Sidewalk Labs
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| Subsidiary of Alphabet | |
| Industry | Urban planning, infastructure |
| Founded | June 10, 2015 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
Key people |
Dan Doctoroff Rohit Aggarwala Craig Nevill-Manning |
| Parent | Alphabet Inc. |
| Subsidiaries | Intersection |
| Slogan | "We're building a platform and a set of urban applications to accelerate innovation in cities around the world."[1] |
| Website |
sidewalklabs |
Sidewalk Labs is Alphabet Inc.'s urban innovation organization. Its goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions, and tackle issues such as cost of living, efficient transportation and energy usage.[2][3]
It is headed by Daniel L. Doctoroff, former deputy mayor of New York City for economic development and former chief executive of Bloomberg L.P.[4] Other members include West Coast-based former Andreessen Horowitz junior partner Sam Gerstenzang; Anand Babu, ex-Google manager of Google Now software;[5] and Craig Nevill-Manning, co-founder of Google's New York office and inventor of Froogle.[6]
Projects
Intersection and Link
Sidewalk Labs led the acquisition of Control Group and Titan forming a subsidiary called Intersection. As the the largest municipal media company in the U.S., Intersection cooperates with city governments to design media platforms that create public assets and serve the needs of advertising clients.[7]
Intersection's first product is LinkNYC, which is turning 7,500 old public pay phones into kiosks delivering free gigabit Wi-Fi, video and voice calling, and access to emergency and other city services across New York City. Intersection is exploring bringing Link to other cities.[8]
Flow
Sidewalk is also working with the U.S. Department of Transportation to assess road data gathered from smartphones to analyze congestion and other traffic conditions, and develop a transportation coordination platform to improve the efficiency of road, parking, and transit use.[3][9]
Project Sidewalk
Sidewalk plans to create a new city in the United States to test design ideas prior to real world implementation, such as self-driving cars, Wi-Fi networks, public transit, and other other technology applications to urban planning. Such a city is proposed to be home to "hundreds of thousands of people." Sidewalk has not decided on whether the city would be established on its own land, or whether it would accept bids from existing communities to be host to the project.[10]
References
- ↑ "Sidewalk Labs".
- ↑ "Sidewalk Labs" Seeks to Improve City Life
- 1 2 Alphabet Inc Subsidiary Sidewalk Labs Hints at Development Plans for a New City
- ↑ Lohr, Steve (2015-06-10). "Sidewalk Labs, a Start-Up Created by Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ "Meet Sidewalk Labs, Google's Company That's Trying to Fix Cities and the Internet All at Once". Re/code. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ "Sidewalk Labs, Google’s Company for Cities, Builds Its Inaugural Executive Team". Re/code. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ↑ Intersection official site
- ↑ Sidewalk Labs - Link NYC
- ↑ Sidewalk Labs - Flow
- ↑ McCormick, Rich (15 April 2016). "Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs plans to build the ultimate high-tech city". The Verge. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
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