The document discusses various smart city initiatives in American cities, highlighting plans from locations like San Antonio, Denver, and developments from Bill Gates and Jeffrey Berns. It outlines different stages of smart city development, emphasizing that these initiatives are long-term programs that require unique approaches tailored to each city's needs. Additionally, it introduces the concept of self-managed smart cities, which scientists are currently researching for future implementation.

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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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