Google is building a smart city from the (under)ground up

Connecting local infrastructure to make it ‘smart’ is not ambitious enough for Google, so it’s building an entire city itself. We first heard of Google's plans in 2017 but details were scarce. Now we're getting a bit more information along with some renders of what it should look like. A group within Alphabet, Google's parent company, is technically behind the project. Sidewalk Labs “imagines, designs, tests, and builds urban innovations to help cities meet their biggest challenges.” The city is called Quayside and is based on the waterfront in Toronto, Canada. For such a project, a couple of renowned architecture studios had to be employed. Snøhetta and Heatherwick Studio were the chosen two.