This document discusses the need for a holistic approach to smart cities due to increasing global population, urbanization, and climate change pressures. It advocates developing an open urban platform test-bed to engage citizens and test technologies. The author proposes forming a Smart City Innovation Alliance to create an interoperable test-bed using an open standard like OneM2M. The alliance would integrate projects from EU H2020 Smart City Lighthouse projects that follow an integrated approach across areas like energy, mobility, ICT, and citizen engagement. The goal is to shape the urban ecosystem towards sustainability, circularity and avoiding negative impacts.
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