The document discusses the key aspects of cities of the future: 1) Cities will be greener and more eco-friendly with reduced emissions, increased green spaces like rooftop gardens, and renewable energy sources like solar power. 2) 3D printing will be widely used, reducing waste and costs while making resources more accessible. 3) Economies will grow through advanced technology, international trade, investments, and specialized labor. 4) Transportation will include high-speed trains, electric vehicles, small personal vehicles, and possibly flying cars. 5) Communications and technology will be advanced, with faster internet, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, and technologies to modify dreams.

1. The City of the Future
El Bacha Akram

2. “The best thing about the
future is that it comes only
one day at a time”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

3. The city of the future - Green and Eco-friendly
Environment
• Reduced CO2 emissions through eco-friendly cars and factories’ gas filters
• Increased plantation of trees on buildings’ tops and balconies
• Development of green electricity through solar power, reducing greenhouse gas emissions
and chemical fuel pollution
• Green acting as a factor for improving health status, not only as decoration
• New projects for green parks as public places
• Social responsibility and commitment through increased awareness
of facts and benefits
• Amplified Green environment orientation

4. The city of the future – 3D Printing
3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from
a digital model
• Reduced waste of raw materials
• Less energy consumption
• Increased availability of resources
• Costs’ cutting
• Accessibility to everyone
• Eco-friendly use free of pollution

5. The city of the future – Economic Growth
• Advanced technology
• New available resources
• Specialization and division of labor
• More capital goods
• Stronger currencies
• Increased foreign direct investments
• Increased trades with imports and exports

6. The city of the future – Transportation
• Implementation of Air-propelled train
• Increased fabrication of hybrid cars; propelled by
gas or electricity
• Emergence of the PRT vehicles; small vehicle
technologies designed to carry four or less
passengers on an elevated guideway, or at
ground level, with off-line stations
• Development of flying cars

7. The city of the future – Communications & High-Tech
• Increased broadband speed
• Reduction in digital divide
• Expansion of networks and Internet
• Emergence of the “augmented reality” applications; allowing to view the world through a
technological overlay and get information about what is being seen
• Expansion of touch screens to bathroom mirrors, tables, living-room windows…
• Appearance of the brain computers; capable of reading one’s thoughts
• Development of “Dream Modification”; capable of altering dreams so to set good moods
when waking up

8. Conclusion
The city of the future should have;
• A high quality of life, supporting the health and wellbeing of its inhabitants
• Resilience to the impacts of climate change
• An attractive built and natural environments
A city’s economic, social and environmental progress will be ever more closely related to
its technological progress.
Finally we will be able to speak of Smart and Green Cities