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The City of the Future

El Bacha Akram

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The city of the future - Green and Eco-friendly Environment

• Reduced CO2 emissions through eco-friendly cars and factories’ gas filters

• Increased plantation of trees on buildings’ tops and balconies

• Development of green electricity through solar power, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and chemical fuel pollution

• Green acting as a factor for improving health status, not only as decoration

• New projects for green parks as public places

• Social responsibility and commitment through increased awareness of facts and benefits

• Amplified Green environment orientation

The city of the future – 3D Printing

3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model

• Reduced waste of raw materials

• Less energy consumption

• Increased availability of resources

• Costs’ cutting

• Accessibility to everyone

• Eco-friendly use free of pollution

The city of the future – Economic Growth

• Advanced technology

• New available resources

• Specialization and division of labor

• More capital goods

• Stronger currencies

• Increased foreign direct investments

• Increased trades with imports and exports

The city of the future – Transportation

• Implementation of Air-propelled train

• Increased fabrication of hybrid cars; propelled by gas or electricity

• Emergence of the PRT vehicles; small vehicle technologies designed to carry four or less passengers on an elevated guideway, or at ground level, with off-line stations

• Development of flying cars

The city of the future – Communications & High-Tech

• Increased broadband speed

• Reduction in digital divide

• Expansion of networks and Internet

• Emergence of the “augmented reality” applications; allowing to view the world through a technological overlay and get information about what is being seen

• Expansion of touch screens to bathroom mirrors, tables, living-room windows…

• Appearance of the brain computers; capable of reading one’s thoughts

• Development of “Dream Modification”; capable of altering dreams so to set good moods when waking up

Conclusion

The city of the future should have;

• A high quality of life, supporting the health and wellbeing of its inhabitants

• Resilience to the impacts of climate change

• An attractive built and natural environments

A city’s economic, social and environmental progress will be ever more closely related to its technological progress.

Finally we will be able to speak of Smart and Green Cities