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City apps

May 2017

  • The Fietsflo traffic signals for cyclists

    Transport
    The cow that tells cyclists to slow down: new technologies for congested cities

    As urban populations swell, technology firms are working on projects to make road, cycle and foot traffic flow better

March 2015

  • Business secretary Vince Cable at the launch of the Urban Innovation Centre.

    Cities of the future
    Why our new Urban Innovation Centre is a step towards building better cities

    Dan Hill
    Do cities really need ‘creative spaces’ to come up with big ideas? Future Cities Catapult’s Dan Hill says it’s crucial to make room to collaborate in unusual ways

February 2015

  • London tourist heat map

    Tourists v locals: city heat maps show where sightseers flock

    Eric Fischer’s fully browsable worldwide map shows blue points for ‘locals’ – tweets by people who have tweeted in the city over a month or more – and red points for ‘tourists’, those who tweeted there less than a month

January 2015

  • The Jackson Heights neighborhood in Queens, New York.

    Tech and the city
    Cracks in the digital map: what the 'geoweb' gets wrong about real streets

    Road maps, restaurant guides, the Yellow Pages ... the ‘geoweb’ has supplanted them all. But whether you use Google Maps or Yelp to find what you need, a closer look reveals that our digital urban mirror is full of chinks and distortions

October 2014

  • Elderly people crossing the street in Barcelona

    Resilient cities
    Could new technology help older people in Barcelona create stronger networks?

  • Placemeter

    Tech and the city
    Should we be concerned about Placemeter – an app which monitors street views from apartment windows?

September 2014

  • cityscape of Porto Alegre

    City links
    Brazilians are writing their own bus stop signs – and it's working

    City links: From a community initiative to sticker bus stops in Porto Alegre to an app that aims to prevent bike crashes, we round up the week’s best city stories

August 2014

  • SketchFactor

    SketchFactor city app sparks accusations of racism

    It’s the crowdsourcing app that encourages users to report dangerous areas, but is SketchFactor sketchy by nature as well as by name?

July 2014

  • Helsinki, Finland.

    Cities in motion
    Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years

    Finland's capital hopes an ambitious 'mobility on demand' system that integrates all forms of transport in a single payment network could essentially render private cars obsolete

June 2014

  • Peerby

    Best city apps
    AppMyCity winner Peerby brings small-town sharing to big city life

    Amsterdam-based Peerby enables users to share items – a hammer, a tent, a badminton racket – in the way neighbours did before cities made us more anonymous

  • Grand Theft Auto V

    From Watch Dogs to GTA V, why 'video games are going to reshape our cities'

    The virtual cityscapes of Assassin’s Creed or Grand Theft Auto are astonishingly lifelike – and now they are changing how we plan real cities
  • The cast of Dallas

    City brands
    Can Dallas, Texas ride the New Cities Summit towards a new self-image?

    The legendary oil city is hoping its impending urbanism conference sheds light on the cultural and technological shifts going on there

May 2014

  • Tents of homeless people in Los Angeles

    City links
    Can hacking end homelessness?

    City links: this week's best city stories look at urban inequality – from homelessness in LA to elite clubbing in Shanghai – as well as roads, roofs and a sugar factory
  • Super Happy Block Party hacking day, Augusta, Georgia.

    White House and Nasa gear up for National Day of Civic Hacking

    This year the open-source, big data extravaganza goes global in its efforts to empower citizens to improve their communities

    • Cycling the city
      The best city app competition finals: who should win?

    • Shortcuts
      Why taxi drivers are going to war with Uber

    • Best city apps
      AppMyCity! shortlist is good news for Adelaide foodies and Sao Paulo skaters

April 2014

  • Swirl.ly app

    Best city apps
    Crime to clubs, tourism to toilets as best city app contest enters next stage

    Entries to 2014 AppMyCity! competition range from parking to public transport, crime to civic empowerment
  • Gary Jackson, left, and Ron Zeghibe, co-founders of Hailo, in a London taxi cab.

    The innovators
    Hailo app proves a virtuous circle for London's black-taxi drivers

    A low-key meeting of a few cabbies and entrepreneurs in 2010 gave rise to an app that has now spread to Toronto and Tokyo

  • Best city apps
    39 Steps meets North by Northwest: how to script a city adventure app

    This year’s AppMyCity! judging panel includes novelist Naomi Alderman, who helped create urban adventure app The Walk
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