Ok, This is not to be an entertaining note
so, I d write the byline for the last at first!!
Which
third class journalists did they hire to write this note on “smart cities”?!!
Honestly, I went through the forty six page document!!
Friends who can- please go through the whole document!! For others:
- “A Smart city is
one that has the following:
: Competiveness
: Sustainability
: Quality of life “
Hmmm. Aren’t all cities to be these & more?
- “ The general appearance of the “smart city” has to be pleasing & Clean. Page 9.That’s all that Urban design is about?
- “A 100 Mpbs
internet backbone coupled with 100% coverage of all the area by cell phone
towers and a high level of telephone penetration will be essential to a
smart city as most services will have to be offered online.”
Page 12.
Your maid & driver is certainly not living
here!!)
- “ Good
entertainment facilities make the people in a city happy” Page 13.
Is there a definition
to this jingoism?!!)
- “ a self
healing smart grid” page 16.
Here is the agenda of the technology
companies!!
- “The HPEC (
high powered expert committee!!-) has calculated the costs to be Rs. 43386
PCIC ( per capita investment cost) over twenty years!!” page 23.
Not bad!! But
considering the private companies are going to invest most of all this, be
ready to be sucked back!!
- The CRF (
citizen reference framework)!! Page 25.
It’s a lot of fun to
read!! Also that they are going to take in the aspirations of residents of the
city, who actually are in the future!!)
- The guideline
benchmark of population density is 175 pph on high transit links!! Page
34. “spatial planning”
There is a book on urban
planning by Rangwala that can be referred!!)
9. & the only thing
worth reading is the definition of the smart city by IBM as “ One that makes optimal use of all the
interconnected information available today to better understand and control its
operations and optimize the use of limited resources” Page 32.
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