Sidewalk Labs is an urban planning and infrastructure subsidiary of Google.
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11 Facts About Sidewalk Labs
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In 2019, Sidewalk Labs said it had consulted thousands of Torontonians for its development plans.
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Sidewalk Labs offers advisory services for real estate developers to use technology to meet environmental, affordability, and equity goals.
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In early 2016, Sidewalk Labs began working with ten cities which participated in the US Department of Transportation's "Smart Cities Challenge" to help cities better understand daily street activity through the use of real-time data.
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Sidewalk Labs invests in and incubates companies which develop tools that can support Sidewalk Labs initiatives and scale to cities around the world.
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In June 2015, Sidewalk Labs led a group of investors in the acquisition of Control Group and Titan forming a new company called Intersection.
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In 2018, Sidewalk Labs introduced a spin-off Coord, a company focused on providing RESTful APIs for accessing information like routing, bike share details, toll information, and curbside details.
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Sidewalk Labs invested in Boston-based robotic home interior design company Ori in 2019.
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In late 2019, Sidewalk Labs invested in VoltServer, which strives to "make electricity safe" and overlays data on electricity distribution.
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Sidewalk Labs provides a coffee table book to employees known as The Yellow Book, which contains aspirational designs of a futurist city run on its technology.
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Sidewalk Labs has described this book as a "wide-ranging brainstorming process", and stated that most of its ideas were never considered for the Toronto project.
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