Councillor Patrick McGlinchey, convener for infrastructure, regeneration and economic development, said: "This event will see the public, designers and specialists working together, 'hands on', to prepare a long-term vision for Dumbarton Rock and its surroundings, with the ideas translated into plans and drawings.
A Smart City can be viewed as an urban innovation and transformation that aims to harness physical infrastructures, Information and Communication Technologies ICTT), knowledge resources, and social infrastructures for economic regeneration, social cohesion, better city administration, and infrastructure management [1].
Cities around the world regularly play host to contentious urban developments, whether it's costly infrastructure, large-scale regeneration projects or luxury housing schemes.
Numis analyst Howard Seymour said: "A significant shift away from the public sector is taking place as the group also develops greater integration of its operations into infrastructure, maintenance and regeneration markets and will underpin profits in the short term ahead of recommencing growth in 2013 and beyond".
A further £1 billion in "regeneration" infrastructure upgrades, already pencilled in by the Treasury, would be brought forward for the 2012 deadline.On March 15th Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, made a long-expected admission that the real bill would bear little relation to those figures.
On these conditions, land planning can help to set restrictions on areas subject to natural and man-induced hazard, and on environments of special landscape or cultural value; plan for a lower-impact maintenance of infrastructure; and support regeneration programmes for deteriorated or disused buildings.
We need a national infrastructure bank to drive regeneration.
"I've sat with civic and business people saying, 'Isn't this fantastic, the cultural regeneration and infrastructure we've done?' But the minute resources were scarce, culture remained at the bottom of the list".
She backed the decision to relax the target for reducing the deficit and said the "fiscal give" it would bring could cushion against some of the economic uncertainty, but urged a commitment to investment in infrastructure, as well as regeneration and skills.
Chancellor George Osborne subsequently provided financial help to explore options for river crossings and generate infrastructure projects to boost regeneration in east London.
Much of its infrastructure is derelict despite government regeneration funding.
