Smart City Engineering Flashcards
1
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Recall ten types of urban infrastructures, their state, purpose and vulnerability
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2
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Express five grand challenges and two distinct trajectories of smart city engineering
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Challenges:
I. Rapid urbanization and population growth
II. Traffic congestion
III. Pollution
IV. Social inequality
V. Old infrastructure that is not able to process new technologies
Trajectories:
3
Q
Explain barriers of smart city realization, criticize the smart city rhetoric and state why few Smart Cities examples exist in practice
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With large sums at stake there is a debate whether it’s better to upgrade existing cities or build new ones.
4
Q
Explain how Robotics, Geotechnical Engineering, Geophysics and Informatics support the construction of Smart urban life and mobility improvements
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