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From Sustainable to Smart Cities

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Sustainable Cities: A Cleaner Future

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For the past few decades, there has been an urbanisation trend around the world, where more and more people are moving to cities. Since 2009, the UN Habitat estimates that over 3 million people are moving into cities every week. Urban areas have been an attractive destination for migrants in hopes of finding a better job and a higher standard of living.

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While migrants contribute immensely to the economies of cities,  ever-increasing populations raise issues of congestion, distribution of resources, and increased pressure on waste management infrastructure, healthcare, and education. By 2050, it is estimated that 70% of the world’s population will live in cities which makes the concept of Sustainable Cities an efficient resolution to the growing population.

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Therefore, Sustainable Cities have an essential role in the urbanisation trend to improve residents lives by focusing on environmental initiatives and projects such as limiting CO2 gas emissions in the air, using renewable energy sources, or bringing awareness to environmental issues. With outdoor pollution killing over 3 million lives yearly, mostly in cities, it is evident that urbanisation can increase the environmental effect upon cities. Many cities around the world have redesigned their city planning strategies and commenced initiatives to target these issues directly.

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The map below, created by GreenMatch, highlights Arcadis’s Top 40 Sustainable Cities around the Worldtheir current projects and environmental goals:

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This table key ranks the Top Sustainable Cities in order:

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#1Zurich87.9%
#2Stockholm87.1%
#3Geneva86.0%
#4Vienna84.5%
#5Frankfurt84.1%
#6Wellington81.1%
#7Rome79.4%
#8Sydney77.3%
#9London76.5%
#10Hamburg76.4%
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Arcadis’s Sustainable Cities Index Information & Evaluation

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Arcadis, a leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets, composed a list of 100 Sustainable Cities around the World that have engaged in initiatives, projects and other forms to resolve the effects of urbanisation on the environment.

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The city evaluations for Arcadis’s Sustainable Cities Index are based on three themes: People, Planet, and Profit. Greenmatch decided to filter the results and look into the Planets‘ theme’s score for the top 40 cities. A city is evaluated into 7 categories under the Planet theme, then the scores are averaged.

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Sustainable Cities Moving Forward

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According to Arcadis’s Index, Zurich takes first place with a total score of 87.9%. Zurich has initiated several projects that earned them first place such as their long-term goal to becoming a 2000-watt society by 2050. Another project was the Green City Zurich project that aims to preserve and increase all green spaces. These difficult goals are feasible when their government allocates investment fundsfocuses on energy efficiency, renewable sources, and increasing the public’s awareness on sustainability

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Another city who has had a strong impact in combating climate change for its residents is Sydney. Coming out in the top 10, Sydney began the Sustainable Sydney 2030 initiative to reduce the city’s carbon emissions by 70%. This goal will be beneficial for its residents because the quality of breathing air will improve along with reviving dying ecosystems. In addition, Sydney envisions a Smart City for the future to help improve public transportation, bring its citizens together and overall make the city more sustainable.

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City planners, politicians and other organisations have designed many of the core sustainability projects and initiatives for cities; however, many ideas have been rooted from the public. For example, Rome, ranking 7 in Arcadis, began the Participate 3- Year Project that allows citizens to contribute to possible resolutions for urban problems. Sustainable and innovative solutions like this allow for the public to engage in the transformation of their cities and develop effective resolutions.

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Although sustainable cities are a great way to combat urbanisation issues, Smart Cities go further by improving the quality of lives through better communication technologies and efficiency of urban operations while enveloping sustainable cities core values.

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The Transition: Sustainable to Smart Cities

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Imagine: Walking out of your home at 6:15 AM and you begin to drive to the inner city for work. Through the congested traffic on the freeway and street, you manage to arrive at the inner city by 7:15 AM. However, you must now spend the next 30 minutes looking for an available parking space, leaving you less than 15 minutes to arrive in the office.

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Now, for many of you, this scenario is a daily occurrence of your life and this causes frustration, stress, and difficulty to continue. However, for the past few years, many cities have begun their Smart City transformation in order to address these urbanisation issues and help its residents live a more efficient, happy, and comfortable life. 

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What is a Smart City?

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According to the Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), “a smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information and communication technologies and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects.”

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If you would reimagine the scenario with Smart City applications, your daily commute can be reduced by half. By incorporating smart devices, you can optimise traffic, find open parking spaces, and make your life less stressful. The United Kingdom has been noted to take a strong interest in transforming their cities in becoming smarter. Take a look at the map below, created by Greenmatch, that highlights the Top 17 Smart Cities in the UK that made it on Huawei’s UK Smart Cities Index.

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This table key ranks the Top UK Smart Cities in order:

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#1London80.5%
#2Bristol80.2%
#3Birmingham77.9%
#4Glasgow75.1%
#5Manchester74.2%
#6Milton Keynes72.5%
#7Leeds70.5%
#8Peterborough68.2%
#9Nottingham51.8%
#10Sheffield38.1%
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Huawei’s UK Smart Cities Index Information & Evaluation

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Huawei, a leading provider of global information and communication technology solutions, released the UK Smart Cities Index highlighting 17 UK cities that have been transforming their city to tackle the enlarging urban issues. 6 out of the 40 cities in Arcadis’s Sustainable Cities Index also ranked in the Top 17 Smart UK Cities and have shown considerable achievements towards their development. However, how did they land on this ranking?

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The city evaluations for Huawei’s UK Smart Cities Index are based on two dimensions: Strategy and Execution. Each dimension is split into five categories and these individual scores are summed to get the average between the two scores. In Huawei’s UK Smart Cities Index, the score of the ranking is split between Leaders, Contenders, and Challengers. Then, there are seven cities that are Followers, who are taking steps for their city’s transformation.

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Smart UK Cities: Think Forward, Think Smarter

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Although London ranks 9th in Arcadis’s Sustainable Cities in the World, London ranks 1st in Huawei’s UK Smart Cities Index. London ranks as the 1st place leader for its significant strategies and executions with an overall score of 80.5. London has initiated several new projects such as the London Datastore, which is Free Open Data Access, that brings information to the public and engages with new users. In addition, the city is currently pursuing a Low Carbon Capital strategy to reduce carbon emissions by 60% by 2025 against the 1990 levels. Through the insertion of city traffic sensors, parking sensors, and alternative modes of transportation, the city can significantly reduce wasted time and achieve these environmental goals.

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Following London, Bristol earned 2nd place with an overall score of 80.2. The push for a central digital hub for each smart city is a necessity in order to engage a wider audience and utilise datasets to innovate efficient solutions. Bristol began a data sharing program in order to engage with its residents and pool in new ideas to tackle other urban problems. Another project that they began was to manage their energy use with an energy company, Bristol Smart Energy City. They’ll optimise the usage and distribution of energy for the city. This will help reduce the loss of fossil fuels and will make 100% renewable energy using cities a possibility.

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The emergence of smart vehicles is becoming a reality each day and cities across the world are slowly piloting their cities to test these new transportation vehicles. The ambitious city, Milton Keynes, is 1 of 4 cities in the UK to pilot autonomous cars. Since 2015, they have been testing these vehicles and seeing how it been able to integrate with other transportation systems. Alongside with utilising autonomous vehicles, Milton Keynes is very active in the IoT(Internet of Things) movement for smart cities. They began to incorporate sensors into recycling bins, parking spaces, people presence and even soil moisture in parks. These small projects will help reduce congestion of vehicles on the road, increase green spaces, and attract more people to be outside.

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The Future of Smart Cities is Now

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Problems in this world will never end or diminish, they’ll simply evolve and grow. However, if cities around the world share their ideas, goals, and dreams then we can learn to resolve these challenges together. Although Europe seems to be the leader in the transformation of Smart and Sustainable Cities, there are cities all over the world who have taken necessary steps to help this planet.

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Here is a full list of the total Sustainable and Smart Cities from Arcadis’s and Huawei’s Index

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ContinentNumber of Cities
Africa4
Asia23
Australia5
Central and South America6
North America22
Middle East8
Europe37
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While Europe holds about 35% of the total cities engaged in Sustainable and Smart City projects, the other 65% of the cities in this compiled list has initiated into notable projects. For example, in Asia, making up about 21% of the cities, Seoul is engaged in 139 projects in 13 districts with aims to transform the urban metropolis into a comfortable, safe, and efficient community. Cities like in Dubai, in the Middle East, has had a growing problem with pollution but, launched their Integrated Energy Strategy Action plan to reduce energy demand by 30% by 2030. In return, they’ll have lower levels of wasted energy and fossil fuels.

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Read more: World’s Greenest Countries

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These ambitious projects are opportunities to learn from one another and, if possible, apply in one’s own city to advance forward together. Cities will continue to grow, people will continue to come, and Smart Cities will continue to be necessary to manage the environmental, economic, and social effects of urbanisation. If you want to see changes in your city, navigate through Greenmatch’s two maps, learn about Huawei’s UK Smart Cities Index or Arcadis’s World’s Sustainable Cities Index and, start your city transformation today.

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从可持续到智能城市

可持续的城市:一个更清洁的未来

在过去的几十年里,已经有一个城市化趋势在世界各地,越来越多的人搬到城市。自2009年,联合国的栖息地估计在300万人每星期搬进城市。城市是一个有吸引力的移民目的地,希望找到一份更好的工作,更高的生活标准。

农民工为城市的经济贡献极大,不断增加的人口增加的问题交通拥堵,资源分配,增加了废物管理基础设施的压力,医疗保健,教育。通过2050年据估计,70%世界人口会让生活在城市的概念呢可持续发展的城市一个有效的解决不断增长的人口。

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因此,可持续的城市有一个重要的角色在城市化趋势通过专注于改善居民的生活环境等计划和项目限制二氧化碳气体的排放在空中,使用可再生能源,或对环境问题的认识。室外污染每年造成超过300万人的生命,主要是在城市里,很明显,城市化增加对城市环境的影响。世界各地的许多城市重新设计他们的城市规划策略和开始计划直接针对这些问题。

下面的地图,由GreenMatch,强调了Arcadis最高40可持续的世界各地的城市,他们当前的项目和环境目标:

这个表关键可持续城市进行排名的顺序:

排名1 - 10 排名11 - 20 排名21 - 30 排名31 - 40

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排名 城市 分数
# 1 苏黎世 87.9%
# 2 斯德哥尔摩 87.1%
# 3 日内瓦 86.0%
# 4 维也纳 84.5%
# 5 法兰克福 84.1%
# 6 惠灵顿 81.1%
# 7 罗马 79.4%
# 8 悉尼 77.3%
# 9 伦敦 76.5%
# 10 汉堡 76.4%

Arcadis可持续城市索引信息和评估

Arcadis,全球领先的设计与咨询公司对自然和建立资产,由一个世界各地的100个可持续城市列表有从事计划、项目和其他形式来解决城市化的影响对环境。

市评估Arcadis可持续城市指数是基于三个主题:人,地球,和利润。Greenmatch决定筛选结果和调查行星”主题的分数前40名的城市。一个城市评估7类在地球的主题,然后平均分数。

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可持续城市前进

根据Arcadis的指数,苏黎世需要的总分第一名87.9%苏黎世已开始令它们最初的几个项目,如他们的长期目标成为一个吗在2050年2000瓦的社会。另一个项目是绿色城市苏黎世项目旨在保护和增加绿色空间。这些困难的目标可行的当他们的政府分配的投资基金,关注能源效率,可再生来源,增加公众的意识可持续性

另一个城市在应对气候变化有强烈影响的居民悉尼。出来的前10名,悉尼开始了可持续2030年悉尼倡议城市的碳排放减少70%。这一目标将为当地居民因为是有益的呼吸的空气质量将会改善随着振兴垂死的生态系统。此外,悉尼设想一个智能城市未来的帮助改善公共交通,使其公民在一起,总让城市更可持续。

城市规划者、政治家和其他组织设计的许多核心城市可持续发展项目和计划;然而,许多公众的想法已经根深蒂固。例如,罗马,排名第七在Arcadis,开始了参与项目3年允许公民为可能的解决城市问题作出贡献。这样的可持续发展和创新的解决方案允许公众参与城市的改造和发展有效的决议。

尽管可持续城市是一个伟大的方式应对城市化问题,智能城市更进一步提高生活的质量通过更好的通信技术城市运营效率而包络可持续城市的核心价值观。

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过渡:可持续到智能城市

想象一下:走出你的家早上6:15和你开始开车去市内工作。通过拥挤的交通在高速公路和街道,你能到达市中心15点。但是,你现在必须在接下来的30分钟寻找一个可用的停车位,让你不到15分钟到达办公室。

现在,对于很多人来说,这个场景是一个每天你的生活出现这原因挫折,压力,困难继续。然而,在过去的几年里,很多城市已经开始他们的智能城市转型为了解决这些城市化的问题,帮助当地居民生活更高效、快乐和舒适的生活。

智能城市是什么?

根据智能可持续城市的焦点小组国际电信联盟电信标准化部门(ITU-T)”一个聪明的可持续发展的城市是一个创新的城市吗使用信息和通信技术和其他手段改善生活质量,城市运营效率和服务,和竞争力,同时确保它满足现在和未来的需求一代又一代的对经济、社会和环境方面。”

如果你想重新定义的场景智能城市的应用程序,可以减少日常通勤一半。通过将智能设备,您可以优化交通,找到开放的停车位,让你的生活压力较小。英国已经指出,强烈的兴趣转变他们的城市变得更聪明。看看下面的图,由Greenmatch,凸显了在英国最高17智能城市使它在华为的英国智能城市指数

这个表主要英国顶尖聪明的城市排名顺序:

排名的领导人 排名的竞争者 排名的挑战者 排名的追随者

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排名 城市 分数
# 1 伦敦 80.5%
# 2 布里斯托尔 80.2%
# 3 伯明翰 77.9%
# 4 格拉斯哥 75.1%
# 5 曼彻斯特 74.2%
# 6 米尔顿凯恩斯 72.5%
# 7 利兹 70.5%
# 8 彼得伯勒 68.2%
# 9 诺丁汉 51.8%
# 10 谢菲尔德 38.1%

华为的英国智能城市指数信息和评估

华为全球信息和通信技术解决方案的领先供应商,发布了英国智能城市指数突显出17个英国城市,改变他们的城市解决城市问题扩大。6 40城市Arcadis可持续城市指数排名中也名列17聪明的英国城市,对他们的发展显示相当大的成就。然而,他们降落在这个排名如何?

英国城市评估华为的智能城市指数是基于两个维度:战略和执行。每个维度分为五个类别和这些个人成绩总结得到平均两者之间的分数。在英国华为的智能城市指数得分排名是分离的领导人,竞争者,挑战者。然后,有七个城市追随者为他们的城市,他们正在采取措施转变。

聪明的英国城市:向前,认为更聪明

虽然伦敦排名第九世界上在Arcadis可持续的城市,伦敦排名第一在英国华为的智能城市指数。伦敦排名的第一名领袖因其重要的战略和执行的总分80.5。伦敦已经发起了几个新项目等伦敦数据存储,这是自由开放的数据访问,带来的信息向公众和吸引新用户。此外,这个城市正在追求低碳投资策略到2025年减少60%的碳排放1990年的水平。通过插入城市交通传感器,停车传感器选择运输方式,可以显著减少浪费时间和实现这些环境的目标。

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在伦敦,布里斯托尔获得第二的地方以总分的80.2。推动一个中央数字中心对于每一个智能城市是a必要性为了吸引更广泛的受众和利用数据集创新高效的解决方案。布里斯托尔开始数据共享计划为了与当地居民和池在其他新的想法来解决城市问题。另一个项目,他们开始与一家能源公司管理他们的能源使用,布里斯托尔智能能源城市。他们会优化城市能源的使用和分布。这将有助于减少化石燃料的损失,将100%的可再生能源使用城市的可能性。

的出现智能汽车每天都成为现实,在世界各地的城市正在慢慢驾驶他们的城市来测试这些新的交通工具。雄心勃勃的城市,米尔顿凯恩斯,是1的4城市在英国自动驾驶汽车的试点。2015年,他们一直在测试这些车辆和看到它如何与其他运输系统集成。同时利用自动车辆,牛仔裤是非常活跃的物联网(物联网)运动智能城市。他们开始把传感器垃圾箱,停车位,人们甚至存在土壤水分在公园。这些小项目会有所帮助减少交通堵塞汽车在路上,增加绿色空间外,并吸引更多的人。

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智能城市的未来就是现在

在这个世界上永远不会结束或减少问题,他们会简单地发展和成长。然而,如果世界各地的城市分享他们的想法、目标、和梦想我们可以学会解决这些挑战。尽管欧洲领导人似乎在聪明的转型和可持续的城市,有世界各地的城市采取必要措施来帮助这个星球。

这是一个完整列表总数的可持续和智能城市Arcadis和华为的指数

大陆 一些城市
非洲 4
亚洲 23
澳大利亚 5
中美洲和南美洲 6
北美 22
中东 8
欧洲 37

而欧洲持有约35%总数的城市从事可持续和智能城市项目,其他65%的城市在这个编译列表发起了著名的项目。例如,在亚洲,占21%的城市,首尔从事139个项目13个区与目标将城市大都市到一个舒适、安全、高效的社区。像在迪拜这样的城市,在中东,有一个日益严重的问题污染但是,发动了综合能源战略行动计划减少能源需求30%通过2030年。作为回报,他们会有低水平的浪费能源和化石燃料。

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这些雄心勃勃的项目正在互相学习的机会,如果可能的话,在自己的城市一起向前推进。城市将继续增长,人们将继续来,和智能城市将继续是必要的管理环境、经济和社会城市化进程的影响。如果你想看你所在的城市的变化,导航通过Greenmatch两个地图,了解华为的英国智能城市指数或Arcadis全球可持续的城市指数,今天开始你的城市转型。

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