Smart City News – Dallas Living Wall IoT SmartCityDive News Apr2020 Real estate investment firm Rastegar Property Company announced plans to build a “living wall” on its 26-story condo development in Dallas. The wall, made up of more than 40,000 plants, is estimated to capture more than 1,600 pounds of carbon dioxide and produce 1,200 pounds of oxygen each year. The wall is… Read More »
From TimesUnion Apr2020 SCHENECTADY – Mayor Gary McCarthy is worried that $2 million in funding being temporarily held up by fellow Democrats over concerns about the coronavirus could jeopardize his push to put the city on the cutting edge of technology. He acknowledged that so far most of the millions in outlay toward furthering his efforts to make… Read More »
COVID-19 Adverse Affect on City Budgets article from SmartCityDive Apr2020 Only 36 of more than 19,000 U.S. cities are eligible for relief funding from the CARES Act. The National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors are demanding $250 billion for those left out. Pandemic costs are ‘blowing massive holes’ in cities’ budgets Dive Brief: The U.S. Conference… Read More »
Smart City Images Photos We are still in the building phase of the website. I need photos of smart cities that I can use on the site and in the Pinterest page. We have lots of images we will add but we want to personally request any images you are willing to contribute. We will add acknowledgement for… Read More »
From the CoinTelegraph Apr 2020 By Jonathan Reichental Excerpt: My journey into smart cities and their future development was a really big surprise, as the way I arrived there was not something that I had planned. I was working as the chief information officer for a company in Northern California called O’Reilly Media when I got a call from a headhunter who… Read More »
From SmartCitiesDive Apr 2020 Excerpt: The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought many networking opportunities to a screeching halt as event planners are forced to readjust or cancel highly anticipated smart city conferences. The National Shared Mobility Summit, which was scheduled to occur last month in Chicago at the McCormick Place convention center, is one of these affected events.… Read More »
