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Smart Cities – Opportunities and Challenges

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  • Wednesday, 11 March 2020
  • 19:11 - 19:11
  • Duration: 12 mins
  • Publication date: 03 Jun 2020
  • Location: White Knights Campus, Henley Business School, Berkshire, United Kingdom
  • Part of event The Great Debate 2020 - Smart Cities

About the session

Professor Tim Dixon, Professor of Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment, University of Reading

The presentation will draw on existing research and practice to provide a critical review of smart cities in the UK and internationally, and what the opportunities and challenges are as this agenda takes hold. In particular, he will illustrate the key lessons that can be learned from smart city projects, including Reading 2050, and what can make a city both ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’.

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  • Reading 2050
  • Smart
  • Smart cities
  • Sustainable

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  • Professor  Tim Dixon

    Professor Tim Dixon

    University of Reading

    Tim has more than 35 years’ experience in education, training and research in the built environment, and has has co-led major UK research council research projects on brownfield land and urban retrofit, He is currently working with local and regional partners to develop a ‘Reading 2050’ smart and sustainable city vision, which also connected with the UK BIS Future Cities Foresight Programme. Recently he has worked on funded research projects on a smart cities and big data; smart and sustainable districts; and social sustainability for housebuilders. Tim is a member of the Climate Change Berkshire Group and Reading Climate Change Partnership Board and was formerly a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities and UK Stakeholders’ Group on Smart Cities. Amongst his recent and forthcoming publications are ‘Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment to 2050: A Foresight Approach to Construction and Development’ (Wiley Blackwell) and ‘Urban Futures: City Foresight and City Visions’ (Bristol University Press).
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