No one knows exactly what the future will be like. The reality is that cities are polluted and overpopulated. According to experts, the time has come to create a new type of cities that will be smaller, more rational and cleaner.
Landscaping
If cities in the past were planned by architects, then cities of the future will most likely be based on ideas. Already there are many interesting projects dedicated to how cities should look in a few decades.
Some of these projects are based on the idea of landscaping. Design experts predict that cities will be overrun with electric cars and bicycles in the future. Thanks to this, the air quality in megacities will significantly improve, and residents will be able to open windows in their homes.
Green city visions often involve skyscrapers, where living rooms and office spaces coexist with hydroponic greenhouses or high-rise vegetable gardens and green roofs. Thus, there will be a further development of urbanization and, at the same time, a return to the agricultural roots of human civilization. In most modern megalopolises there is a very great need for such "greening".
Nerve center
The idea of the so-called "nerve center" is that absolutely all things should be connected with each other using the Internet and, thus, get the beginnings of artificial intelligence.
The network of sensors, according to the adherents of this idea, will provide the user with comprehensive information about what is happening in the city. This will allow different city services to interact and ultimately work more efficiently. Representatives of such companies as Siemens, IBM, Intel and Cisco believe that the cities that will be connected to such a network will become the most comfortable for life.
Possible problems
Large corporations are becoming particularly active participants in the development of urban infrastructure. Critics of their participation in such work argue that the city can quickly become "obsolete" relying only on computer technology.
Saskia Sassen, co-chair of Columbia University's Global Integration Committee and a leading expert on smart city development, holds office buildings dating back to the sixties as an example of such a phenomenon. The rapid development of building technology has improved the layout of buildings. Many buildings built at the end of the twentieth century have replaced these "concrete boxes".
Saskia is also convinced of the need to respect individual freedom and the role that citizens will play in the ambitious plans of IBM and other companies. It is very important to make the cities of the future better and, at the same time, take into account all the desires and needs of the people who will live in them.
