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Best city apps

What are the best mobile apps for urban living? Guardian Cities and the New Cities Foundation are on the hunt
  • Peerby

    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

  • Peerby Pr pic

    The best city app competition finals: who should win?

    Peer-to-peer car sharing, borrowing from neighbours and connecting with fellow cyclists: which gets your vote?
  • AppMyCity

    AppMyCity! shortlist is good news for Adelaide foodies and Sao Paulo skaters

    After much agonising, the list of 10 creative concepts still in the running to be named best new mobile city app of 2014 has been revealed. As ever, it's an impressively eclectic, global list
  • Swirl.ly app

    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
  • 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
  • YesWeMum app

    How to hack your city and an app for urban mums in our latest roundup

    An Airbnb for parking spaces, how to find buggy-friendly restaurants, and a crowdsourcing app for city problems form part of our second batch of AppMyCity! submissions
  • Dogalize

    Foursquare for dogs, and other smart ideas in the battle to AppMyCity!

    Choose a bar remotely, find a parking space, then chill out with other dog owners in the 2014 urban app of the year contest
  • 2013's AppMyCity! winner Colab

    What makes a winning city app? Q&A with Colab's co-founder Bruno Aracaty

    Inspired by a local election campaign in Recife, last year's AppMyCity! winner Colab aims to make life better for city dwellers all over Brazil – and far beyond
  • Fire Crews Glasgow

    How Future Hacks technology seeks to make city life better in just 48 hours

    From 4G cameras worn by emergency staff to GPS for 999 calls, Glasgow's high-speed 'hackathon' events are aiming to unearth a new wave of urban tech talent

  • CityMapper screengrab

    Seven urban apps guaranteed to improve the quality of city life

  • VARIOUS

    In search of the world's best new city apps – competition

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