In October 2017, Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto set out to plan a shared vision for Quayside, a fundamentally more sustainable and affordable community resulting from innovations in technology and urban design. …

My remarks to the introductory meeting of the Sidewalk Labs Toronto Advisory Council — Editor’s Note: Sidewalk Labs has been engaged in an extensive public consultation plan as part of its Sidewalk Toronto project. The newly formed Sidewalk Labs Toronto Advisory Council is yet another opportunity to learn from a broad range of Toronto-based individuals and organizations across sectors. …

Over the past year, Sidewalk Labs conducted a detailed thought experiment on the future of cities. Here’s what we learned, and how we hope to accelerate urban innovation. — It’s been a little more than a year since Alphabet (then Google) and I launched Sidewalk Labs. Larry Page and I shared a view that a combination of digital technologies — ubiquitous connectivity, social networks, sensing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and new design and fabrication technologies — would help…

The conversations we had about the future of mobility during the DOT Smart City Challenge were just the beginning of a longer collaboration. — Public transportation is absolutely vital to a great city, and local agencies are always looking for new ways to improve it. That was certainly the case when I was deputy mayor of New York and helped lead the city’s first subway extension in more than 25 years, culminating in the…

When Larry Page announced the creation of Sidewalk Labs last summer, he recognized that digital innovations have an enormous capacity to address big urban challenges like housing affordability, transportation efficiency, and energy conservation. One of the barriers to faster and wider change is a lack of dialogue between the people…