CZECH EU PRESIDENCY
- Czech EU Presidency puts focus on regions and cities’ challenges and responses to crisis
WORLD URBAN FORUM
- Envisaging the Future of Cities
ACCESS CITY AWARD
- Access City Award 2023 – Apply now
COR
- Vasco Alves Cordeiro elected as new President of the European Committee of the Regions
- The EU must provide local and regional authorities with technical and financial means to decarbonise the building stock by 2050
- The EU’s ecological transition must be grounded on a strong social acceptability and leave no citizen, territory nor business behind
- Green Deal Going Local: cities and regions put forward economic and social measures to support citizens and businesses to overcome the energy crisis
- June Plenary: Election of new President and launch of an alliance for Ukraine
UN HABITAT REPORT
- UNEP: Flight from cities due to COVID-19 short-lived, says flagship UN-Habitat report
URBACT
- Are participatory processes a fantasy? Not for URBACT!
SMART MOBILITY
- Speech by EVP Timmermans at The Cycling Summit 2022
- Smart Mobility: Latest publications by Eltis
- MobiliseYourCity Partnership: Global Monitor report for 2022
- Mind the queer public transport gap
- Subsidised taxi vouchers are available in Milan again
- MobiliseYourCity report – “Access for All: Babies, Toddlers, and Their Caregivers”
- LogiSmile: autonomous delivery vehicle Ona showcased in Barcelona
- 8 key messages on how to shape net-zero cities with active and public transport
- Latest European Shared Mobility Index published
- Madrid transforms area of northern rail station to an urban forest
- Findings published on urban accessibility for those with disabilities
- Is there life after death for Europe’s lithium-ion batteries?
- High Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on Global Road Safety
- Sofia is launching an extensive sidewalk renewal programme
- Vilnius app tells commuters the story of their city during their trip
- Lithuania wins road safety prize after deaths fall more than 50% in a decade
- 16 year-olds will be able to drive electric cars in Spain
SMART ENERGY
- GeoLaB: Zukunft mit Geothermie – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
SMART ENVIRONMENT
- EU Commission: Answer to a written question – The Commission’s implementation of the European Year of Greener Cities – E-001434/2022(ASW)
- UN-Habitat Launches its World Cities Report 2022
GERMANY
- Über 100 Teilnehmende bei der Blockchain Convention 2022 – Fraunhofer FIT
ASIA
- Information Session: ASEAN Secretariat for Science and Technology, and Updates from the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN)
USA
- American City and County: Developing and Allocating Local Budgets Survey
- Connected Cities: Getting to Smart – Smart Cities Council
- Latest headlines by Next City
- The Twin Cities Group Reclaiming Lacrosse’s Native Roots
- Apartheid by Another Name: How Zoning Regulations Perpetuate Segregation
- Moving Through the City Can Be Dangerous for Indian Women. Can These Apps Help?
- The Duluth Preschool That’s Taking Education Outside
- Housing in Brief: Philadelphia Has 22,000 Illegal Evictions a Year
- Can Toronto Finally Win Its War on Noise Pollution?
- D.C.′s Solar for All Program Just Installed Its First Solar Shingles
- The Violence Interrupters Need Help
- A New Trail Will Reconnect Philadelphia Families to Their Local Watershed
- Report: Minority-Owned Firms Are Missing Out On Billions in Federal Dollars
- Minneapolis Tenants Are Taking On Corporate Landlords By Putting Their Rent in Escrow
- Detroit Nonprofit Is Turning Redlined Streets Green
- In One Oregon City, the Disability Community Is Ensuring They Aren’t Left Out of Disaster Planning
GLOBAL MARKETS
- Open & Agile Smart Cities: OASC is recruiting project coordinators
- Global Smart Cities headlines
- Solidus Ai Tech for managing traffic congestion and enhancing smart cities
- The Download: Introducing our TR35 list, and the death of the smart city
- Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
- Ooredoo’s Development of TASMU Platform Shows its Commitment to Smart City, says CEO
- 4 ways communities can implement smart streetlights, traffic sensors, and other technology, according to leaders in cities with successful smart city projects
- We need smarter cities, not “smart cities”
- The Download: Yann LeCun’s AI vision, and smart cities’ unfulfilled promises
- The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia
- Fridays with Attar: Staying on the Edge of Mystery in Smart Cities
- WBA Wi-Fi OpenRoaming trial helps advance Dublin’s smart city goals
- Russia: “Smart” city-farm created in the Tyumen region
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