Global Mobility Call 2024 launched this week with a series of sessions and panel discussions on the future of sustainable mobility.

Louis Zacharilla, founder of the Intelligent Community Forum, led a session titled ‘Urban Regeneration: The Soul of the City and New Urban Paradigms’. The session focused on urban spaces, the ‘soul’ of the city and how cities can improve quality of life for their inhabitants whilst integrating sustainable infrastructure and mobility practices.

Although technology plays an important part in the transformation of cities into dynamic, inclusive ‘smart cities’ through factors such as traffic management, surveillance, street lighting, parking and carbon emissions monitoring, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) stresses that joy also has a significant role in bringing out the soul of a city.

Louis Zacharilla:

“A smart city has at its heart a device, or a technological invention. Call it broadband or IT. An Intelligent Community has at its heart a soul. And that soul is designed for human joy.”

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