These Five Ideas for Smarter Cities Just Won Millions in Funding
Projects ranging from a 'trust network' for elderly citizens in Barcelona, to a green-waste scheme in Stockholm.
Projects ranging from a 'trust network' for elderly citizens in Barcelona, to a green-waste scheme in Stockholm.
Photographer Dave Glass took these intriguing images of houses being driven across San Francisco almost 30 years ago.
Send Robocop down to New Cross Gate again.
It's a green "super city" that's designed to cement Shenzhen's place in the world economy.
Amazon's using the heat from its data centres to warm its new HQ.
Williamsburg has become so popular so quickly that some fear that local infrastructure will buckle under the exploding population.
Tourists directed to roundabout in Trafalgar Square, even though you can see the carbuncle from most of the city.
There's a lot going on beneath our feet that we never get to see. This exhibit exposes 14 different underground structures from the world beneath our feet.
Driver's may sometimes denigrate cyclists and their need for special lanes, but, according to one study, bike lanes may actually be making life better for drivers.
Some of them don't even have Wi-Fi.
The toilet is a remarkable piece of kit, but do you know exactly how it works?
Have you ever wondered how they do sewer maintenance in the 21st century? It's less reliant on people going poop-diving, and more focussed on things like robots
More tarmac heading Heathrow's way, it seems.
Have you ever wondered what happened after you threw your empty drink into the big blue bin?
Here's a dirty secret about systems like the Boris bike: Bikes don't end up distributed evenly across the system, so most cities use trucks to shuffle the bikes around to where they're needed most at different times of day.
And in Season 2 we might get to see what's inside.
