Making cities smarter with technology

Stuart Sumner
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How the likes of IBM and Oracle are helping municipal authorities around the world to "optimise their infrastructure"

Populations in cities across the world, and in the UK especially, are growing. London is currently home to more than 7.5 million people, and that figure is expected to grow by more than a million b...

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