Tabula Rasa: New Songdo — Yumeng Chen

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

-So via reading the article, many mechanical devises or good design can take place of so called smart city, so that the city will use less energy and avoid of power cut, isn’t it?

-the urban plan group of building the smart city,  must be grouped of many people from different fields, is there a position that people who in this position will take care of the extra energy cost?

 

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?

 

-In my country, we usually have a five-year plan or fifteen-year plan, since the smart city is a very new concept, do we have a long time plan instead of roughly adding devices into the city saying making the citizens convenience?