Blind data: solving smart buildings’ UX problem
Smart buildings are useless if people can’t interpret the reams of complex information they generate. We need to completely rethink the interface between human and machine, says James Kinch
How smarter mobility can make cities more equitable
Three ways of using transport data to tackle social exclusion
Five thoughts on future-ready streetscapes
City leaders need to think beyond the parking space and activate streets for new, sustainable ways of living and moving around.
Digital resilience by design
Smart buildings present new, unprecedented risks to their developers, owners and tenants. Managing these must become part of the design process
After COVID-19: How Can Smart Tech Make Healthcare More Resilient?
Data is the most powerful weapon we have against future crises
Smart Security In The Post-Pandemic Office
How we can optimize the environment to give employees the normalcy they are seeking, while implementing new policies and procedures?
How Can Smart Transform The Office Experience Post-Covid?
The fusion of building tech, smartphones and wearables could make the post-pandemic workplace not just possible, but much, much better
Can Smart Save the Post-Covid Office?
Digital technologies can enable healthier, safer, more efficient buildings – and leverage assets that owners may not realize they have
The future of healthcare
COVID-19 has left healthcare systems around the world reeling — and pandemics are just one of the heightened threats humanity faces over the coming decades. How will we cope?
Future of healthcare: how can smart hospitals support healing?
Digital technologies don’t just make hospitals more efficient
Shove, actually: nudge theory in the built environment
The design of spaces has always “nudged” people’s behaviour. But with digital technology, our tools are becoming more precise and potentially far more powerful. So how far should we push?
Micromobility: small wheels, big future
Micromobility will profoundly change urban landscapes – let’s make sure it’s for the better
Walking in someone else’s shoes: inclusive design in smart cities
Inclusive design specialist Ross Atkin discusses why placemaking often fails disabled citizens, the dangers of decluttering, and how to build a people-friendly smart city
Key to the kingdom: who owns smart city data?
In the digitally driven future, buildings and cities will only be as open as the data that supports them. Ownership of, and access to, that data will be one of the defining issues of the information age
The Possible issue 05: what kind of places are we creating?
The latest issue of the magazine approaches the question from many, sometimes unexpected, angles
Blank Canvas: Can we plan a refurbishment without a site visit?
How do we find out what state a building is in without disrupting the existing tenants?
Beating the competition: your sofa
The smart venues of the future will make going out almost as effortless as staying home …
Interview: Itai Palti on the Conscious Cities movement
Itai Palti’s Conscious Cities movement is rethinking the urban landscape using neuroscience, AI and human-centred design. Is this the future of architecture?
You are now disconnected: smartphones and the city
Smartphones suck our mental energy and leave us disoriented and alienated. How can urban designers use their immense power for good?
The smartest place I know: “It’s a crazy, impossible tapestry”
Transportation guru Hiro Aso builds his own smart city, Frankenstein-style
Smart unplugged
Don’t get hung up on the gadgetry, writes Matthew Marson. Smart is about the ends, not the means
The Possible issue 04: what can’t we afford to lose?
This issue seeks the optimum balance between technology and the human element
Cities by numbers: How to make urban metrics count
Historian Poornima Paidipaty explains how new data streams give a more nuanced picture of how cities work, and why they fail
The Smartest Place I Know: Fawley Waterside
Siemens’ Julie Alexander picks a regeneration project on England’s south coast that could become the UK’s most connected city
Blank Canvas: Can technology tackle a hotel resort’s laundry pile?
Three engineers, armed with drones, robot bins and pneumatic tubes, take on hospitality’s eternal towel problem
Facial recognition and intelligent vacuum cleaners: Welcome to the automated airport
Robots are taking their first steps to welcoming passengers, handling baggage, driving shuttles and carrying out airfield inspections
Defensive realms: protecting cities from terrorism
How can we secure our cities from the threat of terrorism without destroying what makes them liveable?
Connected cities: Is smarter safer?
Intelligent systems make cities vulnerable to new threats
The Possible issue 03: human after all
This issue looks at nurturing human creativity in an increasingly automated world
Power Politics: A global game on an urban stage
Cities are the new battleground of the global economy and infrastructure will be their secret weapon, writes Tom Cargill
Cyber blindness: a security alert
The smarter our lives, homes and cities become, the greater the risk that they could be taken over by hackers and used against us, says Peter Richards
Interview: Johan Edstav on Sweden’s New Cities
Johan Edstav is a Green politician in one of the world’s most sustainable countries. So why does he want to build a city on this field?