FutureStructure Infrastructure
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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Satellite data reveal the severity of California’s drought on water resources across the state.
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The plunging price of gasoline presents an opportunity to upgrade the nation's crumbling transportation infrastructure.
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Gov.-elect Tom Wolf said he wants to lead a statewide discussion about how the future of older cities such as Scranton, inner-ring suburbs and the surrounding townships are interrelated.
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A network of charging stations could make a road trip from St. Louis to Chicago more likely in an electric vehicle, without having to haul a generator.
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A holistic approach is necessary to successfully plan and construct energy efficient buildings. But implementing best practices elsewhere is not a straightforward task.
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The event boasted a stellar cast of public and private sector leaders who had assembled to engage in ongoing dialogue about continuing the transformation of the world’s cities.
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The newly devised solar solution could be used to coat all kinds of weirdly shaped surfaces, from patio furniture to an airplane’s wing.
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The San Joaquin Valley has been a center of oil and gas exploration development and production in California for over a century and also has some of the most stringent limits on emissions in the nation.
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Wearable technology is approaching a point at which users themselves become part of the city-as-a-system.
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Seven major trends have the potential to reshape government - in many cases from the outside - and transform the public sector.
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The building blocks of tomorrow are often the same as they were in the past - only now the materials themselves have become smarter.
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The group representing the wind energy industry is "optimistic" Congress will renew a tax credit benefitting its members by the end of the year.
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A landmark agreement between the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a major breakthrough.
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From high-rises to subdivisions, the U.S. is getting closer to building sustainable and resilient zero-net energy communities.
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Imagine a community where nothing goes to waste. Instead, every material and object is recycled and turned into something useful.
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Grey water systems that take spent water from showers, bathroom faucets and washers and use it to quench the landscape are seen by some as the next step in sustainability.
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A natural disaster such as the one-two punch that was Irene and Lee demonstrate the threshold that utilities have to meet when hardening their systems against storms.
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From driverless cars to zero-net energy neighborhoods to self-healing concrete, cities are the 21st century intersection of ideas, infrastructure and technology.
