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Smart City by Google (Toronto, Sidewalk Labs)

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/24/google-alphabet-sidewalk-labs-toronto
 
==Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name - The Guardian - 2017==
<blockquote>"Aside from the institutional investors shopping for entire city blocks, Alphabet understands the real audience for its cities: the global rich. For them, the narratives of data-driven sustainability and algorithmically produced artisanal lifestyles – Sidewalk Labs even promises “a next-gen bazaar” replenished by local communities of makers – are just another way to justify rising values of their property portfolios.
 
That Alphabet’s “urbanism as a service” might not appeal to the residents of Toronto does not matter. As a real estate project, its chief goal is to impress its future missing residents –above all, millions of Chinese millionaires flocking to Canada’s housing markets. Doctoroff was not equivocating when he told the Globe and Mail that Alphabet’s Canadian venture “primarily is a real-estate play”." </blockquote>
 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data
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