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30 Corporate A "smart sustainable city" is one in Urban system ARUP (2011)
which the seams and structures of optimization,
the various urban systems are technology and
made clear, simple, responsive and design, informed
even malleable via contemporary citizens, citizen
technology and design. Citizens are contribution,
not only engaged and informed in efficiency,
the relationship between their interactive, adaptive,
activities, their neighbourhoods, flexible.
and the wider urban ecosystems,
but are actively encouraged to see
the city itself as something they can
collectively tune in, such that it is
efficient, interactive, engaging,
adaptive and flexible, as opposed
to the inflexible, mono‐functional
and monolithic structures of many
20th century cities.

31 Corporate Infrastructure, operations and Interconnected IBM (2014)
people. What makes a city? The systems, progress,
answer, of course, is all three. A infrastructure,
city is an interconnected system of operations, and
systems. A dynamic work in people.
progress, with progress as its
watchword. A tripod that relies on
strong support for and among each
of its pillars, to become a smarter
city for all.

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