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Connected Urban Development: Green Tech for Cities

Posted on October 06, 2008

By Scott SmithThe sustainable future will be a networked future: technology will be the glue that binds the green city together. One voice among those pushing this idea comes from communication equipment giant Cisco, which is staking the claim that sustainable cities are not just about grass roofs and vertical farming, but about using the IT skeleton of the urban environment -- its web of communication systems, connected transport systems and networked living and working environments -- to tie the whole city together in an integrated, controllable, monitored community. As a step on this road t...

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