With 36 buildings, 25,000 employees, and hundreds of acres of land, the San Diego campus of telecommunications giant Qualcomm is almost a city in itself. That made it the perfect testing ground ...

A 2016 report from the National League of Cities estimates that 66% of American cities had already invested in some type of ‘smart city’ technology, from intelligent meters that collect and share data ...

Data drives the bus in smart cities. In response, municipalities worldwide are embracing “smart city” concepts and tools. Technology specialists such as Honeywell apply the latest generation ...

Google parent Alphabet has legions of Web developers. Soon it might be in need of real-estate developers as it plans to delve into an ambitious new arena: city building.

Photo: Josh Edelson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Google’s parent abandoned plans to develop a “smart city” in a Toronto neighborhood, a controversial project that once embodied the tech ...

Additional quality-of-life indicators that can see improvement with smart city technologies are job availability, cost of living, social connectedness, and even public health, according to the report.