Smart City and City of the Future.

In the exemplar cities project, I found many new and innovative ideas that have contributed to the world’s “smart cities”. While many cities are utilizing the use of innovation labs and data collection to build their smart city. Oslo, Norway, has begun the construction of a small completely self-sufficient Smart City. In theory, it’s the “City of the Future.”(Kosowatz. J, 2020). A fully sustainable city located on 260 acres of land near their airport (2020). These small sustainable cities will run off sustainable energy that will run the city with sensors. The sensors will control the automatic lighting in streets and buildings as well as the security and waste systems (2020).

This sustainable city project will set the ground for new sustainable practice and set an example for cities around the world. Not only will this small-scale sustainable city help Oslo achieve its goal of reducing emissions to 0% by 2030, but it will also provide information and insight into what a fully sustainable city looks like. This sustainable city can then be used to research how we might be able to implement that in other cities to help achieve a global initiative for climate change.

This city stuck out to me amongst the five I research because of their focus on attacking climate change on their own. Their initiatives have the power to make a real difference in their community. As well, the actions they are taking are setting an example for other cities and giving them the opportunity to learn from the project they have produced.

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