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Are you interested in why the smart city is complete rubbish?

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We are starting our 2nd birthday celebration today!!!

Our summary today works with the presentation titled Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The Smarter City Flywheel from 2023 by yours truly, Fanni Melles, presented at several companies as a result and evolution of my PhD research.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the smart city idea can be useful for practice. This presentation investigates the history of smart cities and the potential evolution from there.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 things:

1. There is no the smart city definition and shouldn’t be one.
2. Smarter cities imply the always evolving nature of cities,
3. while smarter approaches can be even more useful for practice. Since cities are already present, our approaches can be smarter, establishing a smarter approach or smarter city flywheel.

What can we do today toward the better and smarter future for our cities, and consequently our grandchildrens’ grandchildrens?

1. Let’s help everyone understand that we don’t need THE smart city because cities are different in nature and one global idea cannot cover and assist cities in their quest to improve.
2. Let’s expand our thinking from smart cities to smarter cities and smarter approaches which depend upon each location and direction – for example, extending our thinking from resilience to antifragility on that spectrum.
3. Let’s help each city find its flywheel and smarter approaches. In this way, we can create the better future for our cities and humanity.

You can find the presentation through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• ⁠⁠⁠No.003I – Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast⁠;
• ⁠⁠⁠No.156I – Interview with Fanni Melles, about the future of cities⁠;

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