Smart Cities Are 90 % Sociology and 10 % Infrastructure

Abstract

Cities around the globe are not well prepared to become Smart Cities. Many of the challenges associated with getting Smart City projects going is currently related to traditional planning methodologies that make use of top-down master planning. Since Smart Cites are a relatively new and broad concept, it is necessary to engage the community at large and its entrepreneurial resources, to develop many of the aspects of community collaboration, business models, revenue and expense sharing agreements, and technologies that can be used to create real socioeconomic impact. As government observes the success of projects, it then becomes possible to plan on a larger scale across an entire metropolitan area. This section describes some of the key, overarching thoughts on leadership themes that surfaced and were developed during the course of this study and the development of this chapter.