Toronto is giving Google’s parent company, Alphabet, the green light to create a smart city with its subsidiary Sidewalk Labs, Reuters reported Friday (Nov. 15). Sidewalk was granted permission by Waterfront Toronto to develop 12 acres. Final project evaluation and public input is scheduled for...
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs and public corporation Waterfront Toronto are moving forward on a deal to develop the “city of the future” nearly two years after the deal was proposed. Bloomberg is reporting that the two sides are addressing a number of issues ahead of an...
Aiming to gain insight into how people commute through the city, Portland has rolled out a pilot project to replicate data on their movements. According to a report in GeekWire, the project relies on mobile software from Sidewalk Labs, the Google-owned startup. The Replica software...
To create a smart city on the waterfront of Toronto, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is reportedly looking for a share of development fees, increased land value and property taxes for the project in the Canadian city. The funds would reach roughly $6 billion over a period spanning...
May 07, 2020
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is pulling the plug on its plans to create a smart city district in Toronto, CEO Daniel L. Doctoroff said in a Medium post Thursday (May 7). For more than two years, Sidewalk Labs worked with Waterfront Toronto to generate plans for Quayside, a smart city […]
November 15, 2019
Toronto is giving Google’s parent company, Alphabet, the green light to create a smart city with its subsidiary Sidewalk Labs, Reuters reported Friday (Nov. 15). Sidewalk was granted permission by...
October 25, 2019
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs and public corporation Waterfront Toronto are moving forward on a deal to develop the “city of the future” nearly two years after the deal was proposed. Bloomberg...
May 28, 2019
Aiming to gain insight into how people commute through the city, Portland has rolled out a pilot project to replicate data on their movements. According to a report in GeekWire,...
