How To Make A City Smart? Start With The Well-Being Of Its Citizens | With Bill Pugh And Dr. Jonathan Reichental

At its core, a Smart City is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across the world. The movement to create smarter cities is still in its infancy, but ambitious and creative projects in all types of cities―big and small―around the globe are beginning to make a big difference.

New ideas, powered by technology, are positively changing how we move humans and products from one place to another; create and distribute energy; manage waste; combat the climate crisis; build more energy-efficient buildings; and improve basic city services through digitalization and the smart use of data. 

Balancing leading-edge technology to optimize the way a city operates and a clear driven vision for improving the quality of life for people is not an easy task. If it was easy, maybe everyone would be able to do it. Many other factors can throw things off balance:  regulations, budgets, cultures, public opinions, legacy plans and technology, and of course, politics.

There is no simple question to this level of complexity. Still, complex concepts and problems can be broken down into simpler ones, so that more people can get involved and educated about the possible presents actions and the future scenario that smart cities can bring to us, humans.

Our guest, Dr. Jonathan Reichental, is the perfect person to have join us as we explore the initial understanding of these concepts. He is writing about this topic, connecting with other experts around the world, and his mission is simple: educate.

He is also the former CIO for the City Of Palo Alto, California (yes, cities have a CIO!).

He has a book out called Smart Cities for Dummies, and this is precisely what we use as a starting point for our conversation with him and our friend and co-host Bill Pugh.

Stay with us, and together we may be able to begin our understanding of what it really means to create smarter cities.

Enjoy.

Guest(s)
Dr. Jonathan Reichental

Co-Host(s)
Bill Pugh

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