Smart Cities
Tell Us What You Want the Future of Your City to Look Like
Motherboard is partnering with Smart Cities NYC 17 to cover the people shaping our urban environments of today and tomorrow.
Chicago Says It Will Make All City Buildings 100 Percent Renewable By 2025
The Windy City wants to switch its municipal buildings entirely to clean energy in eight years.
Artists Enlist the Public in Building Future Utopias in Two Forgotten Cities
Blast Theory collective is working with cities Hull and Aarhus to transform them as more sustainable and economical.
Is New York City’s Public Wi-Fi Actually Connecting the Poor?
I spent hours visiting LinkNYC internet kiosks to find out if they were helping bridge the digital divide.
Artists Are Mapping a City Through the Data It Generates
An installation at Milton Keynes harnesses data to visualise the smart city of the future.
The City That Has Its Own Operating System
In the first episode of the UK Motherboard Show, we visit Bristol’s smart city project and talk hyperconnected futures.
The Smart Map Using Open Data to Prevent Fire Tragedies
New York based startup Enigma has expanded its project across the United States.
Will 5G Kill Free WiFi?
Intel's techno-utopian vision of a single unified meta-internet has a dark side.
Whose Smart City? Tomorrow's Cities Need to Be Shaped by Residents
Bringing some people power back into urban planning.
All the Ways To Hack a Smart City
As cities embrace software and become smart, they also get more hackable.
The Plan to Surveil the Sounds of Cities
Surveillance cameras are a near-ubiquitous feature in our cities, and those eyes will soon be matched with ears.
Madrid's New Parking Meters Are Too 'Smart' For Anyone's Good
Parking in the Spanish capital just got less efficient and much more complicated. The sad irony is that it was botched with the best intentions.