A smart city needs to be more than a utopian vision. It needs to be a decision framework, applicable for every city to solve its individual problems. This requires an administration that can flexibly and quickly adjust processes and make decisions. Why today’s cities can’t act smart (yet) City administration is historically seen as the...
A smart city isn’t and can’t be a global answer to urban problems due to the variety of challenges. But a smart city can change and accelerate the way of finding the right solution to a problem. This is by changing (also digitalizing) the decision-making – i.e. the administration’s – structures and processes. Cities’ problems...
Global trends force cities to handle their challenges with individual strategies and solutions. In one city, these solutions come in the form of robots, others still struggle with functioning sanitary facilities. Instead of focusing exclusively on “smart cities”, we will examine the actual measures cities take to get fit for the future. One trend affects...
Today, maybe more than ever, digitalization plays a crucial role in our everyday life. It affects us on both a small scale e.g. for our mobile internet connection, and on a larger scale e.g. cities and their future development. There are different approaches to dealing with the role of digitalization in cities. One famous approach,...
That is actually quite easy to answer: No, they do not make Berlin a smart city. And why is that? The aim of this blog article is to explain briefly our perspective on the smart city and thus to explore how Uber’s Jump bikes fit into this concept.