{"id":89983,"date":"2019-04-26T01:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/building-the-smart-cities-of-the-future"},"modified":"2019-04-26T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:02:39","slug":"building-the-smart-cities-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/building-the-smart-cities-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Building the smart cities of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-the-smart-cities-of-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is the first part in a series on smart cities. See more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurithmic.com\/author\/christinewong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Christine Wong<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Smart cities are coming under siege.<\/p>\n<p>In Songdo, South Korea, clusters of concrete high-rises sit empty, waiting for an influx of foreign workers that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/life\/2018\/06\/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas-smartest-city\/561374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"> hasn\u2019t materialized<\/a>. The $40 billion smart city, which was to be completed last year, is only 70 percent finished. Just 100,000 people live in Songdo so far, well short of its target population of 300,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurithmic.com\/2019\/03\/06\/building-smart-cities-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is the first part in a series on smart cities. See more from Christine Wong. Smart cities are coming under siege. In Songdo, South Korea, clusters of concrete high-rises sit empty, waiting for an influx of foreign workers that hasn\u2019t materialized. The $40 billion smart city, which was to be completed last year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89983","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}