Urban innovations company Sidewalk Labs and the Canadian government announced a partnership Tuesday to develop 750 acres along Toronto’s waterfront into what they envision as a high-tech living laboratory for solving urban problems. It would be the largest urban redevelopment project in North America.

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Quayside will be the "test bed" in new development technologies.

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The chosen Toronto location is the same one that was identified as a possible Amazon HQ2, it is not yet known how that will effect their running.

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Smart City pushback has not gone unnoticed, with critiques of the data involved and how much control over residents' lives the parent companies may have.

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