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Smart street furniture in Australia: a public service or surveillance and advertising tool?

      A smart light pole in the UK can also recognise faces and numberplates and detect speeding. Nazlika/Wikimedia Common Smart street furniture – powered and digitally...

What next for parklets? It doesn’t have to be a permanent switch back to parking

  Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Author provided Outdoor dining on former parking spaces – generally known as parklets – has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reduced demand for...

Flat Findings: A Cheat Sheet For First-Time Apartment Living

Living in an apartment is one of the most practical, cost-effective and low-maintenance ways of setting up your first home. Apartments are easy to...

4 ways our streets can rescue restaurants, bars and cafes after coronavirus

Picture: Nils Versemann/Shutterstock As Australia re-opens, the bars, cafes and restaurants that give life to our streets face a tough ask: stay open and stay...

Smart city or not? Now you can see how yours compares

Smart is as smart does. f11photo/Shutterstock The highest-ranked areas in an Australia-wide assessment of smart city performance are all in metropolitan regions with higher population...

The old road rules no longer apply: how e-scooters challenge outdated assumptions

E-scooters are increasingly used for urban transport, but the road rules treat them as recreational devices and their users as pedestrians. haireena/Shutterstock Many people want changes...

As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis

Melbourne is one Australian city that’s moving to improve its waste management and reduce its reliance on trucks to collect waste. TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock Total global...

Smart Bus Services: An Eco-Friendly Alternative to Ride Hailing?

Back in June, an Egyptian transportation startup Swvl raised a series B funding of $42 million. The company aspires to be an international leader...

Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first

If a vehicle was coming through this intersection would this pedestrian have right of way? Stephen Di Donato/Good Free Photos You are walking east on...

To bolster our fragile road and rail system we need to add a ‘micro-mobility’ network

In cities like Copenhagen that have good infrastructure for cycling.it’s an established commuting option alongside road and rail. Wikimedia Commons We all know the...
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