Google wants to build entire cities. Well not Google but Alphabet, Google’s parent company, through their smart city spin-off Sidewalk Labs. Sidewalk Labs describes itself as “an urban innovation company devoted to improving city life for residents, businesses and city governments, in particular by developing and incubating civic technologies”. Now, one year after its establishment, the company seems to be on the verge of selecting an urban location to completely reinvent as a Tech-topia. The Sidewalk Labs project would make way for self-driving cars, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high-tech housing units for tens of thousands of residents and workers. Reports suggest that New York based Sidewalk Labs is set to pitch a proposal to rebuild part of a struggling American city as a new high-tech smart city. Announcing the new company in June last year, CEO, Dan Doctoroff said: “We are at the beginning of a historic transformation in cities. At […]