In the coming years and decades, Hong Kong’s smart cities adventures will be a lively interplay among dynamic and evolving technologies, often-mercurial public sentiments, and the government’s desire for control and stability. The smart cities…
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Economic growth and population migration have driven urban sprawl in the American Sunbelt for decades. Some cities have been particularly effective in parlaying windfall growth into visibility and unique urban identities. The ‘it’ status that…
Today’s smart city projects maintain their first-generation focus on technology, with data collection and monitoring dashboards helping public agencies improve service quality and consistency. Emerging technologies like AI, IoT, and machine learning are pushing smarteness…
The regionalization and integration of the circular economy is an important and exciting moment for ASEAN, and will be watched by observers of both industrial activity and policymaking. As home to numerous thriving industries but…
The relatively few people who feed pigeons probably believe they are doing something good – or at least something innocent. Addressing an issue like this takes a cultural shift in values or everyday habits, something…
The pathway to integrated smartness on Hong Kong’s roads could be long and costly. Our public transit system is arguably among the best in the world. How much better do we need it to work?…
PDF: Hartley_Cliburn-review_June-21-2022-e Review of Yunchan Lim’s Gold Medal winning performance at the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Sergey Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D-minor Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop June…
Power dynamics shape and reshape water diplomacy and impact water conflicts, cooperation, and the status-quo. Analysis of conflict and cooperation can help specify the need for particular terms of agreement in water diplomacy. Institutional design…
Emerging technologies are changing how groundwater policy decisions are made, by expanding monitoring and communications. The science-policy interface is facilitated by these technologies but also remains a primarily political dynamic, underscoring the importance of communication…
Governments must recognise that technology does not exist in a vacuum but amid broader social, political and economic forces that are often unpredictable. The security and privacy concerns of citizens cannot be dismissed through assurances…
