Knowtex

Our technology predicts population and infrastructure behavior, providing actionable insights to city operators and impactful products to citizens.

City Forward is an online platform created by IBM that enables people to view and interact with data about cities.

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Part of cities' success in innovation is building partnerships with large businesses. For example, SAP Urban Matters just announced a partnership with Boston to bring advanced enterprise software and analytics into the government.

In fact, though resilience and sustainability—two of the hottest buzzwords in urban planning—are practically used interchangeably, they are in fact in some tension with each other.

As cities heat up roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet, there are things communities can do to combat it.

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformer.

Technology is helping cities control everything from traffic to disease. But who should control the technology?

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and BuzzData want you to tell us where the best city in the world is – and prove it with data and a visualization.

Governments, particularly local governments, need to do more to understand and adapt to what might be called DIY citizenship.