Smart City
New Smartcity on Global Warming
C40 (https://www.c40.org/about) is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively, share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable action on climate change.
This includes 90+ large cities.
What is Smartcity? The smart city of the future!
To optimize traffic or waste management, every city administration needs information. Smartphones and other communication tools offer advantages over sensors in many cases - and social networks even encourage citizens' creativity.
Carlo Rattik, Anthony Townsend
Reference: 1. Die smarte Stadt der Zukunft. Spektrum (2012), 4:S63.
On January 6, 2011, Tunisian blogger Slim Amamou was arrested as a regime critic. But he informed friends and journalists via the social network "Foursquare". Foursquare is based on an application, or app for short, for mobile phones. Because the app uses the device's built-in GPS sensor to automatically report location to the network when logging in, Amamou was able to be located in Tunis prison. The arrest reverberated around the world in the press - and sparked further uprisings. Thus, Generation Internet contributed to the flight of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to Saudi Arabia eight days later.
Less than two weeks later, protests against the ruling regime also erupted on Cairo's streets. Once again, the modern communications media played an important role. The government immediately shut down both the country's Internet service and its mobile phone network. But millions of people had already shown solidarity with each other via Facebook, Twitter and chat rooms. Because the country's economy was in danger of being damaged, the media was allowed to be used again. The mass protests continued, and President Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11.
Social networks, the Internet and cell phones are already creating conditions under which urban societies are changing the way they live. However, many urban planners limit their concepts of "smart cities" - cities equipped with information-processing technologies - to the optimization of individual processes only. The flagship of such projects is Masdar in the United Arab Emirates, a city built out of the desert for 50,000 inhabitants. There, every building and vehicle, even every streetlight, is equipped with high-tech accessories to reduce energy consumption to a minimum. The same is true of New Songdo City in South Korea and PlanIT Valley in Portugal.
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Metropolises of the future
Hieris a comparison (course participant Josef Haisch) between Lagos and Tokyo (2019): Tokyo impresses with modern solutions, Lagos faces the seething chaos of a Meag City.
http://www.metropolen-der-zukunft.de/39994.html
Top 10 in year 2014:
1. Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama (Japan) | 33.000.000 |
2. Mumbai -Thane-Kalyan (Indien) | 27.700.000 |
3. Delhi-Gurgaon-Ghaziabad (Indien) | 27.100.000 |
4. Jakarta - Tangerang - Bekasi (Indonesien) | 23.600.000 |
5. Soul-Inch'on-Suwon (Südkorea) | 23.400.000 |
6. Mexiko City-Ecatepec-Nezahuacoyotl (Mexiko) | 22.800.000 |
7. Karachi (Pakistan) | 22.800.000 |
8. Sao Paulo-Guarulhos-Sto.Andre (Brasilien) | 22.500.000 |
9. Shanghai (China) | 21.400.000 |
10. Kairo-Al Giza (Ägypten) | 20.200.000 |
Top 10 in year 2025:
1. Pearl River City (China) | 73.000.000 |
2. MumbaiThaneKalyan (Indien) | 43.000.000 |
3. DelhiGurgaonGhaziabad (Indien) | 42.500.000 |
4. TokyoYokohama (Japan) | 35.000.000 |
5. Jakarta Bogor (Indonesien) | 32.800.000 |
6. Karachi (Pakistan) | 31.400.000 |
7. Shanghai (China) | 30.000.000 |
8. Lagos (Nigeria) | 28.800.000 |
9. KolkataHaoraBhatpara (Indien) | 28.000.000 |
10.KairoAl Giza (Ägypten) | 27.000.000 |
Top 10 in year 2050:
1. DelhiMeerutSonipat (Indien) | 88.000.000 |
2. Pearl River City (China) | 86.000.000 |
3. MumbaiKalyan (Indien) | 85.000.000 |
4. ShanghaiSuzhouWuxi (China) | 70.000.000 |
5. BeijingLangfangTianjin (China) | 65.000.000 |
6. Dhaka (Bangladesch) | 60.000.000 |
7. Lagos (Nigeria) | 58.000.000 |
8. Karachi (Pakistan) | 55.000.000 |
9. Kolkata (Indien) | 55.000.000 |
10. JakartaBogor (Indonesien) | 52.000.000 |
Practical examples for a smart city
Smart meters ("e-energy")
The energy consumption of private households can be reduced with the help of intelligent energy systems - so-called smart grids - and corresponding incentive mechanisms. http://www.e-energy.de/de/Kongress2013.php
"UR:BAN" is to optimize transport efficiency in urban areas while reducing emissions. This goal is to be achieved by expanding intelligent infrastructure and link it with intelligent vehicles, taking special account of new propulsion concepts.
- http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb14bau/de/institute/ifv/verkehrstechnik-und-transportlogistik/forschung.html
- http://urban-online.org/de/urban.html
Würzburg on the way to an intelligent city of the future
Smart City Munich
Smart City Rotterdam - Challenges of an established major city
Catalyst
"Especially in the field of energy supply, there are new, smart concepts that save a lot of energy with new biochemical methods and catalysts but also open up the possibility of new fuel cycles, for example with hydrogen and methanol.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/rostocker-gewinnen-wasserstoff-mit-neuer-technik-a-885891.html
