The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.

• cities
• Climate action

Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.

• The People
• Research and policy centers
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Startups and social entreprises that are transforming cities around the world through technology.

• cities

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.

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• Podcasts

Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.

• The People
• Research and policy centers
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Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• Courses

The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics was formed in 2010 as one of the first municipal innovation offices in the world. Our research and design projects tackle a range of topics — from civic engagement to city infrastructure to education. Our team comes from a diverse array of backgrounds and our work comes in many different flavors.

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• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

It deals with central issues such as location factors and potential of urban production, future-oriented ideas for logistics in urban areas and the opportunities of additive manufacturing in urban areas.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Urbanist serves to examine and influence urban policies by promoting and disseminating ideas, creating community, and improving the places we live.

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• News and blogs

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

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• Playbooks and design principles

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers. The brand was established in 2011 by the City’s Economic Development Unit. The Durban EDGE produces publications; economic info releases, as well as on-demand seminars; an annual release on the State of the Durban Economy; and topical research papers. Each release includes reliable data on the global, domestic, and local economy; designed to assist researchers, investors, business leaders, politicians and other key stakeholders.

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

An urban tree counter

• Sustainable cities and communities
• trees

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

A podcast highlighting the new normal of urbanism in our globalized cities, as told by Kristen Jeffers and Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman - two female urbanists. . 38 Tracks. 277 Followers. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Third Wave Urbanism on your desktop or mobile device.

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“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Philadelphia’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) pilots experiments that offer the potential to improve radically the quality of City services. To design, conduct and evaluate pilot projects in these areas, MONUM builds partnerships between constituents, academics, entrepreneurs, non-profits and City staff.

• cities

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

Durban Answers is a city website where Durban citizens can information and services with a simple search. On the website you can find information about licencing issues, health information, public transport, universities, schools, libraries, metro fines etc.

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New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine vision
• Urban planning

Mapeo de rutas para futuras ciudades sostenibles

• mobility

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic hackathons

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic data APIs

BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs
• Hubs

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

• place-based

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts
• Urban planning

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• cities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

• cities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• cities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital transformation

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

• local

• Community wifi

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• cities
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Manifestos
• Design
• Urban planning

A transportation operating system for orchestrating, governing, and powering modern mobility.

• streetscape
• mobility

• Govtech
• Urban planning

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Satellites
• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

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• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia