Sidewalk Labs has developed a draft for a set of universal signs that would be displayed on streets when smart city systems are observing people and provide some explanation as to why and how much data is being recorded.
"Across nearly every dimension of urban life--mobility, sustainability, public realm, buildings, and digital innovation--the plan breaks new ground," including "the first neighborhood built entirely of mass timber," notes
Sidewalk Labs, which characterizes the material as "easier to manufacture and better for the environment than concrete or steel, yet just as strong and fire-resistant."
It is probably time to establish a platform for accelerating urban innovation, a kind of
Sidewalk Labs for Africa.
Google
Sidewalk Labs has formed a partnership with Waterfront Toronto.
Sidewalk Labs Waterfront Toronto Numerous smart-city schemes have run into delays, dialed down their ambitious goals, or priced out everyone except the super-wealthy.
More modest in scale but equally grand in vision is the partnership between Alphabet's
Sidewalk Labs and the city of Toronto to redevelop 12 acres as an incubus of a new modernism.
As a sign of the times, Google/Alphabet has heavily funded
Sidewalk Labs, whose goal is to build a blueprint for new cities and replicate it throughout the world.
Allen's Vulcan Inc., cloud partner Amazon Web Services, NXP[R] Semiconductors, Mobileye, Autodesk, Alphabet's
Sidewalk Labs, AT&T, DC Solar, and Continental Automotive.
"The focus that Google has applied to this challenge, with its
Sidewalk labs being one outlet, show that both cities and startups see commercial value in exploring smart city concepts to tackle a range of issues.
Last June, Alphabet, Google's parent company, launched
Sidewalk Labs, an urban technology startup helmed by Dan Doctoroff, the deputy mayor of economic developer under Michael Bloomberg and the former CEO of the billionaire's namesake company.
India, April 7 --
Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, is a young company - about a year old, working to improve WiFi availability and traffic in cities.
