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No one starts from a blank sheet. Services are already managed by people, processes, and technology. All we need to do is harness them for the Smart City model:
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The main challenges
Cities, if they are to endure for any significant time, need to adapt to changes both inside and encrouching from outside. The changes themselves can be gradual or sudden, man-made or “an act of nature”. A Smart City will need to provide services that can react strategically and tactically in order to mitigate the negative effects of change and to utilise the opportunities that changes present.
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A Smart City uses technology to harness data about people and their environment, in order to manage and deliver more efficient and effective services to its citizens. This is normally facilitated by instrumentation, automation and digital technologies, in a positive feedback mechanism. In addition a Smart City can enhance the local economy by providing information and metrics that drive innovations which improve services, and uncover potential for new services, thus stimulating business opportunity and commerce.
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Cities are more than just a collection of buildings and their inhabitants, they are distinguished from other urban centres by their size, ceremonial, symbolic and legal designation. Throughout history the distribution of inhabitants between the countryside and urban centres has shifted with unprecedented growth in the preference for city dwelling over the last 200 years.