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List of smart cities

List of smart cities is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of smart cities rather than just read about it. In short: The following is a list of cities that have implemented smart city initiatives, organized by continent and then alphabetically. The Institute for Management Development and Singapore University of Technology and Design rank cities in the Smart City Index according to technological, economic and human criteria (e.g., the quality of life, the environment and inclusiveness).

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Reference excerpt

The following is a list of cities that have implemented smart city initiatives, organized by continent and then alphabetically. The Institute for Management Development and Singapore University of Technology and Design rank cities in the Smart City Index according to technological, economic and human criteria (e.g., the quality of life, the environment and inclusiveness). In the Smart City Index 2023, the top 15 smart cities were, in order, Zürich, Oslo, Canberra, Copenhagen, Lausanne, London, Singapore, Helsinki, Geneva, Stockholm, Hamburg, Beijing, Abu Dhabi, Prague, and Amsterdam. Since the first publication of the index in 2019, Zürich and Oslo have always been in the first place and second place.

Africa The New Capital, Egypt

Asia

Dubai, UAE In 2013, the Smart Dubai project was initiated by Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president of UAE, which contained more than 100 initiatives to make Dubai a smart city by 2030. The project aimed to integrate private and public sectors, enabling citizens to access these sectors through their smartphones. Some initiatives include the Dubai Autonomous Transportation Strategy to create driverless transits, fully digitizing government, business and customer information and transactions, and providing citizens 5000 hotspots to access government applications by 2021. Two mobile applications, mPay and DubaiNow, facilitate various payment services for citizens ranging from utilities or traffic fines to educational, health, transport, and business services. In addition, the Smart Nol Card is a unified rechargeable card enabling citizens to pay for all transportation services such as metro, buses, water bus, and taxis. There is also the Dubai Municipality's Digital City initiative which assigns each building a unique QR code that citizens can scan containing information about the building, plot, and location. The Smart City Index 2021, published by the Institute for Management Development and Singapore University of Technology and Design, ranked Dubai and Abu Dhabi as the smartest cities in the region of the Middle East and North Africa, and in positions 28 and 29 worldwide.

GIFT City, India

GIFT City is India's first operational greenfield smart city. It is being developed as an international financial hub. Work on core infrastructure has fully been completed. It is the first South Asian city which has a centralised district cooling centre and automated solid waste collection system. Many commercial buildings, a school, and the Gujarat Biotechnology University are complete. Work on several residential projects is ongoing. Two international stock exchanges, international banks and fin-tech firms are currently operating from this city. IBM opened its software lab in the city in September 2022. Work on GIFT Riverfront started in September 2022.

Chennai, India Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu which will be developed into a Smart City. The Chennai Smart City project has focused on accomplishing Smart Energy, Smart Water, Smart Environment, Smart Mobility and Smart Technology. The project successfully rejuvenated 210 water bodies which improved groundwater levels. The CSC project constructed a suspension glass floor bridge making a stunning tourist attraction. The projects plans to make the quality of life in the city better by these initiatives. Work on the CSC project began in 2015 and was expected to finish in June 2024. The CEO of the project is Raj Cherubal.

Isfahan, Iran Isfahan has a smart city program, a unified human resources administration system, and transport system.

Neom, Saudi Arabia

NEOM (Arabic: نيوم) is the name of a future planned city to be built in Tabuk Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and to function as a tourist destination. The site is north of the Red Sea, east of Egypt across the Gulf of Aqaba, and south of Jordan. It will cover a total area of 26,500 km2 (10,200 sq mi) and will extend 460 km along the coast of the Red Sea.

New Songdo City, South Korea

Songdo International Business District is planned to be a smart city.

Shanghai, China Shanghai has seen considerable productivity gains from the development of the IoT and high-speed broadband connectivity. During the first China International Import Expo, Shanghai focused on smart mobility and installed sensors to accept smartphone traffic cards at all metro stations and on buses to improve mobility.

Singapore

Singapore, a city-state, has embarked on transforming towards a "Smart Nation", and endeavours to harness the power of networks, data and info-comm technologies to improve living, create economic opportunities and build closer communities.

Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei started the "smarttaipei" project in 2016, where the major concept of is to change the culture of city hall government to be able to adopt new ideas and new concepts called bottom-up mechanism. The Taipei City government established the "Taipei Smart City Project Management Office", also known as the "PMO", to implement and governance the development of smart city. Thereafter, building an innovation matchmaking platform to combine industry and government resources to develop smart solutions that satisfy public demands. PMO accept proposals from industry and help to negotiate with relative department of Taipei city to initiate new proof of concept(PoC) project, with the help of a matchmaking platform which allows citizens access necessary innovative technologies. There are more than 150 PoC Project established, and only 34% project finished.

Australia

Brisbane Brisbane launched a project to install poles around the city that would keep track of important information such as air quality or environmental noise. The information they collect is used by the city council to improve operations around the city. They also serve as street lights, have outlets for charging, and Wi-Fi. In 2023, the Salisbury smart cities controversy arose after a proposal for smart city technology in the South Australian local government area of City of Salisbury was met with community backlash leading to a range of conspiracy theories.

Europe

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of List of smart cities

In research: List of smart cities appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of smart cities in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of smart cities is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Lists of cities, Smart cities, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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