{"id":13829,"date":"2015-03-26T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13829"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:56","slug":"smart-cities-built-on-emerging-tech-is-indias-latest-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/smart-cities-built-on-emerging-tech-is-indias-latest-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Smart Cities Built on Emerging Tech is India\u2019s Latest Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Anitha Vadavatha and Anish Mohammed\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/anitha\/\" rel=\"author\">Anitha Vadavatha and Anish Mohammed<\/a> \u2014 SingularityHub<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">The world is urbanizing\u2014and fast. Why are cities so popular?<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">They\u2019re where the opportunities are. In 2014, the world\u2019s 300 largest cities accounted for 20 percent of the world\u2019s population and nearly half of global output. It is estimated that growing cities could bring nearly $30 trillion a year into the global economy by 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P3\">As we rapidly urbanize\u2014and 70 percent of urban growth takes place in emerging economies\u2014understanding cities becomes critical. How can we, for example, improve livability and resource management? Manage disease and sanitation?<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/03\/19\/smart-cities-built-on-emerging-tech-is-indias-latest-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anitha Vadavatha and Anish Mohammed \u2014 SingularityHub The world is urbanizing\u2014and fast. Why are cities so popular? They\u2019re where the opportunities are. In 2014, the world\u2019s 300 largest cities accounted for 20 percent of the world\u2019s population and nearly half of global output. It is estimated that growing cities could bring nearly $30 trillion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55457,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829\/revisions\/55457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}