CAMBRIDGE , US
SUSTAINABILITY
“ MODULAR SENSOR BOXES THAT WILL BE INSTALLED AROUND CHICAGO TO COLLECT REAL-TIME DATA ON THE CITY ’ S ENVIRONMENT ”
— Marga Hoek , Non Executive Director and author of The Trillion Dollar Shift
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CAMBRIDGE , US
The city of the future will combine sustainable initiatives with the use of ICT and advanced technologies . Around the 1990s , as the digital revolution came up to speed , it was often assumed digitalisation would mean the death of cities but the opposite is the case . Smart , intelligent cities , that have sustainability at the heart of development , are considered to be a great place to live . Digital innovations can thrive , although they still have too little scale around the world . A great example is to be found in Cambridge , Massachusetts , which we can describe as an internet of pipes . A team of MIT researchers have developed a system
Chicago ’ s Cloud Gate
SEPTEMBER 2019