Connected sustainable cities

Connected sustainable cities, which will evolve over the next decade, employ ubiquitous, networked intelligence to ensure the
efficient and responsible use of the scarce resources - particularly energy and water - that are required for a city's operation,
together with the effective management of waste products that a city produces, such as carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
Through a series of prospective scenarios, Connected Sustainable Cities illustrates some of the ways in which inhabitants may use and manage their living spaces, move around the city, work, shop, pursue their educational, cultural, and recreational interests, and make well informed, responsible personal choices. These scenarios are accompanied by brief sketches of the existing and emerging technologies, products( and systems that will support new, infelligently sustainable urban living patterns. In addition, there are short discussions of some of the theoretical, policy, and design issues that these scenarios raise. Connected Sustainable Cities is a starting point for the investigations and debates that will be necessary as citizens, technologists, esigners, policy experts, and political and business leaders begin to shape the new urban areas we urgently need to create in the near future.