• The company that started as a search engine could someday create a city.
• We decided to take the plans a step further, envisioning what an entire Google City could look like.
• In the cities, which will be selected as part of the $40-million Smart Cities competition , Google will build up infrastructure for driverless cars, data sensors, connected vehicles, and public WiFi.
• Google declined to give us input on what its city might look like, so we drew ideas from Brooks Rainwater , the Director of the City Solutions and Applied Research Center at the National League of Cities, as well as Google’s existing projects and investments .
• Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., recently announced its intentions to build a “Smart City” within one or more existing cities across the US.

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