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Alphabet City: Google's Plan to Build Our Urban Environments

Alphabet City: Google's Plan to Build Our Urban Environments

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Feb 10, 2020
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Smart cities have made the headlines of late, most notably after Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs revealed its plans for the Toronto waterfront.

The temptation to create a tech-infused Utopia is nothing new, but these plans are closer to concrete reality than ever before. Well, timber reality. Concrete is so 20th century.

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