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Solutions, Areas of improvement, Problems - Coggle Diagram
Solutions
- Now head over to Barcelona where one research firm estimates the city will save billions of dollars a year in energy costs just by installing some of the technologies
- solve urban problems using technologies
- to build and enable a leading digital city
- real practical life applications of technology
- to put a sensor into a parking space
- a combination of sensor arrays feeding back to a central point where we can agrigate that data and do things with it
- to install air quality sensors to analasy the particulates
- they built a school that floats by using cheap and available materials
- in Manila they turn water bottles into solar light bulbs
- In Singapore where 80% of the population lives in subsidised high-rise housing the goovernment charges citizens higher taxes for the social costs of car ownership and plans to build a carless city
- use solar pannels and atmospheric generators to extract clean drinking water from humid air
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Problems
- very finite resource of clean drinking water
- tons of traffic, its problem and air pollution it causes
- Over the next 20 years that equates to 2 million more people living in the cities. Cities are not well prepared for that, so we are in a tough sppot globally
- As a number of city dwellers rises, so do problems like overcrowding, pollution, housing shortages and aging infrastructure
- we're packed in living in dense quarters
- flooding is an issue in Macoco
- mega cities were built around the cars
- the crisis caused water shut offs since 2014