At Memoori, over the past few months, we have been exploring the development of the Smart City from a new perspective, an organic development of a city, inspired by its inhabitants. Last December we talked about the evolution of the Smart City from the bottom-up rather than a top-down system, which has been prevalent around the world. We equated the Smart City to the Internet and Smartphones, which became the global phenomenon we see today by fashioning themselves as a platform upon which the public could create the sites and apps that shape their direction. This organic, albeit messy, approach fosters their popularity, their usefulness and their profitability. At the beginning of March we warned of the dangers of rushing the development of Smart Cities, and how that could cause more problems than it solves. How every city is vastly different and trying to apply the same Smart City model to each is destined for […]