The document discusses how cities of the future will need to adapt to growing populations and limited resources by becoming "smart cities". It provides examples of existing smart cities like Songdo City in South Korea and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi that rely on sustainable energy and transportation. The document also discusses challenges of transforming existing cities and how smart investments can help cities accommodate rapid urbanization while reducing energy and waste.
At iomob we seek to transform urban mobility from its current fragmented state towards a decentralised internet of mobility marketplace. This white paper seeks to explore emerging trends and future directions towards more seamless access to public and private mobility services.
City changemaker - Istanbul + Mobility workshop - March 28th '15Ronald Lenz
CITY//CHANGEMAKER is a platform for urban innovation in emerging cities in the Mediterranean and Middle East region.
On March 28th we launched CITY//CHANGEMAKER in Istanbul. On a cloudy Saturday at 09:00 AM 30 people showed up on the doorstep of Istanbul’s first ever coworking space Yazane.
The question to solve: “How might we give Istanbul commuters the most convenient, affordable and greenest transport options through the use of smart technology?”
Smart transportation: Predict demand and optimize transportation capacity and assets. (1) Understanding and modeling a holistic view of demand, (2) Creating dynamic multimodal plans and models, (3) Modeling scenarios and better planning routes, schedules and maintenance, (4) Gaining deeper insights.
Presentation by Sir Mark Walport at the Foundation for Science and Technology discussion on 'Cities of the future – science, innovation and city management', June 2013
Download the full slide deck for free here: bit.ly/Future_of_Mobility
This is a presentation given by Aitor Somers, consultant at Duval Union Consulting and expert in mobility. This slide deck gives a more thorough insight on the symbiosis between the mobility of the future and other societal, demographical and economic changes on a holistic level.
At iomob we seek to transform urban mobility from its current fragmented state towards a decentralised internet of mobility marketplace. This white paper seeks to explore emerging trends and future directions towards more seamless access to public and private mobility services.
City changemaker - Istanbul + Mobility workshop - March 28th '15Ronald Lenz
CITY//CHANGEMAKER is a platform for urban innovation in emerging cities in the Mediterranean and Middle East region.
On March 28th we launched CITY//CHANGEMAKER in Istanbul. On a cloudy Saturday at 09:00 AM 30 people showed up on the doorstep of Istanbul’s first ever coworking space Yazane.
The question to solve: “How might we give Istanbul commuters the most convenient, affordable and greenest transport options through the use of smart technology?”
Smart transportation: Predict demand and optimize transportation capacity and assets. (1) Understanding and modeling a holistic view of demand, (2) Creating dynamic multimodal plans and models, (3) Modeling scenarios and better planning routes, schedules and maintenance, (4) Gaining deeper insights.
Presentation by Sir Mark Walport at the Foundation for Science and Technology discussion on 'Cities of the future – science, innovation and city management', June 2013
Download the full slide deck for free here: bit.ly/Future_of_Mobility
This is a presentation given by Aitor Somers, consultant at Duval Union Consulting and expert in mobility. This slide deck gives a more thorough insight on the symbiosis between the mobility of the future and other societal, demographical and economic changes on a holistic level.
The Future of Mobility - How Hyperloop, Boom Supersonic and Driverless Cars W...Antonio Auricchio
We are now on the verge of a new technological revolution of mobility. Transonic trains, supersonic airplanes and electric driverless cars will have the same impact on our modernity as their current old-fashioned versions had on our parents’. Mobility, or the lack of it, once again will decide which country, company or even person will drive the upcoming changes.
The aim of this Policy Brief is to raise awareness on the megatrends that are likely to transform the shape of our cities and the way we commute.
S13c16 chapter 16-facts and figures on urbanisation.Shivu P
Urbanization with all the amenities became the need for the affordable class of people. Urban slums are the people who lead the life in a bad condition where they do not have other ways to lead the life better than this, suffer a lot, acts like the reservoir of disease and spread the communicable diseases even to the affordable class of people. Traffic related issues, sanitation, transportation, domestic water supply, pollution are some of the major issues which will stick to the problem of urbanization. Now our leaders started solving these problems with fly over’s, metros, underground canal transportation, one way roads, pumping water from the rivers to the cities, identifying places to manage the waste, and so on. Do you think will these types of problems will solve by constructing more number of fly over’s?
Please understand, the solution for all these problems are not present in the urban area, but it is present in the rural area. People should stop migrating towards the urban areas, and that is possible only when the people who live in the village gets good income for their effort in their own village, good school for their children, better recreation facility in their own village and that is possible with model village - model nation plan. with model village and model nation people will stop migrating towards the urban areas and in fact those who have properties in their native village will move back to their village and thus the burden of urbanization will decrease. The leaders of the this world will understand this concept and will work in this way. Some of the facts and figures related to the urbanization are mentioned in this chapter.
EIP Water Action Group City Blueprints September 2013EIP Water
The City Blueprint for Water is a baseline assessment of the sustainability of water management in a city (or other dominantly urban region). The result allows a city to quickly understand how advanced it is in sustainable water management and enables it to compare its status with other leading cities.
This project is one of nine Action Groups selected by the European Commission as an initial EIP Water Action Group.
Sixteen cities/regions have participated so far (August 2013) and many others are being approached. This is an opportunity to take part in a new and innovative programme to help improve city-level water stewardship, in the spirit of smart and sustainable cities.
The basic output is a simple radar chart as shown in the example from Melbourne at the top of this page. The chart provides a quick visual representation of the city’s water stewardship status, and is a tool for easy comparison between cities. It covers 24 key water-related subject areas, such as water footprint, water scarcity, water quality, drinking water availability and wastewater management.
A City Blueprint is just the first step on a journey of communication and cooperation between cities. A key intention is to encourage cities to share their best practices with others, and for all to improve. A website will be developed to facilitate this. All cities are different. Some are advanced in a few or many subject areas. Some have much work to do. The aim is not to highlight failings, but instead to help a city identify areas of focus for improvement, and to learn from the best practices of others, as well as demonstrating and sharing their own best practices.
Эрик Дроми, футурист / Aric Dromi, futurologist
30 июня, 13.15
Зал "Баженов" / "Bazhenov" hall
Сессия: "Будущее городских транспортных систем" / The future of urban transport systems.
Creating Sustainable Mobility (Lone Star ACT 2014) Paul SteinbergDavid McMaster
Presented at Creating Sustainable Mobility seminar in Houston, Texas, October 14, 2014, by Paul Steinberg.
Paul Steinberg is Vice President of Business Development for Carma Carpool, a mobile transportation applications provider.
Smart cities, empowering people - Robert Ouellette in CRJEmily Hough
What happens the day cities become sentient, smarter than their citizens? Will we have a frightening, Terminator-like world? Robert Ouellette thinks not, but says the days of cities that are smarter than their humans are coming soon...
The future of cities: creative solutions for a brighter urban life Individual mobility is as simple as taking a walk. But the more that humans have to live in shared spaces, the more mobility becomes about technology—powering transit, but also coordinating it. And nowhere is this linkage as vivid as in cities.
Tomorrow's cities will be shaped by human-centric technology solutions—more ""Iron Man"" and less ""Skynet."" Over the coming decades, we'll see the proliferation of autonomous, connected, electric, shared transportation systems that will increase, rather than decrease, the importance of superb mass-transit systems and multi-modal options for getting from point A to point B. We'll create public/private partnerships, with policymakers at the local level creating markets for new technologies, infrastructure development, and advancing new thinking like mileage-based user fees. At the same time, denser cities will blur the lines between where we live and work, our energy consumption and production, and how we get around.
Ultimately, this upheaval creates vast new opportunities for business model innovation and startup wealth creation. Join URBAN-X Managing Director Micah Kotch for his view from the frontlines of urban mobility."
In the 1990s, as the digital revolution began to gather pace, some social commentators speculated that it would lead to the death of the city. People’s geographical location would become less important, the argument went, as they came to interact mostly in cyberspace.
The Future of Mobility - How Hyperloop, Boom Supersonic and Driverless Cars W...Antonio Auricchio
We are now on the verge of a new technological revolution of mobility. Transonic trains, supersonic airplanes and electric driverless cars will have the same impact on our modernity as their current old-fashioned versions had on our parents’. Mobility, or the lack of it, once again will decide which country, company or even person will drive the upcoming changes.
The aim of this Policy Brief is to raise awareness on the megatrends that are likely to transform the shape of our cities and the way we commute.
S13c16 chapter 16-facts and figures on urbanisation.Shivu P
Urbanization with all the amenities became the need for the affordable class of people. Urban slums are the people who lead the life in a bad condition where they do not have other ways to lead the life better than this, suffer a lot, acts like the reservoir of disease and spread the communicable diseases even to the affordable class of people. Traffic related issues, sanitation, transportation, domestic water supply, pollution are some of the major issues which will stick to the problem of urbanization. Now our leaders started solving these problems with fly over’s, metros, underground canal transportation, one way roads, pumping water from the rivers to the cities, identifying places to manage the waste, and so on. Do you think will these types of problems will solve by constructing more number of fly over’s?
Please understand, the solution for all these problems are not present in the urban area, but it is present in the rural area. People should stop migrating towards the urban areas, and that is possible only when the people who live in the village gets good income for their effort in their own village, good school for their children, better recreation facility in their own village and that is possible with model village - model nation plan. with model village and model nation people will stop migrating towards the urban areas and in fact those who have properties in their native village will move back to their village and thus the burden of urbanization will decrease. The leaders of the this world will understand this concept and will work in this way. Some of the facts and figures related to the urbanization are mentioned in this chapter.
EIP Water Action Group City Blueprints September 2013EIP Water
The City Blueprint for Water is a baseline assessment of the sustainability of water management in a city (or other dominantly urban region). The result allows a city to quickly understand how advanced it is in sustainable water management and enables it to compare its status with other leading cities.
This project is one of nine Action Groups selected by the European Commission as an initial EIP Water Action Group.
Sixteen cities/regions have participated so far (August 2013) and many others are being approached. This is an opportunity to take part in a new and innovative programme to help improve city-level water stewardship, in the spirit of smart and sustainable cities.
The basic output is a simple radar chart as shown in the example from Melbourne at the top of this page. The chart provides a quick visual representation of the city’s water stewardship status, and is a tool for easy comparison between cities. It covers 24 key water-related subject areas, such as water footprint, water scarcity, water quality, drinking water availability and wastewater management.
A City Blueprint is just the first step on a journey of communication and cooperation between cities. A key intention is to encourage cities to share their best practices with others, and for all to improve. A website will be developed to facilitate this. All cities are different. Some are advanced in a few or many subject areas. Some have much work to do. The aim is not to highlight failings, but instead to help a city identify areas of focus for improvement, and to learn from the best practices of others, as well as demonstrating and sharing their own best practices.
Эрик Дроми, футурист / Aric Dromi, futurologist
30 июня, 13.15
Зал "Баженов" / "Bazhenov" hall
Сессия: "Будущее городских транспортных систем" / The future of urban transport systems.
Creating Sustainable Mobility (Lone Star ACT 2014) Paul SteinbergDavid McMaster
Presented at Creating Sustainable Mobility seminar in Houston, Texas, October 14, 2014, by Paul Steinberg.
Paul Steinberg is Vice President of Business Development for Carma Carpool, a mobile transportation applications provider.
Smart cities, empowering people - Robert Ouellette in CRJEmily Hough
What happens the day cities become sentient, smarter than their citizens? Will we have a frightening, Terminator-like world? Robert Ouellette thinks not, but says the days of cities that are smarter than their humans are coming soon...
The future of cities: creative solutions for a brighter urban life Individual mobility is as simple as taking a walk. But the more that humans have to live in shared spaces, the more mobility becomes about technology—powering transit, but also coordinating it. And nowhere is this linkage as vivid as in cities.
Tomorrow's cities will be shaped by human-centric technology solutions—more ""Iron Man"" and less ""Skynet."" Over the coming decades, we'll see the proliferation of autonomous, connected, electric, shared transportation systems that will increase, rather than decrease, the importance of superb mass-transit systems and multi-modal options for getting from point A to point B. We'll create public/private partnerships, with policymakers at the local level creating markets for new technologies, infrastructure development, and advancing new thinking like mileage-based user fees. At the same time, denser cities will blur the lines between where we live and work, our energy consumption and production, and how we get around.
Ultimately, this upheaval creates vast new opportunities for business model innovation and startup wealth creation. Join URBAN-X Managing Director Micah Kotch for his view from the frontlines of urban mobility."
In the 1990s, as the digital revolution began to gather pace, some social commentators speculated that it would lead to the death of the city. People’s geographical location would become less important, the argument went, as they came to interact mostly in cyberspace.
Smart Europe,
Future City,
Smart City,
Environmental City,
EcoCity,
Green City,
Social City,
Human City,
Inclusive City,
European Innovation Partnership,
Intelligent Community,
Eco Property,
I-World Platform,
Smart World,
Future Technologies,
Encyclopedic Intelligence
GLOBAL CITIES Tomorrow: Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai, Moscow,… W...Azamat Abdoullaev
Global Urbanization and Smart Sustainable Cities
FUTRE WORLD
SUSTAINABLE WORLD
SMART WORLD
SMART SUSTAINABLE COUNTRIES, CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL GROWTH
SUSTAINABLE URBAN GROWTH
Smart cities | Smarter citizens Vienna - 25 Nov 2014 lrTim Jones
A keynote at the Zero Emission Cities Conference in Vienna focused on shifts in focus of smart cities. Key contrast is made between what is being embedded in city infrastructures to make them more intelligent and efficient vs. how people in cities can use, share and interpret data to make more intelligent decisions.
Talk is split into three parts:
What we say about the future of cities from the first Future Agenda programme in 2010
An overview of some of the key developments and collaborations that have taken place since
Some key questions that we see are being asked about citizen engagement that we will explore in the second future agenda programme in 2015
Success will depend on deeper, more holistic and informed planning, collaboration and execution. Transportation providers will need to become smarter. (1) Predict demand and optimize capacity and assets, (2) Improve operational efficiency while reducing environmental impact, (3) Dramatically improve the end-to-end traveler or customer experience, (4) Assure safety and security.
Estefanía Martínez nos explica, en este webinar de IEBS, qué son las Smart Cities y nos enseña ejemplos prácticos. Si deseas más información sobre los cursos de IEBS puedes entrar aquí: http://www.iebschool.com.
Smart City: provocări și pași ai evoluției / Smart Cities challengesRadu Vasiu
presentation for the Timis Academic Days Timisoara 28 May 2015
Smart City: provocări și pași ai evoluției / Smart Cities challenges
Sesiunea Plenara ZAT 2015, 28 mai 2015
Implicatiile schimbarilor climatice asupra societatii, economiei si mediului
Smarter Cities | IET Talk on the Built Environment in 2050Alexis Biller
Talk organised by The IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology) at Imperial College, London, on 27 November 2009.
- Build Environment Technologies sub-group:
http://kn.theiet.org/communities/betnet/
The talk commences with example startling data to seek audience attention & participation. Cities are a fulcrum of ever growing population migration, this presents various issues that must be faced promptly so as to allow the next generation an opportunity to define their own built environment (for living, working, and playing). The ecosystem of groups involved is presenting new opportunities for entrepreneurs and new partnerships. The talk ends with a brief look-back at the technology that has been developed over the last 50 years, before posing a set of new questions and opening for discussion.
Event Speakers:
- Hoare Lea (Huw Blackwell)- Sustainable Homes
- Arup (Duncan Wilson) - The future of the workplace
- IBM (Alexis Biller and Chris Phillips) - Smart Cities and Urban Informatics
Link to this presentation using: www.bit.ly/smartC
(IBM internal link http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/20V2)
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role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
1. 1
“The
future will
only
contain
what we
put in it
now”
PHOTOGRAPH: MITCHELL JOACHIM/TERREFORM ONE IN THIS ISSUE
How do you Envision the City of the
Future? by Nayla Fakhoury
There are many criteria that
define and categorize a city among which:
its population size, its transportation
system, its use of resources and
communication system, and its
infrastructure. When asked to envision the
city of the future, we can only look at the
past and the present to determine the
upcoming developments.
We know for a fact that the
population size of cities is not shrinking.
In the 1900, the world’s largest city was
London with a population of around 6.5
million, today we have more than 29
cities with a population above 10 million
and the number is expected to double
within 30 years raising many alarms,
especially knowing that natural resources
are limited and cities are already having
trouble managing their current
populations. Leaving us to question, How
will the cities of the future adapt to its
overpopulation?
Tackling issues of transportation,
resources and communication, cities that
want to move forward and avoid future
disasters will have to be “Smart Cities”,
which are Cities that will have to find
solutions for when the time comes and not
settle to being technologically oriented.
How will they manage the housing of
their population when it doubles?
How will they replace sources of energy
when it becomes scarce? How will they
handle communication? How will they
manage all the waste generated?
Some countries have started
building from scratch “Smart Cities” for a
future that hasn’t arrived yet such as
Songdo City in South Korea or Masdar
City in UAE, cities that rely on
sustainable resources, become eco-
friendly etc… while others are facing the
challenge of how to transform and adapt
their currently built cities into becoming
smart ones.
The above transformation will
underline the survivability of a city,
however what about the cities that will
not be able to afford to move forward or
that will be lagging behind, will they
survive? Will they still exist naturally?
Will they merge with neighboring
megacities? We will leave the politics of
“Un-Smart” cities aside for now…
In this newsletter I have compiled
a series of articles that will help us
envision how some scientists and cities
are reacting to the alarms that have been
risen and started their transformation into
“Smart Cities”. After all quoting Darren
Anderson “The future will only contain
what we put in it now”.
The Mega City of the
Future…
The concentration of inhabitants,
buildings and infrastructures is rising
exponentially as available space
continues to shrink.
Page #2
Energy Generating
Pavement
A 20 square meter array of our award-
winning V3 technology is the center piece
of what has been billed the ‘world’s first
smart street’.
Page #3
2. 1
A number of companies and
designers are already experimenting with
food-based materials for construction.
In 2014, MoMA used 10,000
bricks constructed from mushrooms to
build an experimental tower. But it
doesn't stop there.
The Thai company Kokoboard is
using waste material from sunflower
crops to produce non-toxic, high-strength
boards that can be used for floors,
ceilings, and internal walls. And in the
leather-replacement space, Ananas Anam,
a British startup, is using pineapples to
make upholster-worthy leather
substitutes.”
Could food waste be used as a
construction material to build our cities
of the future? by Tessa Love
Image: Eduard Korniyenko
“About half of all
the food produced in
the world ends up in
the trash.”
“There are already 29 megacities
and the number is growing fast. The
concentration of inhabitants, buildings
and infrastructures is rising exponentially
as available space continues to shrink.
Many of these cities are located in
low-lying coastal regions, which are
especially vulnerable to the effects of
extreme weather and climate change. At
the same time, life expectancy is
increasing in many regions in the world;
above all in Asia.
In 2030, 15% of the world’s
population will be older than 60. This
trend is also taking place in megacities.
Allianz addresses the implications
of these developments and describes the
role of insurance. Theis explains, “As
living conditions in large metropolises
change, so do the needs of their
inhabitants and we, as insurers, are going
to have to meet them. For example, in the
case of managing the risk of natural
catastrophes or supporting infrastructure
projects.””
The Mega city of the Future
is Smart by Alianz SE
“29 and counting: The
number of megacities with
more than 10 million
inhabitants is expected to
grow to over 40 by 2030.”
https://www.allianz.com/en/press/
news/studies/151130_the-
megacity-of-the-future-is-smart/
“About half of all the food
produced in the world ends up in the
trash, accounting for about 60 million
tons of food. Applying circular thinking
to this issue in conjunction with
construction waste could mean pouring
less produce into landfills while
simultaneously making building materials
that are recyclable to keep construction
waste out of dumps. Meanwhile, some
materials could be grown like crops,
eliminating excess waste entirely.
In their report The Urban Bio
Loop, the engineering firm sees our future
buildings made from pineapples, potatoes,
mushrooms, corn, oranges, bananas and
more.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda
/2017/11/could-food-waste-be-
used-as-a-construction-material-
to-build-our-cities-of-the-future
3. 3
Sustainability
Smart lighting:
Intelligent and weather adaptive
street lights to boost energy
efficiency.
Smart waste management:
Monitoring garbage levels in
containers in real-time to optimize
collection routes.
Smart grids:
Energy consumption monitoring and
management. Uses tech to detect
and react to local changes in usage.”
The launch also coincides with
release of our app, which rewards
people for their footsteps via the tribal
Planet Citizen Earth platform.
Pavegen is accompanying
Airlabs, an air cleaning bench and
Airlite whose paint removes VOC;s
and NOx emissions from the air,
which has been applied to pop-up
shopping pods.
The street which has been
transformed from a forgotten side road
into an attractive and healthier oasis
has really caught the imagination of
local communities.
Energy-Genrating Pavement Just
became a reality in London
“Pavegen unveils
world’s first
energy-harvesting
Smart Street in
London”
Since November 2010, Masdar City
has been operating a personal rapid
transit (PRT) system, which has now
carried more than 2 million passengers
between its two stations without a
single accident or injury. System
availability and vehicle reliability
consistently exceed 99.6% and 99.9%
respectively.
The Cities of the
Future are going to
look very Different.
Here's why… by Jeff
Desjardins
by Name Style
“Cities are the engines of modern
society. They power the global economy,
consume vast amounts of resources, house
the majority of the world’s population,
and create much of the pollution and
emissions that have scientists concerned
about the future.
The arrival of the Internet of
Things (IoT) – thanks to innovations in
cheap sensor technology, big data, and
predictive analytics – is making it
possible to tackle all sorts of urban issues.
Integrating this, along with other
advancements in information
communication technology (ICT), into
urban planning is the vision for smart
cities. Here are some of the initiatives
taken on by the people running the
smartest cities today:
Smart roads:
Monitoring vehicle and pedestrian
levels to optimize or divert traffic
according to conditions. Intelligent,
adaptive fast and slow lanes for
walking and cycling.
Smart buildings:
Rooftop gardens or vegetation on
sides of buildings to help with
insulation. Optimization of heating,
energy usage, lighting, and
ventilation.
photovoltaics and wind turbines into
building designs.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda
/2017/09/this-is-how-the-worlds-
smartest-cities-are-being-built
“On June 29 Pavegen launched
its latest installation at Bird Street,
which runs off Oxford Street, the
busiest shopping site in Europe.
Commissioned by the New
West End Company and Transport for
London, a 20 square meter array of our
award-winning V3 technology is the
centre piece of what has been billed the
‘world’s first smart street’.
The kinetic energy of visitor’s
footsteps is being converted into
electricity to power bird sounds during
the day and a lighting display at night.
http://www.pavegen.com/bird-
street/
4. 4
Malmo City- FLICKR, LA CITTA VITA
Songdo City- Jeffrey Tripp/Flickr
Transportation at Masdar- Personal rapid transit (PRT) system
Since November 2010,
Masdar City has been operating a
personal rapid transit (PRT) system,
which has now carried more than 2
million passengers between its two
stations without a single accident or
injury. System availability and vehicle
reliability consistently exceed 99.6%
and 99.9% respectively.
“The low-carbon development
of Masdar City has an integral role in
transforming Abu Dhabi’s economy
from an oil foundation to one with a
knowledge and innovation base. It
serves as a centralized test bed for
global renewable energy and
technology companies.”
“Through smart investments, Masdar
City is successfully pioneering a
“greenprint” for how cities can
accommodate rapid urbanization and
dramatically reduce energy, water and
waste”
MASDAR CITY
Smart Cities Examples
SONGDO CITY
0% Carbon City
“Songdo International
Business District in South Korea is a
prime example of a new city that
brings together the world’s best
technologies, building design and eco-
friendly practices to create the ultimate
lifestyle and work experience. Built
from the ground up on reclaimed land
near the Yellow Sea, the $35-billion-
dollar Songdo project is a model for
smart cities around the globe.
In addition to the widespread
implementation of the U.S. Green
Building Council’s LEED™ standard,
MALMO CITY
40% of the city has been set aside as
green public space. Songdo offers
residents, visitors, and businesses an
idyllic and sustainable place in which
to live, work, and play.
South Korea was exporting its
smart city project into Kuwait. In
Kuwait, LH will build a four billion
dollar project. The name of the city
will be South Saad”
Sustainability
“Malmo, Sweden, for
example, used to be a polluted
industrial center that was home to
nuclear power plants. Since 2000,
however, city officials have closed
both plants and pledged to make
Malmo both carbon neutral by 2020
and able to run on entirely renewable
energy by 2030. By the end of this
year, they also expect Malmo's fleet
http://smartcityhub.com/urban-
planning-and-building/songdo-
model-of-the-smart-and-
sustainable-city-of-the-future/
of municipal vehicles to run on either
hydrogen, electricity or biogas, the
latter of which is created from
mandatorily collected food waste.”
http://mashable.com/2015/03/05
/future-cities/#lDYyhqfC.sqI
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