Rethinking smart cities: An open-source tool for urban data collection

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What happened

A large part of urban planning involves navigating how people experience a place.

That kind of insight can require collecting data at a level of detail that large-scale datasets cannot provide.

Key facts

  • Reported by Phys.org and published Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:20:17 UTC.

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