As smart cities become our norm, we must be smart about a data strategy

Toronto’s Quayside development isn’t the first municipal project to use technology to gather data about infrastructure and human activity. Other projects haven’t attracted the governance debates that enfold Quayside—but perhaps they should.

The Cherry Street lift-bridge in the Toronto Port Lands district, pictured in 2017. The area is the subject of Sidewalk Toronto’s smart-city redevelopment project. Photograph courtesy of Jeff Hitchcock

Opinion

BY TERESA SCASSA

February 13, 2019

Canadians’ attention has been drawn to the issue of smart cities by the public debate over the merits of Sidewalk Labs’ proposed Quayside development in Toronto. The project brings home a vision of cities embedded with sensors that continuously harvest data about infrastructure and human activit...

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