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The City of the Future
El Bacha Akram
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The city of the future - Green and Eco-friendly Environment
• Reduced CO2 emissions through eco-friendly cars and factories’ gas filters
• Increased plantation of trees on buildings’ tops and balconies
• Development of green electricity through solar power, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and chemical fuel pollution
• Green acting as a factor for improving health status, not only as decoration
• New projects for green parks as public places
• Social responsibility and commitment through increased awareness of facts and benefits
• Amplified Green environment orientation
The city of the future – 3D Printing
3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model
• Reduced waste of raw materials
• Less energy consumption
• Increased availability of resources
• Costs’ cutting
• Accessibility to everyone
• Eco-friendly use free of pollution
The city of the future – Economic Growth
• Advanced technology
• New available resources
• Specialization and division of labor
• More capital goods
• Stronger currencies
• Increased foreign direct investments
• Increased trades with imports and exports
The city of the future – Transportation
• Implementation of Air-propelled train
• Increased fabrication of hybrid cars; propelled by gas or electricity
• Emergence of the PRT vehicles; small vehicle technologies designed to carry four or less passengers on an elevated guideway, or at ground level, with off-line stations
• Development of flying cars
The city of the future – Communications & High-Tech
• Increased broadband speed
• Reduction in digital divide
• Expansion of networks and Internet
• Emergence of the “augmented reality” applications; allowing to view the world through a technological overlay and get information about what is being seen
• Expansion of touch screens to bathroom mirrors, tables, living-room windows…
• Appearance of the brain computers; capable of reading one’s thoughts
• Development of “Dream Modification”; capable of altering dreams so to set good moods when waking up
Conclusion
The city of the future should have;
• A high quality of life, supporting the health and wellbeing of its inhabitants
• Resilience to the impacts of climate change
• An attractive built and natural environments
A city’s economic, social and environmental progress will be ever more closely related to its technological progress.
Finally we will be able to speak of Smart and Green Cities