THE FUTURE OF CITIES:
SUSTAINABILITY AND
TECHNOLOGY !
FOUNDER & IoT ADVOCATE
MARC POUS
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Marc Pous
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Smart City
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Big Data
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Urban
Sustainability
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2012, Brazil
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1971, Chile
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New Songdo,
2015
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Masdar, 2025
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and the citizens?
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2011, Japan
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Mobility
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Copenhagen Wheel, Denmark
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TransMilenio, Bogotá, Colombia
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Parking sensors, Moscow Russia
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Energy
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SMARTBLOCKS, Melbourne (Australia)
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100% Green Power (2025), Munich, Germany
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Recycling
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Trash project, Seattle
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Education
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Morar Carioca, favelas Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Air quality
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Air Quality Egg
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Smart Citizen Kit, Fab Lab Barcelona
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Agriculture
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Open Source Beehives, Fab Lab Barcelona
Urban
Sustainability?
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Smart City?
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Empower
citizens!
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CHALLENGE
TIME
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CHALLENGE 1
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How would you
make Munich
more sustainable?
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Ideas?
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Take a post-it and write down your techno-optimist ideas to improve the life of
+10M people in Germany using technologies!
CHALLENGE 2
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10M people in
Germany
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How would you
improve their life
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Ideas?
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Take a post-it and write down your techno-optimist ideas to improve the life of
+10M people in Germany using technologies!
FOUNDER & IoT ADVOCATE
MARC POUS
MARC@THETHINGS.IO
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CREDITS
● http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-instead.html
● http://brooklyngrangefarm.com/
● http://www.opensourcebeehives.net/
● http://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represent_democracy_in_action.html
● http://dupress.com/articles/a-movement-in-the-making/
● http://www.fastcoexist.com/3016816/the-10-cities-that-are-leading-the-way-in-urban-sustainability
● http://cityclimateleadershipawards.com/munich-100-green-power/

The future of our cities: sustainability and technology