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I’m looking for examples of the most cutting edge uses of technology in smart cities. What’s your thinking on the future of smart cities? If you were doing research on the future of cities, what would you focus on?
“Smart City” today is a term that has lost its meaning. The graphic below shows the state of the art today, and suggests a growth path that moves far beyond the current practice of seeking to put “smart” information technology on top of “dumb” industrial-era artifacts.
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To be truly smart, a city must combine a long-term process for eradicating the 50% waste that is inherent in all its domains from agriculture to energy to health to housing to security to water; and it must begin the equally long-term process of becoming citizen-centric instead of corporate-contract centric — this must include a re-design of fundamentals such as citizen-centric housing, citizen-centric transport, and citizen-centric employment options.
While the city is central the industrial era and metropolises are growing by orders of magnitude, the need to make cities adaptive and resilient is matched by the need to bring low-cost scalable interoperable Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) to the five billion poor, most of whom live in rural areas.
See Especially:
European Smart Cities (Technische Universitat Wien)
Smart Cities of the North Sea Region
Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — a Nordic Manifesto
Owl: “Smart Grid” is NSA on Steroids, Expensive, Instrusive, & A Major Health Hazard
Robert Steele: Future-Proofing the City
See Also:
2008: Creating a Smart Nation (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Berto Jongman: WIRED on Right Way to Build Smart Cities
Graphic: Smart Nation Through Open Everything – Intel21 “Stack”
Graphic: The Smart Grid — Is This Also the New Spy Grid?
Jean Lievens: fab labs, open innovation and smart cities
Jean Lievens: Rob Kitchin on Data-Driven Urbanism — Not So Smart, Serving Special Interests
Jean Lievens: Smart Cities Are Not Smart If They Just Connect to the Internet
Jean Lievens: Warren Karlenzig: Collective Intelligence–Cities as Global Intelligence Platform
Koko: Cities are Jungles – Fruit Should Grow in Jungles
Koko: IBM Smart City and Portland OR Interactive Plan
Patrick Meier: 100 Resilient Cities — Data Science and Tactical Resilience
Rick Robinson: 6 Inconvenient Truths About Smart Cities
Rick Robinson: Building Cities with Open Source Everything
Rick Robinson: Smart Cities 101
Rick Robinson: Why Smart Cities Are Not Smart
SchwartzReport: Parks Make Us Smarter
SmartPlanet: Design of Cities Matters — Cuts Emissions!
SmartPlanet: On Demand Public Transit App in Helsinki
SmartPlanet: Smart Building Blocks, Smart Cities
SmartPlanet: Urban beekeeping keeps cities healthy
Ty Simpson: India All In On Smart Cities
Yoda: Dubai – City of Gold in Four Dimensions?