The document discusses challenges facing modern cities like contamination, crime, quality of life, and energy issues. It then outlines the author's vision for the future city, focusing on energy, security, mobility, and healthcare. The future city is envisioned to have more renewable energy and efficient appliances. Security would be improved with surveillance cameras and tracking devices. Mobility would be advanced with self-driving electric cars, high-speed train systems like Hyperloop, and aerial public transport. Healthcare innovations could include nanotechnology, assistive robots, predictive health implants, and bionic replacements.

1. How do you envision the
city of the future?
Francisco Xu
IE application 2015

2. Cities and their problems
City
Contami-
nation
Crime
Quality of
life
Energy

3. Contamination
 Bad air quality
 Water pollution
 Cities are untidy and
dirty
 Lack of green and
parks

4. Contamination
• Bad air quality
• Water pollution
• Cities are untidy
and dirty
• Lack of green and
parks

5. Crime
• Discrimination
because of skin
colour, ethnic
origin or religion
• Violent crimes
• Property crimes
• Be attacked by
strangers

6. Quality of life
• High cost of living
and purchasing
• Non Affordability
of housing
• Rising crime rates
• Health system
quality
• Traffic (commute
times)

7. Energy
• Contamination
created in order to
get electricity
• Waste of energy in
jams
• Use of appliances
that are not
efficient
• Not enough use of
renewable energy

8. How do I envision the
future city?
Energy Security
Mobility Healthcare
The future
of cities

9. Energy
• More use of
renewable energy,
such as
photovoltaic panels
in buildings roofs
• Use of energy
saving appliances
• More green spaces
and parks

10. Security
• More use of
surveillance
cameras in the
street, as well of
facial recognition
software
• Implant or use of
tracking devices in
order to track
people
• Police robots that
replace humans to
avoid more
casualties

11. Mobility
• Cars that drive
automatically and use
only electric motors
• Creation of a
transport that travels
750 km/s between
cities(Hyperloop)
• Aerial magnetic
public transportation
to avoid traffic jams

12. Healthcare
• Use of
nanotechnology to
repair inside the
body
• Use of robots to
assist sick people
• Implants that detect
future health
problems on people
• Bionic implants
that replace human
parts that suffered
cancer