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Georgia Tech Hosts Beyond Smart Symposium
Interdisciplinary scholars from around the world gathered in Tech Square on April 25 and 26 for the Beyond Smart Symposium. They reflected on issues of researching smart city deployments and projects...
Georgia Smart Hosts Community Growth Workshop
A day-long workshop at the GTRI Conference Center in Midtown brought together local governments, government associations, industry, and academia to explore potential smart community initiatives as...
Data-Driven Policing
In an effort to reduce police officer response times to calls for assistance, Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Police Department partnered on a year-long project to reconfigure patrol areas across the...
Chamblee Explores Development of a Shared Autonomous Shuttle
The history of the City of Chamblee, incorporated in 1908, is closely linked with the development and use of modern transportation in the United States. In the early 20th century, the city sat at the...
Making the Case for Urban Air Mobility in Atlanta
If you think Atlanta traffic is bad now, a recent UN study predicts that 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. That’s a lot of cars on the roads come 5 o...
Hot Cities 2050

What will happen when our cities are too hot to control and live in, can we manage? Researchers, city officials, entrepreneurs, industry specialists, and journalists from across the country gathered...