As urban populations grow and technology advances, cities worldwide are adopting smart city innovations to enhance everyday life. A smart city integrates digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and sustainable solutions to improve urban efficiency, safety, and quality of life. These developments impact everything from transportation and energy consumption to public services and work environments. Here’s how smart cities are reshaping the way we live and work.
Weiterlesen: How Smart Cities Are Transforming the Way We Live and Work
Mark Whyte, partner for security and resilience consulting for EMEA at Control Risks, explains how to reduce risk in smart city developments as urban populations sprawl, and city projects and developments grow larger.
High profile real estate and infrastructure developments – mega and giga projects in particular – are a significant and continually expanding part of global economic activity. These massive ventures are fuelled by population growth and urbanisation, government stimulus packages, industrialisation and the rise of smart cities.
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Picture a city where AI anticipates your needs before you even voice them. Traffic moves effortlessly as predictive analytics reroute congestion before it happens. Energy consumption is fine-tuned through self-optimizing intelligent grids, reducing waste while ensuring seamless power distribution. Public services, from healthcare to transportation, adapt in real time using machine learning, creating a city that is not just efficient but truly responsive to its residents.
This is not the backdrop of a sci-fi film. It is the emerging reality of urban living. As AI-driven infrastructure takes hold, cities are evolving into dynamic, self-regulating ecosystems where technology works in harmony with human activity. The future will be sustainable, immersive, and tailored to individual and collective needs, a transformation that goes beyond the traditional concept of a smart city.
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These smart cities are shaping the way people will live, travel and interact in the future
For the modern traveller, visiting a city isn’t simply about exploring its history. It can also be about glimpsing the future. The concept of a “smart city” emerged in the late 20th century as urban centres sought to integrate technology to enhance efficiency, sustainability and quality of life. Today, these cities use artificial intelligence, big data and automation to drive economic growth, maximise resources and create seamless experiences for residents and tourists alike. From AI-driven transit to eco-conscious architecture, these smart cities prove that innovation and tourism are a perfect match. If you want to experience what tomorrow looks like today, these smart cities are the destinations to put on your radar.
Weiterlesen: 10 futuristic smart cities that marry innovation with tourism
Proposed across continents, these cities show what our world could look like in 50 years.
Perhaps nothing is more humanistic than the pursuit of futuristic cities. We write about them in utopian—and dystopian—novels, offer glimpses of what they’d look like in movies and TV shows, and now, it seems, we build them too. Though designing for the future could be understood as the most basic requirement for architects and urban planners, in recent years, this goal has been taken to a new level. It seems every few months, firms unveil plans for wholly reimagined metropolitan areas: from floating cities to those in outer space, the offerings are relentless. In these new cities, sustainable infrastructure and smart technology is often a given, and in some cases, the plans even include things that haven’t even been invented (or brought to market) yet—like flying cars or extremely high-speed autonomous transit. Still, it never hurts to dream big, right? With that in mind, AD rounded up six of the most interesting proposals for futuristic cities, some of which are already under construction. Which one are you moving to?