Smart Cities

Issue 517 • October 2012

Smart Cities

Is information making our cities smarter?
  • Article
    The emerging movement of collaborative consumption is redefining the ways goods and services are exchanged, valued and created.
  • Article
    Can we provide public goods more efficiently by pricing them to reflect real-time demand?
  • Article
    A new emphasis is being placed on the availability of open data from governments but what use does this data have for citizens’ daily experience?
  • Article
    A photographer observes that after the graffiti’s gone, new works of art emerge.