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Energy costs for low-income renters and affordable housing owners are disproportionately high. While there are programs to help them, they often can't help enough to make a difference — or help all of the people who need assistance. As cities work...
Article - 01/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Earlier this year, we named the first five recipients of our Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants, a program we developed to help cities take that next step toward taking full advantage of smart technologies. This week, I had the pleasure...
Article - 04/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
What may be the best path forward for one city's smart city project may not work for another. Each city's needs and what citizens expect differ from city to city. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, we can learn quite a lot from what other...
Article - 08/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It was easy for Illinois to end up in its current situation. Ending up with one of the worst technology platforms of any state didn’t require any effort at all.But even if you’re 40 years behind the times, you shouldn’t give up. Illinois has decided...
Article - 05/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Miskolc, Hungary, is a mid-size industrial city that has taken on a number of civic improvement projects, among them planning a public square as a focal point for the city and an expanded mass transit system.Deputy Mayor Péter Pfliegler and other...
Article - 04/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
St. Albert is an attractive community of about 61,500 residents adjacent to Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta. Well known as "The Botanical Arts City," a reflection of the things its citizens enjoy, St. Albert city leaders also want...
Article - 04/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
When the Smart Cities practice for Council Associate Partner IDC began tracking and forecasting what its researchers believed would be the biggest influences on the direction and depth of global smart city progress, the number one prediction on its...
Article - 01/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
The infographic below is from our friends at Smart & Resilient Cities. It encapsulates a recent survey of urban leaders. As such, it offers a way to compare your own efforts to the averages. For instance, did you realize that 87% of all cities...
Article - 12/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
By Barbara ThorntonDoes more citizen engagement really lead to higher tax revenue for a city? The answer: it depends.In cities with a clear process that allows citizens to participate in shaping the budget allocations, local tax revenue collection...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
It takes a fair amount of courage to be the first to do something, but cities and other government agencies that adopted a more pioneering attitude have made tremendous progress in reducing environmental impact and driving economic growth.Four such...
Article - 09/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership