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Smart cities are losing their luster — here's why

GreenBiz

Smart cities” built from scratch have so far failed to live up to their much-hyped promise.

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Luca Curci Architects designs a zero-energy smart city of the future

Inhabitat - Innovation

"The Link" is a net-zero energy smart city for the future.

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Tencent gets proposal from MVRDV for green smart city

Inhabitat - Innovation

After two years of development, MVRDV has unveiled their competition entry for Chinese tech giant Tencent’s next campus—a green and futuristic smart city shaped like a continuous undulating mountain range.

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Smart grids to dominate smart city spending through 2026

Smart Energy International

A new report released by Juniper Research states that investments in smart grids across the globe will dominate smart city developments made between 2020 and 2026. Shanghai, owing to its Citizen Cloud, has managed to centralise consumer shopping, ensuring access to over 1,000 smart city services and products.

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The State Of Greenfield Smart Cities In Africa

Forbes Green Tech

Grand projects like these certainly exist in developed nations, but the developing world hosts its own share of greenfield smart city aspirations.

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Smart City Capital to deploy 200 ADS-TEC Energy DC fast chargers in Florida

Charged

EVSE manufacturer ADS-TEC Energy (NASDAQ: ADSE) has announced that Smart City Capital will be deploying more than 200 ADS-TEC Energy ultra-high-speed ChargeBox charging stations throughout Florida. This $30-million order is ADS-TEC’s second from Smart City, and the single largest order of ChargeBox units to date in the US.

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Towards smart cities: Integrating ground source heat pump systems with energy piles

TechXplore

Human civilization is currently evolving at an unprecedented rate, with new breakthroughs every single day. This has become possible due to never-tapped-before levels of energy resources.