"THE PLANNING MANUAL FOR BUILDING TOMORROW'S CITIES TODAY"
I came across an unusual topic in the lecture few weeks ago, it gave me the idea of the importance of planning before develop a city. As an architecture student and a future architect, the planning manual for building tomorrow's cities can affect the impact of environmental and our future generation.
What is smart city? Smart city is an urban development vision to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and internet of things (loT) technology in a secure fashion to manage a city's assets. It is promoted to use urban informatics and technology ti improve the efficiency of services.
Our cities can be livable, workable and most importantly more sustainable with the right planning and investment - for both economically and environmentally. A successful smart city create a better quality of life for the city residents, which provide a comfortable, clean, healthy and safe lifestyle. When our city is livability, it will enhance the economic development as well, by accelerating the job opportunity and the fundamental infrastructure services that compete in the world economy.
Back in my country - Malaysia is not a successful smart city yet, the government should creating awareness activities which enable a better understanding of the city dynamics in an effort to move forward on smart city initiatives. Many designers started to design with a vision but always conquered by the physical design, resulting unclear vision and in a mess between engineering and architectural ideas which is impossible to implement.
So many city systems, services and infrastructures are connected with one another, therefore the connection between smart city responsibilities cannot be overlook. Dependent on progress is being made in one another to become a smart city in an area. It is important to consider how improvements to the performance of a single responsibility may affect a city becoming smart, as the city develop in a long term goals and plans.
In conclusion, life is better in a smart city, it provide high quality of lifestyle to the people and better for businesses. Thinking as a whole in advance in the smart city planning process will help avoid unexpected deprivation to the future generation.
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