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Episode 3
52minutes.

Cities of Tomorrow - Smart Cities

Episode 2/3

Synopsis

London, Paris, Shanghai…: the major historic cities are relying on the latest technological innovations to accommodate ever more inhabitants. How far will they go in terms of computerized management of our collective lives?

At a time when traditional energy resources are dwindling, cities like Hamburg and Paris are betting on smart grids or intelligent networks, which make it possible to analyze household consumption in real time and adjust production. Optimizing the movement of pedestrians and cars is also one of the priorities of large cities, which are increasingly congested.

While self-service bicycle or electric car systems are gradually being implemented around the world, metropolises like London are using digitalization to streamline traffic. By modeling the crossings of passers-by at the Oxford Circus intersection in London, a computer engineer has paved the way for a redesign of pedestrian routes.

Pushing the logic even further, Shanghai's smart communities are digitizing the lives of city dwellers, from their purchases to their medical examinations and their voluntary activities.

 

Renowned economists such as Jeremy Rifkin, thinker of the "energy internet", and protest urban planners like Adam Greenfield, clash around these new perspectives: hyperrational, 100% sustainable and perfectly safe, "smart cities "make it possible to streamline all sectors of urban life, while awakening the fear of the Orwellian nightmare.

 

 

The Serie : Cities of Tomorrow will reveal this exciting and fast-moving race against the clock to ready ourselves for this new urban reality. It will explore a range of extravagant, utopian and fantastic futuristic projects in a wide range of areas to illustrate concrete prototypes offering actual solutions that are applicable now. The series will take the viewer on a trip around the globe to discover the most innovative, emblematic and fascinating of these urban experiments, , through three episodes. 

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