IE application express yourself section question L, How do you envision the city of the future?

1. HOW DO YOU ENVISION
THE CITY OF THE
FUTURE?
By Bassel Shorbaji

2. A SMART CITY
• An urban area with an integration of ICT
and network devices
• Uses electronic sensors to collect data and
information
• Digital management of assets and
resources
• These resources include traffic, transport,
power plants, waste, law enforcement,
health etc.
• Examples of smart Cities are Barcelona in
Spain and Singapore

3. CHARACTERISTICS
• Use of ICT in managing resources for
sustained development
• Effective engagement between government
and community
• Learning, adapting, and innovating to
improve city intelligence
• Efficient usage of physical infrastructure and
resources
• Integration of human intelligence, collective
intelligence, and artificial intelligence

4. PURPOSE
• Ultra-efficient housing for the growing
population
• Better management of water since there is
expected water scarcity issue in the future
• Efficient usage of energy, given the rising
energy needs using smart meters, Green
buildings among others
• Efficient waste management, such as
waste conversion to energy
• Enhance mobility through smart parking,
multi-modal transport, intelligent traffic
management

5. BUILDING A SMART CITY
• In order to build a smart city, there is a need
to contextualize the purpose and goals of
building a smart city
• City planners and strategist need to get and
use available data including income,
burglaries, traffic, fires, illnesses, and
parking citations that give valuable insights
• Integrate all element of an urban landscape
especially the human component
• Planners also need to benchmark and
borrow from other cities best practices that
have worked efficiently

6. • Enhance efficiency, quality, and
performance of urban services such as
waste, traffic and telecommunication
• Reduces costs and resource usage , such
as energy, oil, electricity and water
• Applications designed for managing urban
flows and allowing real time responses
• Enhanced security, surveillance,
identification, and instant response
BENEFITS

7. DRAWBACKS
• The project is expensive since it is capital
intensive to build a smart city
• There is a possibility to the failure to
eliminate but sophisticate corruption
• It can increase the gap between poor and
rich in community
• It increases vulnerabilities from “connected
world”
• Increased surveillance and privacy issues

8. PERSONAL OPINION
• Smart cities will be a necessity in future to
go in pace with technology
• There will be digitalized way of life with
extraordinary and innovative technology
• Foreseen cities will be able to manage
resources efficiently
• Even though there are advantages, there is
high risks to consider, especially security of
core systems