MIT - Mobile Experience Laboratory
Connected Sustainable Cities
What are connected sustainable cities?
Connected sustainable cities employ ubiquitous, networked intelligence to ensure the efficient and responsible use of the scarce resources – particularly energy and water – that are required for a city’s operation, together with the effective management of waste products that a city produces, such as carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
This book
This book describes daily life in the connected sustainable cities we can expect to evolve over the next decade. It does so through scenarios that illustrate some of the ways in which inhabitants may use and manage their living spaces, move around the city, work, shop, pursue their educational, cultural, and recreational interests, and make well informed, responsible personal choices.
These scenarios are accompanied by brief sketches of the existing and emerging technologies, products, and systems that will support new, intelligently sustainable urban living patterns. In addition, there are short discussions of some of the theoretical, policy, and design issues that these scenarios raise.
Connected Sustainable Cities is a starting point for the investigations and debates that will be necessary as citizens, technologists, designers, policy experts, and political and business leaders begin to shape the connected sustainable cities that we urgently need to create in the near future.
Connected Sustainable Cities Book
Also refer to www.connectedsustainablecities.org for further information on the book.