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Smart cities in focus

24 April 2013

  • Trail Smart Cities Gallery 1: Smart Cities trail

    Cities get smart: urban innovation - in pictures

    Forget flying cars and robots, the cities of the near future will be getting 'smart' using a combination of high- and low-tech solutions. Here are 10 of the best prospective and recent urban innovations
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17 April 2013

  • Smart cities: the sponsors' view - video

    How to make smart cities happen: views from Bird & Bird, Cisco and Barclays - video

    Event sponsors Cisco, Barclays and Bird & Bird present their thoughts on future development, stressing the need for collaboration, information-sharing and the importance of "scale at speed" in terms of rolling out experiences
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  • SC: Vincente Guallart on the Barcelona experience

    Barcelona: changing the model of the city - video

    Barcelona's director of urbanism, Vincente Guallart discusses the mix of tradition and innovation in his city, and the importance of partnership working to manage services effectively in an information economy
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  • SC: a focus on city dwellers is crucial

    Building a sustainable Glasgow from bottom up - video

    A vision of collaboration from the Sustainable Glasgow Programme Manager, Michael Burns emphasising the need to design a smart city from the bottom up and around the key themes that concern and reflect the people within that city
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11 April 2013

  • SC: Scottish exhibition conference center viewed over

    Now is the time for cities to get smart

    Smart cities can often seem a futuristic concept, but at the Delivering Smart Cities event, delegates were focused on what is being done now to make our cities smarter
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20 March 2013

  • Boston smart city

    Smart cities: how to build sustainable urban environments?

    Meeting tomorrow's urban challenges will need big shifts, but how can we get smarter, and what are the main concerns? A live discussion with a panel of experts sought to find the answers
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6 March 2013

  • Glasgow

    Getting smart with cities to build a sustainable future

  • Australia skyline

    Making smart cities a reality - live discussion

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