The question of who is to lead a global market of future cities is getting a critical meaning. Russia’s global competitors are actively pursuing large Smart City programmes. European Union is aggregating all resources around the European Innovation Parthership on Smart Cities and Communities: Japan's advancing the "FutureCities" Initiative to secure a leading position in emerging global market of smart cities: Following the India Vision 2020, one of the largest emerging economies is embarking on an ambitious $90 billion two-phase industrial program to build new industrial cities as smart, sustainable cities of the future, along a territorial corridor, spanning six states, connecting two capitals, Delhi and Mumbai, and affecting 14% of India’s population. Conceptualized with the Government of Japan, the DMIC program master plan is mostly focusing on deploying next generation technologies and road/rail/air connectivity and infrastructure linkages, with 24 economic nodes, investment regions and industrial areas. The goal is to expand national manufacturing and services base, becoming a "Global Manufacturing and Trading Hub”, minimizing green growth and social development programs. In its Five-Year National Planning, China’s future “smart cities” are to become a main driver of its urbanization process, with 2 trillion yuan ($322 billion) to be allocated to more than 600 cities nationwide. Still, most big nations approaches largely consist in requesting the standard urban planning, fragmented services from the increasing army of urban planners and architects, operators and exporters of smart city technologies, products and services, which SMART Russia is to avoid: (SMART RUSSIA)
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