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WHAT'S NEXT?: Smart cities are the talk of the town right now and so they should be to cope when over 60% of us will live in cities by 2030. E-bikes, Driverless- connected vehicles, buildings that talk to each other will help but many cities are susceptible to climate change and pandemics. Explore the issues faced by cities and the new ideas that will change the way urban dwellers live in the 21st century.

[New] Amazon will invest an incremental $1 billion to digitise micro and small businesses in cities, towns, and villages across India, helping them reach more customers than ever before.
[New] Dependent on a few factors, urban agriculture could provide an abundant and varied food supply for the 60% of people living in cities by the year 2030.
[New] Early impacts of CASE vehicles on people in Canada will be concentrated in urban areas.
[New] Some local officials are already escalating measures: a city in Hainan province put out posters warning that if people did not get vaccinated they would be blacklisted, and barred from public transport, receiving government subsidies and other benefits.
[New] Global emerging technologies in smart cities market will reach $6,580.8 billion by 2030, growing by 28.3% annually over 2020-2030 owing to growing urbanization & government initiatives, fast development of smart cities, and emerging technological advancements.
[New] As more cities and states begin to open alternative delivery / P3 offices around the United States, private developers look for opportunities with different methods, structures, and results.
[New] Close to 90% of Australians live in cities and towns and will experience climate change impacts from the perspective of an urban environment.
[New] Amtrak has suggested that, with $25 billion, it could greatly expand its network by 2035, adding 30 routes to cities currently unserved by intercity rail, like Las Vegas and Nashville, Tennessee, and improve service along 20 routes to cities like Houston and Cincinnati.
[New] If cities manage to improve public transit and phase out car use on their streets, in a few years they will not just have less pollution and lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
[New] In 2021, a number of cities will begin charging drivers to commute around an area to decrease the amount of pollution.
[New] The scale of China's urbanisation is staggering and offers huge opportunities for AV business.
[New] The American Jobs Plan includes $621 billion for transportation infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and transit, which could provide some opportunity to help the city pay for its cash-strapped, scandal-ridden project.
[New] The digital yuan is expected to be central to China's smart city ambitions, which would see entire cities made cashless in the coming years.
[New] The digital yuan is expected to play an important role in China's smart city plans, which will see whole cities go cashless in the coming years.
[New] The African continent is undergoing immense social and economic change, particularly regarding population growth and urbanization, where the urban population in Africa is anticipated to increase by a factor of 3 over the next 40 years.
[New] Since state agencies are considered a part of the State of Louisiana, no consumer use tax will be due on any purchases made from a remote retailer by a state agency.
[New] The inclusion of AI chipsets in security cameras in smart cities will become a norm, with over 65% of cameras shipped in 2025 expected to come with at least one AI chipset.
[New] Some cities, like New York, have a century-old transit system that is desperately in need of repair, such as by automating signals, which will speed up service and improve reliability.
[New] Research from McKinsey & Company and C40 Cities points to waste management as one of four key pillars that cities can take action on to reduce nearly all of their emissions by 2030.
[New] C40 Cities' newly released research confirms that green investment in global public transport systems will not only safeguard existing jobs, but will also create millions of decent, sustainable jobs and drastically cut emissions in the next decade.
[New] South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Systems is planning to build and deploy a constellation of 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit by 2030 to provide connectivity to urban cargo-delivery drones and passenger airplanes.
In the early twenty-first century, the concept of the smart city has been closely linked to one global vulnerability above all others - climate change.
Investment in smart city technologies is expected to reach $327 billion by 2025 (from $96 billion in 2019), according to 2020 research by consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.

Last updated: 10 April 2021

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