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Smart City 3.0 Citizen Co-Creation Driving Next Generation of Smarter Cities.

The 3 Generations Of Smart Cities

Smart cities are getting more and more attention in the media, from technology companies and entrepreneurs, and increasingly from both local governments and civil society. On one hand, smart cities hold the promise to potentially make the growing number of cities around the globe more efficient, more tech-savvy, more wired–and with all that, they can hopefully improve the quality of…

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The Value of Incorporating Accessibility and Inclusion into Smart Cities From the Start

The Value of Incorporating Accessibility & Inclusion into Smart Cities From the Start

  The city nearly drowned. In the warm days of mid-June, about 160 years after the old river town was incorporated, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was hit with the worst flood in its history. One of those 500-year floods that no one thinks they’ll ever see. The kind of flood that evokes allusions to Noah, or Katrina. The Cedar River swelled…

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