Blog
27 January 2022
Marco Amati Biological metaphors for the city abound in daily use. You may live close to an “arterial” road or in the “heart” of a metropolis. You may work in one of the city’s “nerve centres” or exercise in a park described as the city’s “lungs”. The ready use of such metaphors indicates an underlying […]
Blog
17 November 2020
As smart city technology continues to develop at exponential rates, cities are looking at how to best integrate the new technologies into their communities.
Conference Papers
Public-Private Partnerships in Municipal Wi-Fi: Optimising Public Value
Association for Computing Machinery
Blog
27 June 2016
Are humans now an “urban species”? Do we now live in an “Urban Age”?
Blog
24 May 2016
The federal government’s Smart Cities Plan is framed around the “30-minute city”. In this city, journeys will take no more than half an hour, regardless of your location.
Blog
16 March 2016
Significant urban policy and planning efforts have been directed at the problem of rising heat in cities.