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Smart Cities

5.1 Informational Objectives

This chapter answers the following questions:

• What is a smart city?
• What objectives can be addressed by a smart city?
• What steps can be taken toward implementing a smart city?
• How can smart city investment activities be coordinated?
• How can the effects of smart city investments be evaluated?
• What challenges and opportunities are associated with smart cities?
• What Is the Sentient City concept?

5.2 Chapter Word Cloud

As provided in previous chapters, Figure 5.1 shows a word cloud for this chap-
ter, with fonts for each word proportional to the frequency of use of that word.

5.3 Introduction

The term smart cities has become increasingly popular over the past 10 years.
Figure 5.2 shows growth in the interest in smart cities (dark gray) compared to

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