System: Features Lighting and Jesse Shapins

system: Jesse Shapins of Sidewalk Labs displays a paving system that features lighting, selective heating and porous slabs designed to soak up water into a storm water management system, according to The Toronto Star. Tijana Martin / THE CANADIAN PRESS Sidewalk, backed by Google parent company Alphabet Inc., was showing off projects for the planned Quayside district, a test zone for urban tech on a 12-acre piece of land where Queens Quay E. meets Lake Shore Blvd. I like the fact that they're willing to be transparent they're putting more and more ideas out there, knowing fairly well they will be criticized, said Mohsin Bin Latheef, an engineer who lives in the waterfront neighbourhood where Sidewalk Labs' offices are located. The projects included a building raincoat described as an adjustable plastic film awning attached to a building that can extend to protect the sidewalk from the elements. The open house came as the company faces criticism over its hopes to lay claim to a cut of the city's developer fees and property taxes in exchange for funding a light-rail transit line and underground infrastructure in a larger swath of the Port Lands. Another is a hexagonal paving system, including heated slabs to melt the snow and reduce the need for plowing and salting. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.