L. How do you envision the city of the future?

1. Hinar Khaled Abdulhafez
IE Business School Admission

2. • Accelerating Urbanization
• Tremendous Population Growth
• Rise of Mega-cities and Mega-regions
• Natural resources becoming scarce
• Speedy changes in age and class
• Increasing gap between the rich and the poor

3.  What is the Smart City?
 An industrialized urban area that aims to
create sustainable economic
developments as well as excellent quality
life
Smart Cities are not only about developing
technologies, however they should be
focusing on ways to sustain themselves
for the future.
 Studies show that by 2050, 70% of the
world would be living in urban areas.
 In order to have developed future
cities, we need to think and act now to
find ways to sustain our cities,
because our future depends on our
decisions today.

4. THROUGH:
 Creating energy efficient
neighborhoods
 Developing green urbanism
 Developing civic and
community designs for the
city to help organize it based
on human scale, diversity,
and preservation
 Supporting the human,
cultural, economic, and social
restoration and recovery by
creating neighborhood
housing redevelopments

5.  All citizens should undergo
major changes in customs
and habits. They should be
willing to adapt to an
ambiguous future.
 We will need to develop new
technologies
 Promote more recycling to
create progressive
interactions between the
cities and the natural
environment
 Create better connections
and stronger communications
between cities.
Create more open space
between people to allow them
to exchange ideas and
become part of a collective

6.  Motivations for more innovations in governments
 A rise in internationalization of companies
 Urban entrepreneurship through developing new
companies in the market
 Better environmental quality, more jobs, greater wealth,
and an overall improved quality of life.

7.  Allow the citizens to contribute
in more governmental decisions
through developing solutions
 Improve the citizens’ quality of
life through the various
technological innovations.
 Have more greener areas, and
renewable energy will be
promoted
 More efficient management of
public transport and pollution.
This will lead to more
sustainability.

8. THANK YOU