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    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Special Report
      Thriving Cities

      This new series will track and highlight the most important initiatives and the policy issues that must be addressed to enable future generations to live healthier and more prosperous urban lives

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      City of London
      Turn your lights down low, City of London tells skyscrapers

      Proposal to hit the off switch in Square Mile’s empty offices aims to cut visual pollution and save energy

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Crowdsourcing app aims to make cities safer for young people

      First rolled out in India, Safetipin is mapping safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Why youth must have a say in how cities grow

      The FT’s Thriving Cities series asks how we can innovate to make urban living healthier

    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      Inger Andersen
      The world’s cities must take on the cacophony of noise pollution

      Uncontrolled din can have a serious impact on the health of urban dwellers

    • Monday, 7 February, 2022
      Special Report
      5G and Connectivity

      Fifth-generation networks offer higher data speeds and cut delays — to give almost instantaneous response, promising new opportunities and applications for business and consumers. So why has 5G been slow to make an impression on everyday life, and what can we expect next?

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Susan Etlinger
      Three ways to ensure health tech innovation benefits all

      ‘We need approaches that are inclusive by default’

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      The future of getting there
      Why the future of the city is congestion-free

      From parking lots to parklets, the ideas that can reshape our urban spaces

    • Monday, 28 June, 2021
      Special ReportPost-pandemic Cities
      Why the pandemic is a time to reimagine cities

      Forum: a greener ‘15-minute’, feminist city — can utopian urban dreams be made real?

    • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
      The Big Read
      Exporting Chinese surveillance: the security risks of ‘smart cities’

      Critics say the technology can be a tool for ‘digital authoritarianism’ and leaves countries vulnerable to cyber attack

    • Tuesday, 18 May, 2021
      Special Report
      The Cloud

      The cloud has become an integral part of IT systems worldwide, allowing the on-demand access of computer system resources, data storage and additional computing power. What opportunities and challenges can migration to the cloud present? This is the final part of the series.

    • Thursday, 6 May, 2021
      News in-depthCyber Security
      UK spies warn local authorities over ‘smart city’ tech risks

      Contracts could expose councils to cyber attacks or compromise individuals’ privacy

    • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      UK spy agencies push for curbs on Chinese ‘smart cities’ technology

      Intelligence chiefs fear Beijing could use it for espionage or the collection of sensitive data

    • Friday, 12 March, 2021
      A complete guide to the healthy home
      The path to the post-Covid city

      A year of the pandemic has laid bare the flaws of our great metropolises. Here’s how to make them healthier, cheaper and happier

    • Monday, 23 November, 2020
      Special Report
      The Future of Cities

      Africa’s coming urbanisation explosion; radical redevelopment in Tokyo; bringing a tech city back to real life; ‘loose fit’ architecture; transport after Covid; urban sustainability; what is a healthy city?; refreshing a New York icon

    • Monday, 23 November, 2020
      Urban planning
      How to make cities more liveable after Covid-19

      Different and imaginative uses of space will be crucial to the recovery of urban centres

    • Monday, 23 November, 2020
      Internet of things
      Internet of Things help cities clean up their act

      Real-time monitoring is transforming our ability to nip disease outbreaks in the bud

    • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
      Anna Konig Jerlmyr
      ‘Flatten the curve’ of traffic to make cities liveable

      By deploying the strategy used to fight coronavirus, rush hour could be a thing of the past

    • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
      Robin Harding
      Cities are too resilient to be killed by Covid

      The imagined idyll of rural teleworking is merely an economic chimera

    • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      The post-Covid future of cities is in our hands Premium content

      Whether pandemic changes geographic advantages depends on policy choices

    • Monday, 13 July, 2020
      Special ReportE-mobility
      How e-mobility can find a home in the country

      While electric vehicles and e-scooters are proliferating in cities, challenges remain in rural areas

    • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
      Ben Rogers
      Cities are not dead — they will get younger

      Covid-19 will create opportunities for those who have been shut out of urban areas

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      Camilla Cavendish
      The pandemic is killing the attraction of megacities

      You cannot be in the urban swing of things if there is no swing

    • Friday, 8 May, 2020
      Special ReportConsulting in Emerging Markets
      Tech consultants join Gulf’s fight against Covid-19

      Demand for tech services expected partly to counter pandemic downturn

    • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
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      Sidewalk Labs blames coronavirus pandemic for end of three-year project

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