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  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    Special Report
    Thriving Cities

    This new series will track and highlight the most important initiatives and the policy issues that must be addressed to enable future generations to live healthier and more prosperous urban lives

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    City of London
    Turn your lights down low, City of London tells skyscrapers

    Proposal to hit the off switch in Square Mile’s empty offices aims to cut visual pollution and save energy

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Crowdsourcing app aims to make cities safer for young people

    First rolled out in India, Safetipin is mapping safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Why youth must have a say in how cities grow

    The FT’s Thriving Cities series asks how we can innovate to make urban living healthier

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Inger Andersen
    The world’s cities must take on the cacophony of noise pollution

    Uncontrolled din can have a serious impact on the health of urban dwellers

  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    Special Report
    5G and Connectivity

    Fifth-generation networks offer higher data speeds and cut delays — to give almost instantaneous response, promising new opportunities and applications for business and consumers. So why has 5G been slow to make an impression on everyday life, and what can we expect next?

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Susan Etlinger
    Three ways to ensure health tech innovation benefits all

    ‘We need approaches that are inclusive by default’

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    The future of getting there
    Why the future of the city is congestion-free

    From parking lots to parklets, the ideas that can reshape our urban spaces

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    Special ReportPost-pandemic Cities
    Why the pandemic is a time to reimagine cities

    Forum: a greener ‘15-minute’, feminist city — can utopian urban dreams be made real?

  • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
    The Big Read
    Exporting Chinese surveillance: the security risks of ‘smart cities’

    Critics say the technology can be a tool for ‘digital authoritarianism’ and leaves countries vulnerable to cyber attack

  • Tuesday, 18 May, 2021
    Special Report
    The Cloud

    The cloud has become an integral part of IT systems worldwide, allowing the on-demand access of computer system resources, data storage and additional computing power. What opportunities and challenges can migration to the cloud present? This is the final part of the series.

  • Thursday, 6 May, 2021
    News in-depthCyber Security
    UK spies warn local authorities over ‘smart city’ tech risks

    Contracts could expose councils to cyber attacks or compromise individuals’ privacy

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    UK spy agencies push for curbs on Chinese ‘smart cities’ technology

    Intelligence chiefs fear Beijing could use it for espionage or the collection of sensitive data

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    A complete guide to the healthy home
    The path to the post-Covid city

    A year of the pandemic has laid bare the flaws of our great metropolises. Here’s how to make them healthier, cheaper and happier

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Special Report
    The Future of Cities

    Africa’s coming urbanisation explosion; radical redevelopment in Tokyo; bringing a tech city back to real life; ‘loose fit’ architecture; transport after Covid; urban sustainability; what is a healthy city?; refreshing a New York icon

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Urban planning
    How to make cities more liveable after Covid-19

    Different and imaginative uses of space will be crucial to the recovery of urban centres

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Internet of things
    Internet of Things help cities clean up their act

    Real-time monitoring is transforming our ability to nip disease outbreaks in the bud

  • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
    Anna Konig Jerlmyr
    ‘Flatten the curve’ of traffic to make cities liveable

    By deploying the strategy used to fight coronavirus, rush hour could be a thing of the past

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Robin Harding
    Cities are too resilient to be killed by Covid

    The imagined idyll of rural teleworking is merely an economic chimera

  • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    The post-Covid future of cities is in our hands Premium content

    Whether pandemic changes geographic advantages depends on policy choices

  • Monday, 13 July, 2020
    Special ReportE-mobility
    How e-mobility can find a home in the country

    While electric vehicles and e-scooters are proliferating in cities, challenges remain in rural areas

  • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
    Ben Rogers
    Cities are not dead — they will get younger

    Covid-19 will create opportunities for those who have been shut out of urban areas

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Camilla Cavendish
    The pandemic is killing the attraction of megacities

    You cannot be in the urban swing of things if there is no swing

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    Special ReportConsulting in Emerging Markets
    Tech consultants join Gulf’s fight against Covid-19

    Demand for tech services expected partly to counter pandemic downturn

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    Sidewalk Labs
    Google parent abandons plan for Toronto smart city

    Sidewalk Labs blames coronavirus pandemic for end of three-year project

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