211R_Smart Cities for Dummies (book summary)

What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in smart city implementation?

Summary of the book titled Smart Cities for Dummies from 2020 by Jonathan Reichental.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Jonathan Reichental in episode 212 talking about smart city as an outcome.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to implement smart cities. This book investigates the concept of smart cities and the steps required to establish one.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

1. Smart cities enhance urban living by leveraging technology for sustainability and efficiency, focusing on innovations in transportation, energy, waste management, and climate response.
2. The implementation of smart city initiatives requires flexible planning, broad stakeholder engagement, and adaptability, with a step-by-step approach from setting goals to executing solutions.
3. Smart cities prioritize robust data governance and management, with an emphasis on using data effectively for improving city operations, decision-making, and enhancing residents' quality of life.

Find the book through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.003 - Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast about Amsterdam Smart City;
• No.028R - Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications;
• No.090 - Interview with Matthew McCartney about African urban evolution

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