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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
Great Britain
â–Ą Overlook of Bristol
/ Bristol / Smart City A historic city beset by problems of
form of government. Bristol's innovative
congestion, an aging population, climate
approach to becoming a smart city is
change and energy resilience, Bristol is
based on people and not on technology:
making itself a place set apart by new
a Public-Private-People approach. It
initiatives. It voted to become one of the
has two primary aims: To contribute to
few cities in England to adopt a mayoral
the reduction of Bristol's CO2 emissions