The Smart City, the New Home
Since the wide using of the internet, the city has massive changes. An increasing number of high-tech technologies and equipment begin to be used in the construction and management of the city, and building a smart city has become the ultimate goal of most managers. Although the smart city is no longer a new concept, there is no unified definition of a smart city.
On the one hand, some people think that technology and sciences are the core of the smart city. In the modern smart city’s architecture, high-tech electronic devices and algorithms play essential roles in collecting and analyzing a large number of data to guide the operation and development of the city (2). Many science fiction films also incorporate the city model into it, giving people a more real sense of how technology has changed people’s life. In 2018, the famous American film Marvel launched the popular film, Black Panther. In this film, the director also built a super-modern smart city.
However, unlike the smart cities built by many science fiction films, Wakanda in Black Panther not only has ubiquitous high-rise buildings and flying cars but more importantly, it preserves African customs and is full of traditional humanities. More people believe that real smart cities are not built by technology and science, but by those people who create technology (2). It is intelligent humans who make these technologies to benefit the development of cities. The characteristics of cities do not come from high technology, but from the people who live in the city. It is the residents who let the city radiate its vitality.
In conclusion, with the progress of science and technology, our life becomes more convenient, and the efficiency of the city is getting higher, but the residents are the core of a city. If only blindly pursue the use of technology to build cities, all the cities in the world will become the same high-rise buildings, and will no longer have their different characteristics in the end.
Reference:
Kitchin, Rob (2014). “The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism.” GeoJournal , vol.79, no.1,pp.1–14.
