Indeed, with the inequalities between technological cities and non-technological cities, smart cities and non-smart cities, this may trigger new internal migrations and/or new urbanizations with all the associated negative social and environmental impacts (e.g., land consumption).
The innovations in these countries have greatly increased because of these interactions and have made big technological cities called technopolis and later innopolis.
"The City and the Stars begins in Diaspar, a super-technological city a billion years in Earth's future whose inhabitants maintain their longevity through what Clarke termed the Eternity Circuits, an early anticipation of nanotechnology.
In Europe during the same period of economic and technological change cities largely retained their primacy for the middle and upper classes, while the suburbs became the home of the working-class and poor.
The lamp lighters are part of a wider narrative that shapes every city: technological change.
And defying the usual pattern of wealthy patients benefiting first from technological advances, the city is starting with the poor.
Designed by Foster & Partners, a firm known for feats of technological wizardry, the city, called Masdar, would be a perfect square, nearly a mile on each side, raised on a 23-foot-high base to capture desert breezes.
Instead, carrying a Blackberry in his pocket and touting plans for a technological revolution in city government, he told voters a restructured local economy is the best medicine for what ails residents at all income levels.
With the rapid growth of a city, technological innovation has changed the patterns of people.
Through this neoliberal framework, market-led and technological solutions to city governance and development are prioritised.
In this respect, technological expansions of city infrastructure do not simultaneously imply improvements neither regarding sustainability issues nor the reduction of energy demand and increase in quality of life, wealth and benefit for the whole community [10].
