A busy week ahead. I have a number of online events coming up, which may be of interest to followers of this website.

The recent decision by Alphabet to scrap its ambitious waterfront regeneration project in Toronto is a landmark in the short history of smart cities.

This is my third daily blog from the 10th World Urban Forum.

Inside the slums and gated communities the opportunities and obstacles to sustainable and inclusive urban development can be seen.

A paper in a leading scientific journal calls for much greater engagement of scientists in urban policy and practice.

The exhibition at the Ninth World Urban Forum highlights the Asian embrace of Smart Cities.

How can cities in the rapidly urbanising world benefit from Smart City approaches to urban management?

The first issue of a new journal gives insights to new ways of thinking about cities.

In his Guest Blog, Klaus Kunzmann reports from China of the pressures to make "smart cities".

The changes taking place in South Asian cities are th focus of a major conference in Lahore next year, for which proposals for paper are now invited. The organisers make the point that much urban research has focused on Europe and North America, while the dramatic urbanisation of South Asia has received much less attention.