I asked Aggarwala to describe the business model for Quayside.
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"Quayside will be a prototype for a broader opportunity," Doctoroff said.
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That only works if Quayside improves with its human residents in mind.
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Sidewalk envisions a similar all-in-one system for transportation in Quayside.
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It is not yet known what business model Sidewalk Labs plans for Quayside.
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Many aspects of public life in Quayside will be tracked by data sensors.
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THE quayside roads that wind along the Seine used to throb with hurtling traffic.
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Or quayside in Dub, watching summer hail bounce off the backs of upturned iPhones.
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It's still not clear how people and companies will be selected to occupy Quayside, although Micah Lasher, head of policy and communications at Sidewalk Labs, said in an email to Motherboard that it wants Quayside to reflect Toronto's economic and cultural diversity.
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With Quayside, Google has the chance to rollout self-driving cars faster than its rivals.
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In just a few years, it will be a techified community going by the name of Quayside.
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Sidewalk Labs has faced growing scrutiny over its plans to put sensors and cameras all over Quayside.
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A new series of waterfront developments, including a high-tech district called Quayside, is in the works.
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Other efforts to prevent catastrophe in the slowly sinking city include coastal reinforcement, quayside elevation, and lagoon buttressing.
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Other efforts to prevent catastrophe in the slowly sinking city include coastal reinforcement, quayside elevation, and lagoon buttressing.
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A while later, Stobbe was tending to a quayside fire when a friend told him to look up.
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CROSSING THE QUAYSIDE road in Ambon, the capital of Indonesia's remote Maluku province, requires care, speed and nerve.
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The TEXO Group will undertake the work at its quayside facilities in the city of Dundee, Orbital said.
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She told reporters on the quayside she would defend seafarers and all endangered sectors against invasive EU regulations.
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It will lease a new waterfront office in summer, where it will showcase some Quayside technologies, he said.
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Many of the treasures revealed by the receding waterline are leftovers from nights of quayside picnics and partying.
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I realized at that moment that we would be wise to take Google's utopian claims about Quayside seriously.
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Sidewalk Labs originally proposed an independent "urban data trust" to manage the data collected in Toronto's Quayside project.
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Sidewalk Labs says that collecting, aggregating and analysing such volumes of data will make Quayside efficient, liveable and sustainable.
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After the visit to Gateshead, Harry watched as prospective runners took part in drills and exercises at Quayside, Newcastle.
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As for intellectual property, Waterfront Toronto has now been included in potential future revenues from products created in Quayside.
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On the one hand, Sidewalk Labs' Quayside project embraces beloved Silicon Valley concepts like data crunching and constant iteration.
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As I wrote in my story, the new community, to be called Quayside, will bristle with sensors, including cameras.
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More important questions and criticisms have been raised about Waterfront Toronto's handling of the Quayside bidding process and its transparency.
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Long, wide cracks appeared in the asphalt on the quayside, which is near a tourist strip of cafes and bars.
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But in places such as Quayside, where self-driving cars must use artificial intelligence to navigate city streets, it's data.
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The odd rotting fish on the quayside apart, what harm do a few more lets or hindrances at the border do?
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The left bank's quayside road was closed to cars in 2013, six years after the city installed a bike-sharing scheme.
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Indeed, at one point Sidewalk Labs proposed setting up an independent trust that would analyze and approve data collection in Quayside.
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Sidewalk is not the only entity interested in the Quayside land, even if it has some very shiny ideas to offer.
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Mr. Doctoroff, who peppers conversations about Quayside with references to "consultation" and "transparency," came to Toronto fully expecting concerns and criticism.
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His restaurant Maruja Limón on the quayside in Vigo, Spain, is hailed for its adaptation of classic Galician recipes to modern techniques.
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I choose David Norslup's 1865 oil on wood painting, "Negro Boys on the Quayside" for 250 cubes, the game's version of money.
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Waterfront Toronto, the municipal partner organization for the Quayside project, will offer its feedback on the proposal after Sidewalk Labs' presentation on Thursday.
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Here are a few key technologies that already exist in some form and what Sidewalk would do with them in the Quayside project.
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Sidewalk is proposing to streamline and simplify the application for the affordable housing that will make up 40% of the apartments in Quayside.
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IN NORTH JAKARTA, not far from a quayside where workers unload frozen mackerel, a derelict building stands a metre deep in murky water.
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A year ago, Waterfront Toronto enlisted Alphabet-backed Sidewalk Labs to create a plan for a smart city neighborhood in the city's Quayside development.
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A Sidewalk Labs rendering of its vision for Toronto's Quayside, including self-driving vehicles, mixed traffic, plenty of trees, and those flexible, hexagonal pavers.
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Its winning proposal pitched transforming Quayside into a mini-smart city with automated trash collection, autonomous vehicles, and a high-tech approach to sustainability.
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In an attempt to ease people's minds, Sidewalk Labs said late last year it would not commercialize or sell the data gathered at Quayside.
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For example, Sidewalk Labs proposes that an IDEA District (Innovative Development and Economic Activation) encompassing the original Quayside site and nearby lands be established.
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Quayside, as the project is known, will be laden with sensors and cameras tracking everyone who lives, works or merely passes through the area.
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Sidewalk has defended the choice, stating that the Quayside land is permitted to be high-density, and the tall timber buildings are accommodating that.
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Sidewalk has defended the choice, stating that the Quayside land is permitted to be high-density, and the tall timber buildings are accommodating that.
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That was when Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, won a competition to develop a neighborhood called Quayside on Toronto's waterfront.
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Statues of North Korea's two former leaders stand on the quayside, where tourists are expected to bow and buy plastic flowers to offer them.
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Sidewalk's proposed development encompasses 12 acres of land called the Quayside, and the River District, a 202020-acre area that Sidewalk Labs plans tor develop.
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The cost of the project, currently dubbed Quayside, is likely to run over $1 billion, according to an earlier report by The Wall Street Journal.
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Sidewalk's proposed development encompasses 12 acres of land called the Quayside, and the River District, a 153-acre area that Sidewalk Labs plans tor develop.
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Taxpayers are partly footing the bill, and if all goes according to plan, possibly thousands of people will call the neighbourhood of Quayside their home.
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I'm met quayside by one of them, Caterina Vinhena, who helps manage all the agriculture here as well as nine cottages and a small restaurant.
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The Quayside and Villiers West is said to cost C$3.9 billion, with Sidewalk Labs and local partners planning a C$900 million equity investment.
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The sea views, the greenery, the two 18-hole golf courses, a casino and a marina festooned with quayside restaurants are selling points, transport links aren't.
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If its detailed plan is approved later this year (by Waterfront Toronto and also by various city authorities), it could start work at Quayside in 2020.
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Dating back to 1681, the quayside once throbbed with the shouts and laughs of traders from around the world, today it's an altogether more peaceful affair.
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Privacy concerns will doubtless arise—over what data the sensors at Quayside will hoover up, who will own them, where they will be housed and so on.
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In October, the Alphabet-owned company announced that it had formed a partnership with the city to revitalize a 12-acre swath of lakeside property called Quayside.
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Now, after 18 months of speculation, work, and backlash from local advocates, the company has a 1,524-page master plan for the 12-acre lot, called Quayside.
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"We hear about going through Albania…I'm waiting to get some firm offers," says Ali Hussain, a student from Kabul living in a tent on the quayside.
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Quayside will be first, and serve as a test site for technology like trash-carry robots and what it calls a "people-first street network," among other plans.
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COST AND FUNDING The Quayside and Villiers West is said to cost C$3.9 billion, with Sidewalk Labs and local partners planning a C$900 million equity investment.
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That divide, between tech types and city-planning specialists, will also need to be bridged before Sidewalk Labs can stick a shovel in the soggy ground at Quayside.
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Cranes lift containers smoothly on and off enormous ships berthed at the quayside while rows of new cars await shipment to destinations including the United States and Asia.
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According to Sidewalk Labs' proposal, the data trust for Quayside will manage access for any company that wants to use data collected from people living in the neighbourhood.
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The plan is more than 1,500 pages long and details designs for not just the initially-considered 4.8 hectare Quayside site, but the entire 77-hectare waterfront district.
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Journalists were unable to see passengers disembarking from the North Korean-flagged vessel Mangyongbong at Vladivostok because Russian officials kept them away from the quayside, citing unspecified security reasons.
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Undergirding Quayside would be a "digital layer" with sensors tracking, monitoring and capturing everything from how park benches are used to levels of noise to water use by lavatories.
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According to Waterfront Toronto, establishing an IDEA District would be "premature" and Sidewalk Labs being the lead developer in Quayside does not conform to previous agreements between the organizations.
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For Quayside, Sidewalk Labs plans to fill the community with a diversity of sensors and cameras to collect information about pedestrian and vehicle flows, pollution, and the condition of infrastructure.
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Hundreds of enthusiasts join Breton dances on the quayside, but as usual most of the 0003,000-or so yachts, catamarans, day-sailers and motor-cruisers remain tied to the pontoons.
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First, however, Sidewalk Labs is planning pilot projects across Toronto this summer to test some of the technologies it hopes to employ at Quayside; this is partly to reassure residents.
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At the same time, Sidewalk Labs' data-collection dreams can only be fully realized if Quayside occupants play along—meaning those uncomfortable with 24/7 sensor-driven surveillance might abstain.
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The new deal, released Tuesday, solidifies Sidewalk Labs' $50-million investment to forge a final agreement to build "Sidewalk Toronto" on Quayside, a 12-acre plot of land on Toronto's waterfront.
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According to witness testimony provided to CNN by former residents, the Chagosians were herded into the hold of two cargo ships, then dumped on the quayside in Mauritius or the Seychelles.
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All of the above ideas are not things specific to the long-term plan to develop the 12-acre piece of land begin called Quayside on a section of Toronto's Port Lands.
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Sidewalk Labs is working in partnership with Waterfront Toronto, an agency representing the federal, provincial and municipal governments that is responsible for developing the area, on a $50m project to overhaul Quayside.
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While the initial competition that the company won in 2017 was limited to the Quayside district, the company later asked for a 190-acre swath of the adjacent Toronto Port Lands neighborhood.
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The smart city proposal indicates that the Quayside would emit 85% fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to downtown Toronto, with the full-scale development called the IDEA District at 1.33% fewer emissions.
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SUSTAINABILITY: The smart city proposal indicates that the Quayside would emit 85% fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to downtown Toronto, with the full-scale development called the IDEA District at 1.33% fewer emissions.
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Waiting at the quayside for news of the family of her 20-year-old daughter who took the ill-fated ferry, one distraught mother criticized the disorganized nature of the initial rescue effort.
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The idea is that Sidewalk Labs would lead development in Quayside first, and then nearby Villiers West, and then take a backseat role as the development expands to the rest of the district.
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To its supporters, Quayside promises to advance both urban design and Canada's tech community, much of which is now based between Toronto and the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo to its west.
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Here are some facts on Sidewalk Toronto: The Quayside development is said to occupy 24.3 acres, the Villiers West taking up 244 acres, and the rest of the IDEA District at 2000 acres.
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The armored train carrying Kim — on his first official visit to Russia — pulled into the quayside station in Vladivostok, on the Pacific Ocean, a few hours after crossing from North Korea into Russia.
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Sidewalk Labs said in a statement it plans a C$900 million ($682.54 million) equity investment to support the C$3.9 billion project for "real estate and advanced systems" in Quayside and Villiers West.
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Sidewalk Labs said the decision and voting will take place in the fall and winter of 2019/2020, and construction can begin on the Quayside before 2022, if the project receives sufficient public support.
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"The new technologies that emerge from the Quayside have the potential to improve city living — making housing more affordable and public transit more convenient for Canadians and their families," Trudeau said in a statement.
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Here are some facts on Sidewalk Toronto: SIZE: The Quayside development is said to occupy 24.3 acres, the Villiers West taking up 244 acres, and the rest of the IDEA District at 2000 acres.
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"The Best Western Sevastopol Hotel", a Soviet-era building on the quayside in the port of Sevastopol was one of the few visible signs of an international business presence left since the 2014 annexation.
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Sidewalk Labs said in a statement it plans a C$900 million ($13 million) equity investment to support the C$3.9 billion project for "real estate and advanced systems" in Quayside and Villiers West.
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He said 15 vessels were at the quayside and another 26 in the harbour, of which 15 were waiting to unload and 11 waiting to load, with cargoes of oil, LNG, chemicals and products.
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Smart cities such as Quayside aim to tackle the issue of spikes in demand for water and power at certain times of the day, said Michael Sutherland, the Toronto-based director of urban solutions for Hatch.
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A lack of confidence or clarity about how Quayside data would be protected and managed has led to a series of high-profile resignations by privacy advisers tied to both Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs itself.
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In Dikili, a few dozen police and immigration officials waited outside a small white tent on the quayside as the returned migrants disembarked one by one, before being photographed and having their fingerprints taken behind security screening.
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A few dozen police and immigration officials waited outside a small white tent on the quayside at Dikili as the returned migrants disembarked one by one, before being photographed and having their fingerprints taken behind security screening.
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In the early evening the Hau river, a broad Mekong distributary, has taken on the same blue-grey cast as the sky, reflecting rows of quayside lamps as it flows into the distance, reaching for the sea.
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DATA-GATHERING DEVICE REGISTRY Seattle maintains a master list of surveillance technology used by the city, but Sidewalk would take that a step farther and create a public map of sensors and data-collection devices in Quayside.
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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs unit, which is developing new technologies for use in "smart cities," said it would invest $50 million in the initial planning and testing phase of the project, which will create a new neighborhood called Quayside.
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In Toronto, for example, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, attracted considerable publicity when it was selected last year to help create a smart neighborhood of sorts in a waterfront district called Quayside.
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The Quayside project will span 12 acres of Toronto and, while still in the consulting stages, is shaping up to be a sensor-laden information smorgasbord for Sidewalk Labs and any other company collecting data in the area.
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In June 2019, after nearly two years of brainstorming, Sidewalk Labs released a 1,500 page master plan describing not only a 12-acre waterfront neighborhood, Quayside, but also a 350-acre district made up of many high-tech neighborhoods.
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Considering Quayside's focus on tech-friendly denizens, and the fact Google has said it plans to move its Canadian HQ to Quayside, the information vacuum has made it easy to imagine what this development might become: a tech brotopia.
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As Raoul Bunschoten, an influential smart city architect and urban planner based in Berlin, told me in a transatlantic phone interview, Quayside may be the first of its kind, but it won't be the last infrastructure project built by big tech.
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In February, the public was largely blindsided—and perturbed—by Toronto Star reporting based on internal Sidewalk Labs documents that indicated the company had designs on lands beyond the 12-acre Quayside plot that are the focus of the project.
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When reached for comment, spokespeople for both Waterfront Toronto and federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities François Philippe-Champagne—both named in the CCLA's lawsuit—emphasized that a final proposal for Quayside has not yet been submitted by Sidewalk Labs.
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"Though that question is settled, the question of whether other companies involved in the Quayside project would be required to do so is unlikely to be worked out soon, and may be out of Sidewalk Labs' hands," the Sidewalk Labs statement read.
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The four-year old company, which aimed to create high-tech urbanization, has faced steep criticism from citizen groups and privacy advocates since it was selected as the funder and developer of the Toronto-based Quayside area a year and a half ago.
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On one hand, the 12-acre project in Toronto's Quayside district promised to be a proving ground for the latest thinking in sustainable design and technology integration into urban planning led by a subsidiary of one of the world's most innovative technology companies.
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IZMIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Strolling down the quayside in Izmir, a liberal bastion on Turkey's Aegean Coast, Kubilay Mutlu and his Street Orchestra sing of "the naked emperor" and the collapse of sultanates in a bid to rally "no" voters ahead of Sunday's historic referendum.
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QUAYSIDE, an area of flood-prone land stretching for 12 acres (4.8 hectares) on Toronto's eastern waterfront, is home to a vast, pothole-filled parking lot, low-slung buildings and huge soyabean silos—a crumbling vestige of the area's bygone days as an industrial port.
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For example, Sidewalk Labs is advocating for new mass transit in Toronto (which it may help to fund) to make getting to Quayside easier, a new public administrator for the IDEA District, and modified legal regulations for the district to implement some of its plans.
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After spamming the spell in battle, he'd collect a bunch of experience and sleep at the Quayside Cradle hotel, a location that's in the corner of the map and would take a long ass time to make your way to, for a 2X leveling boost.
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While there were some indications that the company has taken public criticism into account — the plan now emphasizes affordable housing and the use of Canadian technology partners — the agency set up to oversee the redevelopment cited several concerns about its initial phase, known as Quayside.
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The ethos he brings to Quayside is that positive social change—in the form, say, of electrified vehicles that help fight climate change—can also be profitable: "You're not trying to push the boulder up the hill, you've got capitalism at your back," he explained.
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The recently signed USMCA trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the US contained provisions that severely restrict Canada's ability to make rules around where data should be stored, possibly making the very idea that Toronto would ask that Quayside data be stored locally a non-starter.
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On Wednesday, the City of Toronto and Sidewalk Labs — which is the urban innovation arm of Google's parent company Alphabet — announced a partnership to radically re-imagine 800 acres of the city's largely vacant, post-industrial Eastern Waterfront, and turn it into a tech-integrated neighborhood called Quayside.
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Between the two paintings, the show's organizers — the Frick's senior curator Susan Grace Galassi and curatorial fellow Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, with the independent curator and Turner specialist Ian Warrell — have installed an unfinished canvas, "The Harbor of Brest: The Quayside and Chateau," from the same series of ports.
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After winning a competition in 2017 to build a smart city development on a 12-acre plot of derelict publicly owned land called Quayside, Sidewalk offered a dazzling array of innovations intended not just to push Toronto into the future, but also to act as a test bed and a model for similar developments worldwide.
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That's obviously an ambitious project, but some of the groundwork is already being laid: Alphabet's Google will be the flagship tenant for the new neighbourhood, anchoring the easter waterfront, to be called "Quayside," and Sidewalk Labs has committed $50 million to kick off pilot testing and planning in partnership with the City of Toronto.
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