Rather than retrofitting old cities, the buzz today is about building entire smart cities from scratch in a matter of a few years.
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Managing the opportunities and challenges of cities is both vital and urgent as global urbanization rushes ahead on a dramatic scale.
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Rather than banish airports to the edge of town and then do our best to avoid them, the authors believe we will build this century’s cities around them.
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As the world urbanizes, the first smart cities with state-of-the-art networking and monitoring technology are beginning to open for business. To find out what life will be like in a place where everything from your health stats to your workplace is constantly monitored, we turned to Ayesha Khanna, managing partner of Hybrid Realities, an advisory firm that specializes in analyzing emerging-market and technology trends. Khanna, who recently visited South Korea’s Songdo International Business District, spoke with Mary Kuntz, managing editor of McKinsey’s What Matters.
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In the city of the future, the most important transportation system will not be cars, buses, subways, or even futuristic monorails. It will be the elevator.
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Nothing about megacities should be organic or left to chance; they must be planned and managed in a careful and innovative way.
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We asked our readers to send us photos of life in their city. So far, we’ve received scores of responses from around the globe showing much in common among these far-flung locales, as well as great differences.
China now has a historic chance to reinvent not only its cities but the very idea of a city. The choices that its city leaders make will shape not only its buildings but also its society, and indeed the world.
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Cities have always created wealth, and have always been a population sink. Still, a world now more than half urban and headed toward 80 percent urban by mid-century is something new in history.
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The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by The City.
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Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities on the planet. Yet it is set on an infrastructure that was meant for a far, far smaller place.
While the walls may have come down from today’s urban centers, encroachment is still their mantra.
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How big can cities get? Only if we start building them will we begin to learn the answer.
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06 Apr 2011 · 11:05:29 AM GMT
Congratulation for this article. It give us somthing to thing about our next future. I live in Santiago (Chile) and not only for this city but for almost all cities in my country one of the mayor problems for working out a sustentainable growing plan...—Ruben Alzola
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05 Apr 2011 · 01:52:54 PM GMT
How can you simultaneously compare city sprawl to a Petri dish of bacteria then claim that urban philosophy must be ‘based on natural processes’. Metaphors and buzzwords should be thought through before employed so recklessly. The id...—Kajetan Zwieniecki
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24 Feb 2011 · 12:05:20 PM GMT
Nice article. As someone who works in for a “built environment” consultancy i thought this was interesting and very relevant. I agree that we need to see more engaged technology and infrastructure of what makes our cities cities. The ...—Dave
In response to Talking back to your intelligent city
20 Feb 2011 · 01:53:57 PM GMT
very relevant and useful article + discussion. I suggest you take a look at the article “The City that thinks with you” published last month in the Fraunhoher magazine (pp. 34-35). Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the german and european b...—arnaud queyrel
In response to Talking back to your intelligent city
18 Feb 2011 · 12:52:20 PM GMT
thank you all…very very helpful comments. i really appreciate the care in these comments. and yes, the environmental issue is critical. i am doing a serious project on this —“Bridging the ecologies of cities and of the biosphere....—Saskia Sassen
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10 Feb 2011 · 08:54:56 AM GMT
Technological advances has no direct correlation to assist in improving the quality of life for the city’s denizens.—Shire Jobs UK