One exceptional, fully source-checked project singled out each week. Once chosen an entry keeps the mark permanently, so the gallery is a growing collection rather than a rotating slot.
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Each week one entry is picked out as the Landmark of the Week — not the newest and not the largest, but the one that teaches the most about how these systems actually behave. It appears on the front page for its week and keeps the mark afterwards: the gallery is permanent, so nothing that has earned it drops off later.
The selection is editorial, and the pattern is visible in what gets chosen. The current landmark, the Busan–Gimhae light rail, is a line whose trains have run exactly as designed since 2011 — it is the ridership forecast underneath the contract that failed, and two city budgets have been paying for that ever since. A landmark is usually a project where the interesting part is not the technology.
Only fully source-checked entries are eligible, and the mark says nothing beyond that about how well the project went: several landmarks are recorded as failures.
Added 2026-08-25 · Part of the growing Smart City Glossary