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Positive Contamination of Smart Parking

Author: Michael Lake Rio de Janeiro a city with almost 12M inhabitants shares a problem familiar to most cities—a lack of adequate parking spaces and the means to properly manage them. Parking is an essential need for city drivers and those businesses wanting such individuals to get to work, shop or do business, but lack…Read more Positive Contamination of Smart Parking

Smart Bus Rapid Transit – Rio de Janeiro

Smart Bus Rapid Transit - Rio de Janeiro | Smart & Resilient Cities //html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js S&RC Contributor Renato De Castro reports on Smart Bus Rapid Transit - Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro is ranked as the 5th Latin-American Smart City and it took the first place in the latest national rankings. Public Transportation is a…Read more Smart Bus Rapid Transit – Rio de Janeiro

Showcase Your Smart Cities Solution at the World’s Largest Smart City Event

~Join the Leading Cities Pavilion Today~ The Smart Cities Expo and World Congress is the largest Smart Cities event in the world. Hosted each November in Barcelona, this gathering of almost 600 cities, 400+ businesses and 15,000 attendees is the premier opportunity to showcase your Smart City solution. Leading Cities is offering an affordable, premium location…Read more Showcase Your Smart Cities Solution at the World’s Largest Smart City Event

The absent civilization

Technology, understood as all of our material culture, has played a key role in our development since the origins of our species. And if at the beginning has configured itself as a critical element to ensure our survival in the mists of time, through the control of fire and the development of simple tools such…Read more The absent civilization

Urban innovation and social challenges

The next December 10th, Leading Cities is going to take part in the Conference “Urban Innovation and Social Challenges”, held by the CORE group on Smart Cities, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the IGOP (Institut of Public Policies and Governance). Our Coordinator in Spain, Dr. Joaquín Rodríguez is going to present our network…Read more Urban innovation and social challenges

Third day chronicle of the Smart City Expo and World Congress 2015

The final day arrived, our heads are spinning full of new ideas, and projects to share throughout the Leading Cities Network. Over the course of these three days at the Smart Cities Expo & World Congress we have learned about new technologies, private and public initiatives that could be the next revolution of the urban…Read more Third day chronicle of the Smart City Expo and World Congress 2015

Second day chronicle of the Smart City Expo and World Congress 2015

For the Leading Cities delegation, the second day of the #SCEWC15 has been a very productive day defined by the organization of different meeting ranging from Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, and his vice-president and chief of international cooperation Alfred Bosch and his team, to the Director of International Relations in the Mayor of Barcelona’s office.…Read more Second day chronicle of the Smart City Expo and World Congress 2015