More cities, national governments, international organizations and transnational corporations are increasingly viewing the smart city concept as the base of sustainable growth, and the best solution for the challenges of world’s urbanization. China’s future “smart cities” are to become a main driver of its urbanization process, with 2 trillion yuan ($322 billion) set to allocated to more than 600 cities nationwide. The Japanese Government created a “FutureCity” with a goal to “construct sustainable cities with superior environmental technologies, core infrastructure and resilience all over the world…to advance the “Future City” model of urban planning with state-of-the-art environmental sustainability, strong disaster resilience and superb livability”. In its turn, the UK Government is aiming to help its cities to become more sustainable, interconnected and greener, organizing the Smart Cities Forum. In Europe, the European Commission established a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Smart Cities and Communities. Long time being a global leader in advancing sustainable communities and smart intelligent cities.. Currently, there are thousands of cities and communities trying to apply various smart technologies and sustainable solutions for improving the quality of communal environment, infrastructure, life and governance. On top of this, a number of innovative urban projects ab novo are currently being carried out around the globe in order to discover a core prototype model for future communities. In its top 10 Mega Trends, Frost & Sullivan predicts that over 40 Global Cities to be SMART Cities in 2020 - More than 50% of Smart cities of 2025 will be from Europe and North America, and China and India to see over 50 New “Sustainable” Cities (Top 20 Mega Trends and Their Impact on Business, Cultures and Society). To lead the global smart city and intelligent community market, Russia is in need to secure a comparable funding with China, getting it from the investment banks, sovereign fund and large businesses, as well as to create a high-level innovation culture and intelligent business environment. According to UNCTAD (2012) World Investment Report. Towards a New Generation of Investment Policies: “only 2 per cent of the $5 trillion in sovereign wealth fund assets has so far been invested in sustainable development projects”, but mostly involved in no value-added financial speculations, contributing to the global financial crisis. Embarking on the sustainable growth track, Russia’s going for future investment projects, as building its first intelligent model community (Skolkovo Innovation Center) to exceed $15 billion. This bold enterprise is to be added with the announced multibillion infrastructure projects,integrating the Trans-Siberian Railroad into Euroasian Rail Network with industrial and business hubs along the way. This gives a great opportunity for creating sustainable communities and smart cities in a large scale like the China's projecting in its national planning 2011-2015: We advise Russian regional leaders and city mayors to resort to our corporate services to transform their territories as more attractive, liveable and sustainable, using our unique knowledge and expertise to create smart sustainability strategies and intelligent community management systems and smart city governance platforms, like we are doing for the Med cities: . For more link to:
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