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Taken together, new and retrofitted smart cities create uneven geographic development. More often than not, the “losers” are those whose interests are not protected by smart city policies. Unfortunately, this approach creates winners and losers, depending on who accesses and pays for these developments. They add smart features such as e-waste recycling, e-rickshaws, smart water meters and more to existing infrastructure. On the other hand, there are retrofitted smart cities, which focus on attracting investment to business districts and urban neighbourhoods. Here are three of the toughest challenges facing those involved with smart cities today – and some suggestions about how to overcome them.īuilt to fail? Tom Olliver/Flickr, CC BY-NCĪll of these cities have reneged on their grandiose pledges to address the issues which accompany migration, urban population growth and climate change. At this year’s annual meeting of the UN’s Commission for Science and Technology for Development, I set out to explore these big issues in more depth. But it’s also important to ask who gets to live in them, and what it means to be a citizen of a smart city. Most technologists and engineers are busy investigating how to build smart cities, and what features to give them. Any feature which uses information and communication technologies to make a city more efficient or more accessible, is said to come under the umbrella of the “smart city”. These can be anything from city-wide public wifi systems to the provision of smart water meters in individual homes. Also called the “wired”, “networked” or “ubiquitous” city, the “smart city” is the latest in a long line of catch-phrases, referring to the development of technology-based urban systems for driving efficient city management and economic growth. The notion of the “smart city” has been gaining attention around the world.
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