Cambridge and Nanjing break ground on 'smart cities' Centre
10 September 2019The University of Cambridge and the Nanjing Municipal Government have broken ground on the Cambridge University-Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation.
Cambridge researchers supporting world's largest air quality monitoring network in London
17 January 2019Cambridge researchers are using their expertise in air quality sensors to support the new Breathe London project launched by Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier this week.
Children of the city: tackling violence in the 21st century
06 November 2018Up to one billion children worldwide are estimated to be victims of violence. Now, an intended study of 12,000 children in eight cities worldwide wants to discover what it really means to be a child of the city today – the adversities, the vulnerabilities, the resilience.
Location, location, location: researchers develop model to predict retail failure
09 October 2018Researchers have used a combination of location and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail.
Cambridge and Nanjing launch strategic collaboration
27 March 2018The new joint centre will support innovative research into smart cities and fully integrated urban environments.
Opinion: How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities
08 November 2016Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned about water management in Nepal and India can guide how cities can be made "ecologically smart".
