https://nextcity.org/features/google-sidewalk-labs-what-makes-a-city-detroit-to… Created Tue, 01/11/2022 - 01:54 Updated Tue, 01/11/2022 - 01:54 Before Sidewalk Labs targeted Toronto for its "smart city" project, it found 1,307 acres of land near downtown Detroit where its team believed they could carry out their utopian vision. There was just one problem.