This document discusses the concept of a smart city and how connecting citizens to information through technology could change the world. It describes how smart cities aim to improve efficiency by deploying applications that allow buildings, places and citizens to share and interact with information. Issues facing modern cities are discussed, such as high population densities straining resources and the need to reduce costs. The document also explores what a smart city is, how information and communication technologies can help create one, and provides examples of potential smart city applications and initiatives.

1. The Future City
Will connecting people to
Information change the
world?
Presented by Masaki Ozawa
27/06/2012

2. CQ: comprehensive
• How can we make our lives more
smarter?

3. DQ1: experience
• Have you ever used Information and
Communication applications? Such
as…

7. DQ2: knowledge
• Do you know any current issues our
cities have?

8. DQ3: opinion
Making our city smarter by deploying
information applications and connecting
citizens and places.
• Are you for or against?
• And why?

9. Key Words
• Smart City
• ICT
• deploy (v.)
• distribute (v.)
• interact (v.)
• efficiency (n.)

10. What’s current issues
our cities have?
•SOURCE 1:
•Cities Need Smart Thinking. By Felicia
Jackson, on 7 June 2012. Raconteur
Media.
•http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/
raconteur-media/cities-need-smart-
thinkin_b_1578090.html

11. Contain 50 percent of world’s
population and emit 70 percent of
greenhouse gas
Two issues, rack of resources and
need of reducing costs
Efficiency!!!!!!!!
Ex. Traffic in Los Angles
Make citizens and places interacted
Deploy smart apps
Smart city is one which shares info
to improve efficiency by connecting
buildings, places, and citizens

12. What’s Smart City ?
is a next-generation model of urban
city that is managed only renewable
powers distributed and connected to
buildings, homes and cars through
smart grids to use energy maximally
efficient.
•SOURCE 2:
•‘Japan creating “smart city” of the future’. San
Francisco Chronicle. By Tomoko A. Hosaka,

14. What’s ICT?
Information and Communication
Technology
•SOURCE 3:
•Smart cities get their own operating system. By Katia
Moskvitch, on 30 September 2011.BBC News. http://
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15109403
•SOURCE 4:
•Researchers developing ‘smart city’ search engine. By
Laura Hopperton, on 14 June 2012

15. The concept of ‘the urban OS’.
monitors everything happened in the
city
is like nervous system.
smartphone apps to support the OS.
Search engine called ’SMART’
Search engine for multimedia environment
generated
content
Ex. at a fire accident
Efficiency!!!!!!!!!!!!

16. One amazing landscape of
the future cities…
‘Sketches of the Meta-City.’ By
Frog.
http://
designmind.frogdesign.com/
articles/sketches-of-the-

17. Images’ attributions
• Image1
– Google Map: https://maps.google.co.jp/
• Image2
– Navitime: http://www.navitime.co.jp/
• Image3
– Weather News: http://p.tl/i99e
• Image4
– ’Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP)’.By Hideaki
Inagaki, August 11, 2010. :http://goo.gl/WkSHi