1001 Smart Cities

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The Downtown Smart City Corridor and the Expansion Nobody Was Chosen to Build

Revision 2026-08-19-baseline · effective 2026-08-19

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-20-source-dates →

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 7 claims and 6 source dossiers.

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  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-8528e036525f939e quantitative
The $15.7 million public-private partnership was officially signed in June 2015
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
RCR Wireless gives the figure and the date verbatim: the $15.7 million public-private partnership was officially signed in June 2015.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. RCR Wireless News — Kansas City kicks off smart city program with Sprint, Cisco
Claim 2 clm-7d643d96180d35fe quantitative
free outdoor wifi in more than 50 square blocks in downtown Kansas City, a light sensory network of 125 smart streetlights, and 25 interactive kiosks at KC Streetcar platforms and locations around downtown, along the 2.2-mile downtown streetcar line
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
RCR Wireless and the launch release agree on all four figures: more than 50 square blocks of free outdoor Wi-Fi, 125 smart streetlights, 25 interactive kiosks at streetcar platforms and downtown locations, along the 2.2-mile line. The city has since described the coverage as 54 blocks.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. RCR Wireless News — Kansas City kicks off smart city program with Sprint, Cisco
  2. PR Newswire — Kansas City Launches "Smart City" Initiative, in Collaboration with Cisco and Sprint
Claim 3 clm-dbcb25e422d5754c quantitative
The city put in $3.8 million over 10 years against nearly $12 million from Sprint and Cisco, which constructs, owns and manages the intelligent Wi-Fi network
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
RCR Wireless breaks the deal down as city $3.8 million over 10 years, Sprint approximately $7 million and Cisco approximately $5 million, nearly $12 million combined; the launch release states that Cisco and Sprint construct, own and manage the network.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. RCR Wireless News — Kansas City kicks off smart city program with Sprint, Cisco
  2. PR Newswire — Kansas City Launches "Smart City" Initiative, in Collaboration with Cisco and Sprint
Claim 4 clm-d6ea6f85f4d89ff7 quantitative
In June 2018 Kansas City tendered a far larger expansion reaching the east side, asking the private partner to invest at least a half-billion dollars long-term
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snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Government Technology dates the RFP to June 2018 and, in its east-side report, states the city wanted the private partner to invest at least a half-billion dollars long-term.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Government Technology — Kansas City, Mo., Closes Smart City RFP Without a Selection
  2. Government Technology — Bringing the Smart City Vision to Kansas City's Neglected East Side
Claim 5 clm-cf8d180f25a3c377 quantitative
It closed the tender in 2019 without selecting a business partner from the proposals it received, saying it first needed a smart city action plan to work out what kind of governance structure would best guide its implementation
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city's communications director is quoted saying it moved forward without selecting a business partner from the proposals received, and that it first needed to create a smart city action plan to determine what governance structure would best guide implementation.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Government Technology — Kansas City, Mo., Closes Smart City RFP Without a Selection
Claim 6 clm-2c786517bc16a075 descriptive
The innovation office was abolished later that year in favour of a twelve-member Emerging Technologies Board that meets quarterly
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
StateScoop reports the innovation office went away on the chief innovation officer's departure and that the role was eliminated in favour of a 12-member board appointed by a mayor who had been sceptical of smart-city projects.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. StateScoop — Kansas City, Missouri, lowers emphasis on 'smart city' projects
Claim 7 clm-3dc5265a2d171d86 quantitative
A local investigation found the kiosks reset to the home screen after 24 seconds and the city's own chief innovation officer, asked whether they did anything a smartphone could not, answered plainly that they did not
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Flatland's report records both: the kiosk resets itself to the home screen after 24 seconds, and Chief Innovation Officer Bob Bennett answered 'No, they do not' when asked whether the kiosks do anything a smartphone cannot.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Flatland — Searching for the 'Smart' in New Kiosks

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-19-baseline effective 2026-08-19 · created 2026-08-19

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
City of Kansas City, Missouri with Cisco, Sprint and Think Big Partners; governance since 2019 with the Emerging Technologies Board
Actor types
city-government, private
Funding model
ppp
Funding description
$15.7 million public-private partnership: $3.8 million from the city over ten years, nearly $12 million from Sprint and Cisco
Cost
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Ownership
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Exit conditions
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6 source dossiers

RCR Wireless News — Kansas City kicks off smart city program with Sprint, Cisco rcrwireless.com · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-665fc611b47126f9
Publisher
Name not classified · rcrwireless.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-19
Dossier created
2026-08-19
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
PR Newswire — Kansas City Launches "Smart City" Initiative, in Collaboration with Cisco and Sprint prnewswire.com · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-fb645cc5bf386b67
Publisher
Name not classified · prnewswire.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-19
Dossier created
2026-08-19
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No local capture recorded
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No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Government Technology — Kansas City, Mo., Closes Smart City RFP Without a Selection govtech.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-fa191af80054c57b
Publisher
Name not classified · govtech.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-08-19
Dossier created
2026-08-19
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
StateScoop — Kansas City, Missouri, lowers emphasis on 'smart city' projects statescoop.com · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-89d63b48905bb256
Publisher
Name not classified · statescoop.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-19
Dossier created
2026-08-19
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
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No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Flatland — Searching for the 'Smart' in New Kiosks flatlandkc.org · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-815b5382a8d627d4
Publisher
Name not classified · flatlandkc.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-19
Dossier created
2026-08-19
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Government Technology — Bringing the Smart City Vision to Kansas City's Neglected East Side govtech.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-278902de949facd7
Publisher
Name not classified · govtech.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-19
Dossier created
2026-08-19
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.