{"id":73633,"date":"2017-11-03T03:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/transforming-cities-with-technology"},"modified":"2017-11-03T03:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:02:30","slug":"transforming-cities-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/transforming-cities-with-technology","title":{"rendered":"Transforming cities with technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hRY-ZUlJXY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/econ.trib.al\/rWl91R7\">http:\/\/econ.trib.al\/rWl91R7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 2050, two thirds of the world\u2019s population will live in cities. Urbanisation is happening faster than at any time in human history.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, 900 million people are living in slums. Cities can\u2019t add housing fast enough. Today, an estimated one billion vehicles are already bringing urban areas to a standstill. Cities consume three-quarters of the world\u2019s energy each year and are responsible for around 50% of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>These are challenges our cities have been facing for decades.<\/p>\n<p>But now some city leaders, businesses, and even citizens, are taking new approaches to tackling these old problems. They\u2019re transforming their cities with technology.<\/p>\n<p>In Seoul, the use of data is seen as the key to tackling some of the big challenges of city life \u2014 like moving its people around. City workers here use sophisticated technology to understand and transform how the city \u2014 and its metro \u2014 can be run. The subway system transports 7 million people every day. It\u2019s widely regarded as one of the best in the world. And the entire network from wheels to workers is driven by data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/transforming-cities-with-technology\">Continue reading \u201cTransforming cities with technology\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http:\/\/econ.trib.al\/rWl91R7 By 2050, two thirds of the world\u2019s population will live in cities. Urbanisation is happening faster than at any time in human history. Globally, 900 million people are living in slums. Cities can\u2019t add housing fast enough. Today, an estimated one billion vehicles are already [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73633","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}