What Is a Smart City?
What is a smart city?
Smart cities can achieve many different things. However, they do need to be considered as a whole within the context of the city’s overall goal and vision. This is what makes them so difficult to define in isolation. I am going to try and summarize briefly what it is that a smart city can do, and what it can’t do. A smart city that can’t do anything is also a smart city that can’t be a smart city.
A smart city is not just a city that uses some sort of technology to get things done, but a city that is a living organism like a plant or animal. It is an ecosystem, which means that each element or cell is part and parcel of the whole. It is not just a smart technology or a smart system, but a living organism.
What happens when you have a city that is not smart? All of the elements, including the smart ones, will be able to communicate with each other, but will be unable to work together the way they were intended to work. They will communicate as individual entities, and no two elements will be able to work together the way they were intended to work.
If we think of cities as living organisms, then what is the relationship between the living creatures and the city? That is the relationship between city and creatures. The creatures and the city are a symbiotic partnership, in that the city improves the creatures’ quality of life. For example, when we have a car, the creature’s quality of life improves. A car reduces the creatures’ environmental impact. A car also improves the creature’s quality of life.
Smart cities are an interplay between the city and creatures. This means that each of the city’s parts is also a living organism. In this, the city is an interwoven matrix of living organisms – not just technology.
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