Urban Infrastructure

Author Shannon Mattern argues that "urban intelligence is more than information processing."

Describes the integration of communication systems into all aspects of electricity generation and consumption.

How surveillance technology has become a central part of smart city design, causing worries about personal freedoms and privacy.

Free access to research studies on smart cities and the technologies that support them.

Smart city news and resource downloads available with free registration.

This guide from the Smart Cities Council is a glossary of terms, each of which are linked to articles that provide deeper coverage of each term.

This 2017 article "provides a brief presentation of the evolution of the 'smart city' term and the most representative characteristics of it."

Top news stories and in-depth feature articles on issues surrounding smart city initiatives.

A brief video from CNBC that explains how surveillance cameras, big data, and the Internet-of-things define the smart city.