Technology is evolving at what sometimes feels like an accelerating pace. The entire NASA organization in 1969 did not have as much processing power as an iPhone 7 does today. We’ve gone from the (at the time) cutting-edge 1G world of “brick phones” in 1981 to […]
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Smart cities have become a contemporary point of discussion across outlets ranging from the (digital) pages of the Wall Street Journal to panel discussions at technology and infrastructure conferences. The smart city will ultimately be facilitated by the “internet of things,” which can be thought of […]
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch. There’s also no such thing as free parking – a concept made famous in the urban planning world by UCLA scholar Donald Shoup, author of “The High Cost of Free Parking.” Commercial real estate developers are likely familiar […]
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Real estate meets technology giant as Alphabet Inc., parent of Google, takes on development not for the web, but for “smart” cities. The Wall Street Journal reports that Sidewalk Labs, the company’s division that works with cities to build products addressing big urban problems, “is putting […]
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