From smart to smarter cities

Cities are reaching a crisis point. City populations are growing.¹ Citizen satisfaction with government services is weakening.²

And net zero deadlines are looming. Cities recognise that their traditional approaches to city planning, development, management and renewal will not get them to their goals in time.

They must become smarter, more integrated, data-driven and enabling.

From smart to smarter cities explores how a focus on becoming more integrated, data-driven and enabling can help city decision-makers, infrastructure leaders and private companies accelerate their smart city agendas.

From smart to smarter cities

This report is aimed at city decision-makers, policy makers, infrastructure leaders and private companies who share the view that cities must move quickly from smart to smarter to help humanity solve today’s most pressing challenges.

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In this report, professionals from KPMG’s global network join with experienced industry and city leaders to unpack these three priorities – integrated, data-driven, and enabling – across the lens of the six key challenges facing cities today:

Urban planning, infrastructure, and technology
Data and privacy
Transportation and mobility
Sustainability and social equity
Governance and oversight
Funding and financing

As the world faces multiple interrelated challenges, it is in City Halls, on city streets and in city business districts that humanity’s destiny will be decided.