Editorial

摘要

There's so much talk at the moment about smart, connected or 'future' cities, it was refreshing in April to hear John Fox, managing director of Lucy Zodion, making the point that 'smart' in this context is, in many respects, a relative and rather fluid term. He cited Deepak Bhatia of the World Bank, who has argued that, for many, a 'smart' city will just be one with 24-hour electricity and water. He also highlighted how, to the Victorians, the innovation of gas lighting down Pall Mall would have been thought of as 'smart', as would from there, of course, have been the progression to electric lighting.