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Alphabet's urban-innovation subsidiary (2015–2021). It set out to redesign the city from the internet up — its flagship Quayside project in Toronto proposed a sensor-laced, data-driven waterfront neighbourhood. The project collapsed under privacy backlash and the question it never answered: who owns the data a city collects about the people living in it. A defining cautionary tale for the smart-city dream.
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