As one of the most trusted spaces and sources of information, libraries are playing an increasingly important role in smart city initiatives.
When the founders of Library Land first decided to join forces, it was to start a PR agency — and they needed to find a good spot to meet. Instead of opting for a Starbucks or a WeWork, the two settled on a quiet study room at a library in Newton, MA.
The duo, Adam Zand and Greg Peverill-Conti, tried their luck with a different library for their next meeting. Over 200 libraries later, the pair has leveraged the public spaces to launch the Library Land Project, a site that hosts reviews, maps and information regarding libraries around the U.S.
Weiterlesen: US: The library is a smart city's 'hub for digital intelligence'
Buffalo is still far from becoming the “smart city” Mayor Byron Brown promised in a February address. But both the city and the wider Western New York region are taking baby steps into the smart-city movement.
Tonawanda recently installed new traffic cameras that can monitor congestion and coordinate signals. The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is pitching a long-awaited Main Street “smart corridor.” And in February, the city of Buffalo is expected to make a series of announcements on upcoming technological and infrastructure investments.
Weiterlesen: US: New York: Buffalo, WNY taking baby steps into the 'smart city' movement
St. Louis visitors and residents can now learn about local attractions and services at Smart City kiosks that went live Wednesday in historic Old North St. Louis and downtown, according to a press release. St. Louis has partnered with the St. Louis Development Corporation and its Downtown St. Louis partners. IKE Smart City plans to install more than 50 kiosks around the city by the end of this year with more planned in 2021. The kiosks are being paid for by advertising and have not been subsidized by taxpayers.
Weiterlesen: US: Missouri: Smart City kiosks go live in St. Louis
The city of Venice, Fla., is now opening its Geographic Information System data hub, which is still in the process of being built, up to the public, making it accessible through links on the city website.
The city of Venice, Fla., is opening is Geographic Information System data hub for public use.
The hub, accessible at data-covfl.opendata.arcgis.com, is still being built out but users can access maps now.
Weiterlesen: US: Florida City Opens Mapping Data Hub for Public Use
For some, surveillance is designed to be a luxury good that makes life more seamless. But for others, it is involuntary, overt, and dangerous.
Four years ago, Brandon Harris recounted this anecdote of driving through his mother’s Cincinnati neighborhood:
While stopped at the intersection, I glimpsed out of my eye a tall negro dressed in a white tank top, his skin high yellow like my own, crossing the street in what seemed like a beeline toward my car. He was coming from a corner where much wasteful bravado and boisterous ennui takes place, and I felt it immediately, that familiar sensation, the need to secure my body against potential predators. I was driving an orange car with plastic orange flowers on the dash, the same car I had been driving when held up at gunpoint not far from that corner two summers before.