The city in focus
What does the sustainable city of the future look like? How are KTH’s researchers and students contributing toward the city’s development? This series of articles highlights ways in which Stockholm—and the world—stand to benefit from research and education at Sweden’s largest technical university.
![Visualising airborne pollutants is important in helping people understand how serious an issue this is. Photo: Mike Kienle (Här är Stockholmsluften som skitigast_liten.jpg) A dull and grey street in Stockholm](/polopoly_fs/1.1163108.1650516861!/image/H%C3%A4r%20%C3%A4r%20Stockholmsluften%20som%20skitigast_liten.jpg)
Collaboration to visualize air quality in Stockholm
Cities suffer from air pollution, and Stockholm is no exception. Researchers at KTH are working to develop technology to show where in the city the air is the worst to breathe, so that pedestrians and...
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Students advise city on its plans to reverse neighborhoods’ isolation
Social and physical segregation are two of the problems one Swedish city hopes to reverse with a little help from students at KTH.
Read the article![Stockholm Heat is one example of a smart city project that is being implemented within the parameters of Stockholm Senseable Lab. Researchers in the project are using a method, City Scanner, where low cost sensors that measure the ambient and ground temperature, are fitted to pod taxis. Photo: Susanne Kronholm (City scanner_poddtaxi_toppbild.jpg) Pod taxis with low-cost sensors measuring the temperature at Kungsholms Strand in Stockholm.](/polopoly_fs/1.1157009.1648643864!/image/City%20scanner_poddtaxi_toppbild.jpg)
Ethics are important when working with smart cities
One key to achieve Stockholm’s vision of being the world’s smartest city by 2040, is the use of digitalisation, sensors and artificial intelligence (AI), to analyse huge volumes of data that are gener...
Read the article- Collaboration to visualize air quality in Stockholm
21 Apr 2022
- Students advise city on its plans to reverse neighborhoods’ isolation
5 Apr 2022
- Ethics are important when working with smart cities
30 Mar 2022
- How AI can improve elderly care
21 Mar 2022
- Viable Cities inspires the world to create climate city contracts
18 Mar 2022
- Autonomous vehicles en route to the city
14 Mar 2022