems Are a Target
The Rise of Intermediate Cities in the Talent Race
Innovation is the currency of cities
Toronto’s AI Planning Revolution: Can AI Make City Permits Faster?
The Invisible Technology Making Cities Smarter and Safer
Micromobility Meets High-Speed Rail: Designing Integrated Transportation Hubs
Cities are not ready (yet) for self-driving cars: these are the key aspects holding them back
The challenge of redesigning cities to adapt to an ageing population
Sponge Parks and Digital Twins: Proactive Modeling of Climate Extremes
Sovereign Data Spaces: Why Trust Is the New Currency
Circle House: Denmark’s first circular social housing project
When Agentic AI Meets the Citiverse: How the Cities of the Future Are Being Planned
How the Netherlands Cracked Urban Data Sharing — and Why Europe Should Use It
Zurich has been named the world’s smartest city for the seventh year running. How did it do it?
Terra50: The most pioneering solutions helping cities tackle climate challenges
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Madrid CITYlogin: what if urban logistics stopped being a traffic problem and became a mobility solution?
Ocean Ecostructures: what if ports could help regenerate marine life?
City Resilience Framework: what if resilience is not about going back, but moving forward?
Over Easy Solar: what if a rooftop could be both green and solar?
City Forest Credits: How much is a tree worth to a city?
Latitudo40: when earth observation helps cities make better decisions
Kamikatsu: Why zero waste is about more than recycling
Barcelona: when the infrastructure to beat the heat already exists
Concular: when buildings stop being waste and become material banks
Observatory: Internet’s finest content about cities – carefully curated by us
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Mastering mobility with non-exhaust emissions
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Mastering mobility with child-friendly mobility planning
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Mastering mobility: The untapped potential of urban waterways
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Mastering mobility with inclusiveness by design
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Mastering mobility: public space and public health
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Mastering mobility with the 15-minute city
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Mastering mobility: autonomous vehicles and EU-alignment
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Mastering mobility: costs and benefits of the sustainable transition
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Mastering mobility: LEV batteries
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Mastering mobility: public transport microincentives
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Mastering mobility: understanding the health benefits of active mobility
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Mastering mobility: noise pollution
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Mastering mobility: demand responsive transport
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Mastering mobility: low emissions zones
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Mastering mobility: mobility data spaces
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$681.80M Projected For Construction Robots Market By 2028
Infrastructure & Building
Vienna’s Urban Wildlife
Energy & Environment
UK prime minister’s 15-minute city ban “baffling” says concept creator
Living & Inclusion
Which countries do well on recognising Indigenous rights?
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The Mayor Who Prioritized Pedestrians Before It Was Cool
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U.S Mayoral Roundtables: How city leaders are driving urban transformation across american cities
ElevateGov AI spotlight session with Mayor Justin Bibb of Cleveland
U.S. MAYOR SPOTLIGHT SERIES | Housing Leadership
U.S. Mayoral Roundtable Special Segment Featuring Senator Dick Durbin
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #13 | Miami Forward: Mayor Eileen Higgins on Innovation, Leadership, and the Future of a Global City
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #12 | The U.S. Roundtable | Reimagining Our Future City with AI
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #11 | U.S. Roundtable: Global Mayoral Spotlight – A Transatlantic Exchange on Urban Leadership
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #10 | Reimagining the future city: how innovation, technology, and partnerships are driving urban transformation
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #9 | Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Reimagining Housing Transformation
U.S. MAYORAL ROUNDTABLE #8 | LEVERAGING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND AI
U.S. Mayoral Roundtable #6 | Public-Private Partnerships
U.S. Mayoral Roundtable #5 | The Blueprint for Future Cities
US Mayoral Roundtable #4 | Building Our Future Cities Together
U.S. Mayoral Roundtable #3 | Rebuilding our future Chicago
U.S. Mayoral Roundtable #2 | Connecting Every Family
US Mayoral Roundtable #1 | Building our future city