The project began more than three years ago after the Toronto decided to revitalize the city’s past industrial lake shore. A government agency ‘Waterfront Toronto’ was set up to seek ...

Mississauga did not win in its category in a 2017 Smart City Challenge by the federal government, involving more than 130 cities competing for $5 million to $50 million in onetime funding, but it ...

The proposed site of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs 'smart city' is seen after the company announced it has pulled out of its project due to economic uncertainty in Toronto, on May 7, 2020.

Smart city scholar Shannon Mattern has scrutinized Hudson Yards and notes the project’s “embedded” data infrastructure meshed well with Bloomberg’s outlook.

The Quayside project, a proposed smart city in the underused Port Lands area of Toronto spearheaded by Google sister company Sidewalk Labs, sounded appealing at first, said Balsillie.