Future Small, Competitive and livable City which overcomes current unsustainability and leads future civilization.
Future City
The current large city-centric system accelerating unsustainability caused by structural contradiction of industrial society.
Seeking small, competitive and livable future city that can overcomes unsustainability through new digital technologies.
Small, competive and livable future city equipped with measures to secure competitiveness and quality of life, surpassing large city.
Leading the future society and future civilization by forming a network of small, competitive and livable future cities where citizens create its own communities
The current industrial society, which has created a prosperous mass society based on mass production and mass consumption, is facing contradictable unsustainability for the same reasons. Metropolises optimized for industrial society are accelerating this unsustainability. The high density that has enabled urban growth is now a main cause of unsustainability, leading to increased travel times, energy use, and costs.
Digital opens up new urban possibilities. Digital can provide essential city functions such as telecommuting, telemedicine, and tele-education to citizens in a sustainable way. In this way, almost all urban functions such as cultural experiences, administration, shopping, and banking, can be serviced digitally, becoming part of digital living infrastructure. This paves the way for the development of small, competitive and livable future cities.
Although a small, competitive and livable future city is a small city with a population of around 10,000, it ensures citizens’ quality of life by digitizing the functions of existing large cities. In addition, it secures competitiveness comparable to existing large cities by specializing in a specific industry and creating a city + industry + academia converged city creative platform connected with that industry
The small, competitive and livable future city is a community city, with selections made based on the consensus of its citizens; It will form a network of cities that provides synergies in quality of life and competitiveness, leading future social change and future civilization with a quality of life and competitiveness beyond existing large cities.