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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: February at DG Cities

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The shortest month of the year has lived up to expectations and flown by at record pace. Despite the relentless nature of lockdown, time really does seem to have flown and it’s been nearly a year now since the full team was together in our Greenwich office.

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: January at DG Cities

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: January at DG Cities

We made it through January and the first month of Lockdown 3! While this has undeniably been the toughest lockdown so far, 2021 has certainly got off to a flying start here at DG Cities and we continue to be working on a wide variety of exciting innovation projects and client work.

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: February at DG Cities

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: February at DG Cities

February: it seemed like it passed in a blink of an eye, even with the extra day this year. For Team DGC, it’s been another jam-packed one, full of everything from housing repairs to building works and even sustainable furniture…

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: January at DG Cities

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: January at DG Cities

January: the month that always feels like a year. Not for Team DGC though; the month flew by with exciting meetings with potential clients, projects continuing and ending, and even a trip to visit the Brompton factory. No time for winter blues over here!

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The Beginner’s Guide to the ULEZ: What is it and Why is it Important to Our City?

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The Beginner’s Guide to the ULEZ: What is it and Why is it Important to Our City?

If you’re in London, you’ve probably noticed signs scattered throughout the city hoping to catch the attention of busy passersby to remind them that the ULEZ is coming. Perhaps you’ve spotted one during your morning commute on the tube, or seen one fixed to the side of the bus as it whizzed past you on your way home. But what actually is the ULEZ? …

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Identifying Problems and Offering Solutions: The Case of Google and Breathe London

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Identifying Problems and Offering Solutions: The Case of Google and Breathe London

It was released in the news last month that Google will be monitoring air quality within the Greater London Area, mapping real-time pollution levels using their StreetView cars. The new monitoring programme forms part of Breathe London, an initiative made up of a consortium of partners including various health and scientific experts as well as the Mayor of London. Breathe London aims to develop policy responses that help to improve the wellbeing and air quality of London and other cities worldwide.

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A Different Sort of Click

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A Different Sort of Click

In March 2018 DG were invited, with the DfT, by the GovTech Challenge to run a competition which would allow companies to apply for funding to develop an innovative, technology-based approach to improve understanding of exactly what is moving on our roads, and when.

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Taking Bin Lorries to the Next Level

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The urban environment is an opportunity area for multiple actors; politicians, businesses and citizens, to make large-scale changes that dramatically reduce our impact on the environment. As a hotbed for new innovations, financial investment and governmental institutions, the city has the power to scale new technologies and influence our daily practices and infrastructure to ensure our cities (and the wider environment) continue to be a healthy and thriving place to live.

Bringing New Technologies Into Our Cities

DG Cities recently participated in the CUES Venture Programme focusing on Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Social Impact in Cambridge. The event, organised by CUES (Cambridge University Engineering Society, www.cues.org.uk) focused on technology applications and initiatives that could improve the city we live in.