Arup and C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group have published a guidebook for city authorities, developers and communities to help deliver net-zero at neighbourhood level.
A new guidebook sets out to underscore the importance of neighbourhood action in tackling the climate crisis and offers a framework and approach for delivering net zero.
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You’ve committed to improve citizen experience, now what? A natural starting point is to assess the state of your existing digital landscape. Begin by asking these questions.
- Are you presenting a cohesive, customer-focused website?
- Is it easy for users to find the information they need?
- Are there opportunities to move paper processes to digital ones?
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Howard County hopes to use tools like self-driving vehicles to make it easier to live without a car through a partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
The partnership is intended to transform the 900-acre Columbia Gateway Innovation District business park into a mixed-used smart city, with enhanced transit, more efficient energy usage and strong cybersecurity.
Unique circumstances in Oakland drove a citizen-led approach to implement smart city surveillance technology.
This article is the fifth in a series that follows the City of Oakland’s journey to balance privacy and security in the aftermath of a public safety crisis – from the formation of the first citizen-led privacy commission in the nation that was created in response to planned expansion of surveillance throughout the city, to a bottoms-up, citizen-led initiative from one district to deploy smart surveillance technology throughout all districts of the city. Read the first installment here, the second installment here, the third installment here, and the fourth installment here.
Four months after he faced a grilling at the New Orleans City Council, a central figure in the controversial “smart city” broadband plan has left Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration.
Jonathan Rhodes, the former director of the Mayor’s Office of Utilities, had his last day at City Hall on Friday, according to an automatic response from his email address.
The city, which did not respond to a request for comment, told The Lens that he had resigned.