Smart Cities is probably one of the most exiting strategic issue about the vision of the city in the next future.
The concept has been already used by different communities who are operating with cities: governance, urban vision, e-Administration, transport mobility, electronic mobility …
The concept is going to take a new dimension with Energy and Environment constraints awareness. Please visit interesting papers from Urbanscale, The Guardian, Huffington Post, ABI Reasearch, Globserver …, most famous case like Amsterdam, Mannheim, Malta, Yokohama, Andalucia, Flanders, Cities in US … or interesting initiative like in Australia, Sense Smart City in Sweden …
The most advanced ambitious is probably Masdar. If digital issues are not on the front lines, they are present everywhere in the project with omnipresent Smart Grids including all energy systems, building management and user devices connected.
There are many European initiatives or projects around Smart Cities that gather Energy and ICT issues : Save Energy, Home Efficiency, Smart House-Smart Grids … Many information can be accessible on the European Smart Grid Platform. Eurocities has now a working group on Climate Change and Energy.
On our side, we propose a global approach that combines Sustainable City, Energy policy, Mobility and Digital Strategy. Thats our focus.
