Smart Cities

Future Proofing Smart Cities Building-by-Building with Open Data Platforms

“Today we hear about the smart city, the sustainable city, the green city, the resilient city, the diverse, inclusive, dynamic, creative and caring city. All these buzzwords are thrown around but in the end, it’s all the same. Strategies to prepare cities for the future,” Ahmed Abu Laban, City Director for the city of Ramallah, Palestine, told Memoori. “To launch a strategy is a big achievement but the most important challenge is to implement the results, activities and recommendations of that strategy.” Memoori met with Abu Laban and his counterparts from cities around the world at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2019 (SCEWC19) in Barcelona, Spain, at the end of November to discuss the role of buildings in achieving our urban future-proofing initiatives. Each building within the city has unique challenges that come together with other factors to shape that’s city’s unique urban challenges. Yet cities and buildings in different cities have so much […]

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