Open data
The whole published atlas — 1167 projects, 265 cities, 130 countries — as plain JSON, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Updated with every editorial batch.
Every entry links the public sources it rests on and carries an evidence grade. The research and summaries are AI-assisted; that does not imply a line-by-line human fact-check. The first ten Evidence Passports go further: stable claims, structured source dossiers, explicit nulls and permanent hashed revisions under the Evidence Constitution.
Each entry also carries a grade for the strongest source behind it. The State of the Evidence counts those grades across the whole corpus — a standing answer to how much of the smart-city record anyone outside the projects has actually examined, computed from the same files you can download here.
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License
All data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): use it, remix it, build on it — commercially too — as long as you credit the source. A line like this is perfect:
Data: 1001 Smart Cities (1001smartcities.org), CC BY 4.0.
Cite this atlas
1001 Smart Cities (2026). The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/ (accessed 2026-09-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
Or in BibTeX:
@misc{1001smartcities,
author = {{1001 Smart Cities}},
title = {1001 Smart Cities --- The Smart City Atlas},
year = {2026},
url = {https://1001smartcities.org/},
note = {Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Accessed 2026-09-02.}
}
Every project page also has its own “📎 Cite this project” block with a ready-made reference for that single entry.
Corrections
Spotted an error? Use the contribute form (also linked as “🚩 Report an error” on every project page). Accepted passport corrections append a new revision; the previous version and its hash remain public. The RSS feed announces new cities and insights as they publish.