As Urban living advances to the next level, evolutionary forces dictate adoption of technology and break most accepted social barriers

1. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
Cities of tomorrow will be built by forces of both
evolutionary and disruptive forces

2. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
Prominent Expected ChangesProminent Expected Changes
✔Borderless towns and cities with shared
administration, resources and leaders
✔Concept of Global Citizens
✔Impact of Data Revolution and ubiquitous
digitalization
✔Work from anywhere option for large corporations
which have global workforce

3. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
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Borderless towns and cities with shared administration,Borderless towns and cities with shared administration,
resources and leadersresources and leaders
➢Instead of ordinary cities , Smart City Clusters with specified
dynamic population limits based on resource limits, pollution levels
and revenue generation status will be formed
➢An existing concept of city twinning - Sister Cities is similar but
new clusters will be built on more scientific rationale to pair the
cities

4. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
Salient Features of Smart City ClustersSalient Features of Smart City Clusters
➢ City clusters formed on the basis of most optimum combination of resources
across member cities, for example, group an energy surplus city with one which
is highly industrialized with above average energy demands. Another group
could be a city with high crime rate and another with strong police
administration
➢ Support maximum population of people who can contribute the most to the
cluster revenue and effectively utilize the resources to generate individual
incomes
➢ Ensure that no cluster has extremes of revenue disparity while keeping in mind
the demographic profile of the region
➢ Clusters need not be co-located; the only requirement is inter- cluster
communication is as seamless as possible
➢ Continuous and automated monitoring of each cluster’s human population,
wildlife cover, air and water pollution levels, crime rates, revenue generation
and natural disaster threat levels to determine mitigation steps proactively

5. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
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Concept of Global CitizensConcept of Global Citizens
➢Humans born in a nation but become citizens of the world
➢Individual citizens to be affiliated with more than one nation, while keeping their
ethic/birth citizenship intact
➢Countries develop special citizenship drives where individuals from other nations can
become equal partners in the country’s growth irrespective of their geographical
presence. In return, grant relaxed entry norms for the citizen to freely into the new
country and choose to integrate within it if required

6. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
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Rise of the Virtual WorkforceRise of the Virtual Workforce
➢The future of work is virtual. Physical presence of an employee in an office will no
longer be seen as mandatory
➢Collaboration at work will take the form of shared virtual, access anywhere platforms
which can be activated-activated on demand
➢Permanent roles will give way to less structured transaction based contract jobs with
staggered work times and flexible delivery schedules

7. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
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Automation is the keyAutomation is the key
➢Smaller organizations will play the role of incubators while large organization will acquire
them from time to time based on market strategy and funds availability
➢New age digital economy will employ robots and automation to reduce production errors,
costs and reliance on human labour
➢Service aggregators will become the prime mode of retail consumption. Service models will
become regularized with packages covering domestic, industrial and ad-hoc requests under
different rates
➢Today’s retail stores and malls will turn majorly into urban amusement hubs and virtual
reality centres will replace multiplexes. Focus will shift from sales to marketing- product and
service launches will be part of the mall experience. The erstwhile shopkeeper, retail shop
assistant and waiter will give way to robots or virtually controlled store menus with direct
table delivery via conduits from the kitchen

8. Urban Edge – Cityscape of the Future
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Impact of Data Revolution and ubiquitous digitalizationImpact of Data Revolution and ubiquitous digitalization
➢Individuals will be tracked by their consumption footprints in every part of the world. Most non-
personal but location specific data for an individual will become a means to track the person
➢Massive amounts of data analytics capabilities will enable large organizations and governments to
effectively monitor and regulate much of the known world
➢Data will become a commodity. Information collected anywhere will not be in a silo. It will be
pass via complex algorithms which will determine its relevance to any known function and will use
it to enhance its knowledge
➢Sensors, trackers and satellite based navigation will make daily interactions recordable and
reproducible. Data collection will increase exponentially with the rise of connected devices and
advanced device capabilities