With social and environmental challenges growing in urban areas, and mobility, infrastructure, and digital systems failing to keep up with citizen and business expectations, cities need to act now to harness AI and other emerging technologies to become future ready. To help urban leaders develop implementation roadmaps for the future, ThoughtLab, a leading global research firm, has joined forces with a broad group of business, government, and academic leaders to launch a comprehensive benchmarking study examining the strategies and investment plans of 250 cities to meet future citizen and local business needs.
This landmark study, titled From Future Vision to Urban Reality, provides city leaders with a valuable playback for successfully implementing their long-term visions and plans. It explored how cities in different locations, and with varying populations and income levels, are reinventing themselves across the urban environment—from infrastructure, mobility, and energy to public safety, health, sustainability, and education. The data-driven research provided actionable insights into nine key urban initiatives:
· Harness AI and other emerging technologies
· Unlock the full power of data
· Design infrastructure fit for future purpose
· Develop people- and planet-centric mobility
· Innovate through wider ecosystems
· Achieve sustainable development goals
· Build resilience for a riskier world
· Ensure citizen buy-in, trust, and equity
· Find new funding avenues and business models
· Building an AI-empowered city
As a companion to this year's full report comes this series of City Profiles, focused on 'Capturing the future'. Inside are 12 in-depth city case studies, revealing the ins and outs of global city projects, how cities are innovating and adopting emerging technologies, and the work they're doing to become more resilient against their most pressing challenges, while continuing to serve their communities.
The 12 cities profiled in this edition represent a local governments and city authorities from around the world, of various sizes and levels of economic development. The cities are:
A coalition of leading urban experts
The research coalition for From Future Vision to Urban Reality consists of:
· Global businesses, including support from sponsors Axis Communications, Deloitte, FTI Consulting, GM, Intel, Itron, ServiceNow, and Wireside Communications.
· Multilateral organizations, including the World Bank.
· Associations and think tanks, including ANBOUND, Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), Fiware, Resilient Cities Network, Open Sustainability Collaborative, SmartCitiesWorld, and United Cities
· Academic institutions, including Arizona State University, IESE Business School, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences, and University of Southern California
· Government and transportation leaders from Almaty City, Barcelona, Bucaramanga, Cary, Chicago, Clark County, Dublin, Kyiv, Los Altos Hills, New York, Philadelphia, Trondheim, and others.
>> Find out more, please go to:
From Future Vision to Urban Reality
https://thoughtlabgroup.com/from-future-vision-to-reality/
eBook: From Future Vision to Urban Reality
https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/ebooks/ebook-from-future-vision-to-urban-reality
ThoughtLab Future-Ready City Profiles 2024: Capturing the future
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