Tomorrow's cities: Google's Toronto city built 'from the internet up'The vision is to have a bustling city that works for everyone -- Photo: SIDEWALK LABSOn Toronto's Eastern waterfront, a new digital city is being built by Sidewalk Labs - a firm owned by Google's parent Alphabet.It hopes the project will become a model for 21st-Century urbanism. Sidewalk Labs promises to transform the disused waterfront area into a bustling mini metropolis, one built "from the internet up", although there is no timetable for when the city will actually be built. These are real and prescient issues for the city of Toronto," he told the BBC. "Sidewalk talks about open data, but from the very start the one thing that they are not making public is their agreement with Waterfront Toronto." Waterfront Toronto is the organisation charged with revitalising the area around the city's harbour.

Source: VietNamNet News May 28, 2018 05:15 UTC