We need good cities, not just smart cities
“There is a lot of focus on the concept of ‘Smart Cities’ at the moment. The capacity for the Internet of Things (IoT) to power just about anything in a community, from the streetlights to the waste bins right through to cars and the roads themselves, and provide data in real time, means that we now have an unprecedented capacity to make our cities run with greater efficiency and productivity than ever before.
However, too often the benefits of Smart Cities are expected to be self-evident. The mistaken belief is that simply building IoT-based applications for a city is sufficient to improve a citizen’s quality of life. In our drive towards hyper-connected and ultra-efficient cities, there’s a real need to make sure that, rather than just building IoT into a community for the sake of it, we’re working towards each component of a smart city having real and measurable citizen outcomes.
Perhaps we should be thinking about these things in terms of building Good Cities, rather than Smart Cities…”
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We need good cities not just smart cities
Good versus smart cities: these are not mutually exclusive concepts, let us embrace green technology and societies of equality. I would argue that if anything they complement one another, certainly from the prospective of community & sustained progress.
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