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Against the Smart Worldview

Smartness already defines our cities, just not in the way Sidewalk Labs and others would have you think

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Some Kind of "Company Town"...

Will corporation-owned smart cities come to Nevada?

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I Walk THE LINE

Saudi Arabia reveals a hundred-mile-long linear city, but critics are skeptical

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Akontroversy in Paradise

Akon moves ahead with crypto city in Senegal despite skepticism

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Quayside on the Wayside

Sidewalk Labs pulls the plug on its Toronto waterfront smart city

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The Title is a Mad-Lib

Akon finalizes deal to build a cryptocurrency city in Senegal

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They're BIG in Japan

BIG’s first project in Japan is a high-tech mobility incubator for Toyota

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Time is a Flat Squircle

Canada gives utopia a chance with The Orbit

Future Smart Cities 2019

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LeGrand Scheme

Is Bleutech’s Las Vegas smart city on the level?

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Digital, Digital, Get Down

Las Vegas Valley may get its own $7.5 billion smart city

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Logging On

Sidewalk Labs unveils full Toronto waterfront master plan that’s a timber-topia

Proposed surveillance system outside of Vulcan HQ
Eye of Sauron

Trial run of high-powered security scanners proposed for Seattle plaza

City of the Future

CityIQ plans to install thousands of sensors to monitor San Diego

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Cloud-based Urbanism

Cryptocurrency mogul taps California architects for tech-powered desert utopia

Sidewalk Labs' vision for a Quayside laneway in their Toronto development
Data Alert

Privacy expert quits Sidewalk Labs’ smart city project in Toronto

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No No Neom

Norman Foster and other leaders suspend participation in Saudi Arabian megacity

Drawing of Sidewalk Labs' Toronto development
Canadian Club Culture

Sidewalk Labs releases its vision for Toronto’s waterfront

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