How can we adapt these big information infrastructures to the needs of little people, little organizations, and communities?
The place to start is not with infrastructure, it is with places, and people.
Examples from Birmingham, Sunderland, Dublin, San Francisco, Singapore etc.
There is tremendous potential to produce new information based marketplaces that could support more sustainable city systems.
We need to start telling stories about how our lives in smarter cities might get better.
How should cities to handle all these very radical technological advances which will shape the way cities develop and function? The initially surprising response: have more cups of tea. It is a very soft idea, but I think a very important one.
When cities and urban areas are the engines of productivity, the connections between economic, environmental, and the social are essential to understanding sustainable intelligent cities
Good examples include:
Vancouver is usually chosen as the best or second best city to live in the world due to its high quality of life;
Copenhagen is the first capital city in the world with the goal of reaching 0 emissions of CO2 by the year 2025;
Curitiba implemented the first system of fast bus transport in the whole world
Medellin has a cable car system that helps transport poor people who live in the hills.
