Reviewing examples of planned Smart Cities in the US. Explaining the four levels /types of Smart Cities. Offering some key realizations pertaining to Smart Cities.

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Smart Cities
Part 3

2. What Is Exciting In America?
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NYC

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San Antonio is considered as having the best plans in TX for becoming a Smart City

5. Denver, working
with Panasonic,
has great plans
for the future
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Surge Cities like Austin and Frisco have a great opportunity in being ranked high on the Smart City List

7. Bill Gates buys 25,000 acres of Arizona desert
to build a Smart City • November 13, 2017
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Not the actual plan

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Another proposed plan for Bill
Gates’ Smart City.
Simple but Smart.

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People are wondering how
is Bill going to convert this
site in Belmont, AZ into a
Smart City!

10. Cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns has revealed plans to
develop a large parcel of Nevada's desert into a Smart City
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https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/06/blockchain-innovation-park-smart-city-nevada-jeffrey-berns/
Berns, who made a fortune selling cryptocurrency, plans to transform the 67,000-acre (27,113-hectare) plot in Nevada
after paying reportedly paying $170 million for the land.

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Las Vegas Valley may get its own
$7.5 billion smart city

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17. Smart Cities Today Fit In
Four Categories

18. Smart City
Options
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Smart City 1.0
Implementing Smart
Technologies in a haphazard
way!
Tactical/Opportunistic
Mentality
Smart City 2.0
Strategic Approach - having a
Vision and addressing the Big
Picture
Smart City 3.0
Connected with other
neighboring and distant
Smart Cities
Smart Metroplex
Smart County, Region
Smart State
Smart Country
Better Term:
Cognitive City
or Community
Bottom-Up Approach
Top-Down Approach
Holistic Approach
However, there is a 4th
option that will be
introduced by the end of
this Century!

19. Four Key Realizations
1. Not 1,000, but not even one billion sensors and
smart poles make a city “Smart”
• Efficiency is only a small subset of “Smart”. It’s the
“magnets”, services, and QoL that make a city “Smart”
2. It’s NOT smart to delegate the implementation of
“Smart City” initiatives to CIOs. Cities need to
assign a new department that has “true” cross-
functional responsibility!
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20. Four Key Realizations (cont’d)
3. Smart City initiatives will take decades to complete.
Smart Cities is not a project. It is a long-lasting
program similar to building the nation’s Interstate
Highway System
• The construction of the highway system was authorized by the Federal Aid
Highway Act of 1956. Today (74 years later) the highway system is about
85% complete. No definite deadline!
4. There is NO one plan that fits all cities! Each city is
different (different needs, wants, dreams, aspirations …)
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21. Copenhagen’s Goal: Best Green and Eco-
friendliest City in Europe By 2030
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The Top-Down
Approach
starts with a
Master Plan or
Strategy

22. The Holistic Approach For Smart Cities:
Co-Creating The Future
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People
Culture
All Other
Magnets
Services &
Programs
Technical
Infrastructure
Ecosystems
and Their
Infrastructure
Vision
Of The Future
Educate Citizens

23. Key Realization: No City Is An Island
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Dallas, Ft. Worth, Arlington,
Frisco, McKinney, Allen,
Plano, Addison, etc. are NOT
standalone entities.
ADVICE:
Learn to cooperate
and pool your money
and resources

24. The 4th Option: Self-Managed Smart City
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Believe it or not, scientist are already working on this, By the end of this century it will become a reality

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