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42 Corporate A sustainable city is made up of Quality of life, Siemens (2014)
three (3) main parameters to make technologies,
sure that there is an overall authorities,
development of energy, health buildings, transport,
care, buildings, transport, and water.
water management in a city:
(i) Environmental care – With
right technologies, cities will
become more environmentally
friendly.
(ii) Competitiveness – With the
right technologies, cities will
help their local authorities and
businesses to cut costs.
(iii) Quality of life – With the right
technologies, cities will
increase the quality of life for
their residents.
43 Corporate As nations look to rebuild their Infrastructure, Patel,‐Hewlett
aging infrastructures and at the energy, IT, power, Packard (2014)
same time take on the challenge of water, waste.
global climate change, Patel argues
that resource usage needs to be at
the heart of their thinking. We
must also take a fundamental
perspective in examining "available
energy" in building and operating
the infrastructure.
Only if we use fewer resources to
both build and run our
infrastructures, he says, we will
create cities that can thrive for
generations to come. We can only
build in that way, he suggests, if we
seamlessly integrate IT into the
physical infrastructure to provision
the resources – power, water,
waste, etc. – at a city scale based
on the need.

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