page_title: Sidewalk Labs
section_title: Project Sidewalk
hierarchical_section_title: Sidewalk Labs / Projects / Project Sidewalk
caption_attribution_description: English: Sidewalk Labs Toronto office - address: 307 Lake Shore Blvd E, Toronto, ON M5A 1C1
context_page_description: Sidewalk Labs is Alphabet Inc.'s urban innovation organization. Its goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions, and tackle issues such as cost of living, efficient transportation and energy usage.
  It is headed by Daniel L. Doctoroff, former deputy mayor of New York City for economic development and former chief executive of Bloomberg L.P. Other members include Craig Nevill-Manning, co-founder of Google's New York office and inventor of Froogle.
context_section_description: In April 2016, The Information reported that Sidewalk intended to create a new city in the United States to test design ideas prior to real world implementation. Sidewalk did not confirm that report, but has said it had engaged in thought experiments about what it could be like to develop a community "from the internet up."
  In October 2017, Sidewalk Labs announced plans to develop Quayside, a 12-acre (4.9 ha) neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in response to a competition organized by Waterfront Toronto. Branded as Sidewalk Toronto, the project aims to become "a testbed for emerging technologies, materials and processes" to address issues such as sustainability, accessibility, inclusiveness and prosperity in urban communities. The initiative is also envisioned to be scaled up across Toronto's Port Lands, an 800-acre (320 ha) area that is one of the largest areas of underdeveloped urban land in North America.
  In 2019, Sidewalk Labs said it had consulted thousands of Torontonians for its development plans. However, representatives of Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel (DSAP) said that Sidewalk Labs's projects contained too much "tech for tech's sake." In May 2020, the project was abandoned due to the economic uncertainty posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
caption: Sidewalk Labs Toronto office's demo
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