Google wants to build its own futuristic, smart city

Google Wants To Build Its Own Futuristic, Smart City

Apr 28, 2016 Leave a message

Google's "Smart City" would provide an area to test everything from self-driving cars to a more efficient way to deliver water and electricity. Sidewalk Labs is currently finishing up its proposal to build new districts of housing, offices, and retail within existing cities. The Alphabet subsidiary wants full autonomy from city regulations so it can build without constraint. Sidewalk CEO Dan Doctoroff, who served as deputy mayor of economic development for New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has hinted at his desire to build a smart city in the past during a speech at New York University in February. "That is why the combination of Google, which focuses on the technology, and, me, who focuses on quality of life, urbanity, etc., we think is a relatively unique combination,” Doctoroff said, according to the WSJ.

Send Inquiry