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Can Smarter City technology measure and improve our quality of life? | The Urban Technologist

Can Smarter City technology measure and improve our quality of life? | The Urban Technologist
Can information and technology measure and improve the quality of life in cities?
That seems a pretty fundamental question for the Smarter Cities movement to address. There is little point in us expending time and money on the application of technology to city systems unless we can answer it positively. It’s a question that I had the opportunity to explore with technologists and urbanists from around the world last week at the Urban Systems Collaborative meeting in London, on whose blog this article will also appear.