Smart Cities & Technology

Highlights

All activities monitored: The 10 most surveilled major cities in the U.S.

Public close-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, or public video surveillance camera, hold...

Denver anticipates autonomous vehicles with cross-agency, cross-sector collaborative planning

Without early planning by regulators, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to fail on...

Revenue and zoning evolution prepares Seattle for an autonomous vehicle future

Although autonomous vehicles (AVs) are not fully ready for deployment, history provides strong...

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Why Tucson is building its own 4G network

The city of Tucson, Ariz., is weeks away from finishing the first phase of its 4G LTE network buildout. The city will initially use the network to connect around 1,000 kids in poor households to the Internet but eventually hopes to use the network for a variety of services ranging from smart city IoT operations […]

Commentary

Key steps governments can take to guard against malware attacks

2020 saw governments globally report more than 100 significant cyberattacks. In the United States, a major cyber-offensive was launched against multiple government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, with the extent of the attack and damage still unknown. These statistics show that government agencies, even the most sophisticated ones, are not immune to cyberattacks, […]

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2020 Crown Communities winner: El Paso County, Texas’ pretrial justice modernization

Since 2015, El Paso County, Texas, has undertaken a massive modernization of its pretrial justice programs. This overhaul consists of eight reforms, each of which targets a different part of the pretrial justice system. Not only are the reforms diverse; each one has had a quantifiable impact on El Paso County’s justice system. The county […]

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2020 Crown Communities Winner: South Bay Cities Council of Governments’ South Bay Fiber Network

American City & County traditionally awards its Crown Communities Awards to the exemplary projects of municipalities, counties, and subdivisions of local government like precincts or water districts. However, we felt that California joint powers authority South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG)’s impressive South Bay Fiber Network (SBFN) — which is benefiting its 16 member […]

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Updating the assessor report: A new approach

Ramsey County, Minn.’s new guiding practice is that any dataset available on its open data portal must include a data story

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Harris County, Texas, Precinct 2’s ACCESS2HEALTH SmartPod

Precinct 2 of Harris County, Texas, implemented a medical college’s innovative epidemiological technology to bring COVID-19 testing to its vulnerable residents. However, the precinct’s initiative and this technology could influence pandemic response across the country. Of all four precincts in Harris County, Texas, Precinct 2 has the lowest median life expectancy, the highest percentage of […]

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American City & County’s 2020 Crown Communities Awards

Projects nominated for American City & County’s annual Crown Communities Awards are judged on uniqueness, short- and long-term value to the community and effective/innovative financing.

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Rock Hill, S.C.’s My Ride

Rock Hill, S.C.’s My Ride project is a great example of how a city can solve multiple issues with one innovative project. My Ride is an all-electric, fare-free, fixed-route bus system that operates within Rock Hill (pop. 75,000). Seven electric buses ferry passengers over four routes that span across major corridors in the city. The […]

Commentary

COVID-19 and pivoting into a new year: It may be 2021, but did we really leave 2020?

As we continue to navigate 2021, many issues will require continued tech leadership and support to carry everyone through

Commentary

Artificial cities could pave the way to driverless adoption

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have a future. That is without doubt but there is still a need to ensure that they will be safe on our highways and to ease the public’s safety concerns to increase their adoption over the next few years. CAVs need to be able to react to unforeseen events – […]

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Smart Cities & Technology

Highlights

All activities monitored: The 10 most surveilled major cities in the U.S.

Denver anticipates autonomous vehicles with cross-agency, cross-sector collaborative planning

Revenue and zoning evolution prepares Seattle for an autonomous vehicle future

Article

Why Tucson is building its own 4G network

Commentary

Key steps governments can take to guard against malware attacks

Article

2020 Crown Communities winner: El Paso County, Texas’ pretrial justice modernization

Article

2020 Crown Communities Winner: South Bay Cities Council of Governments’ South Bay Fiber Network

Article

Updating the assessor report: A new approach

Article

2020 Crown Communities winner: Harris County, Texas, Precinct 2’s ACCESS2HEALTH SmartPod

Article

American City & County’s 2020 Crown Communities Awards

Article

2020 Crown Communities winner: Rock Hill, S.C.’s My Ride

Commentary

COVID-19 and pivoting into a new year: It may be 2021, but did we really leave 2020?

Commentary

Artificial cities could pave the way to driverless adoption

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