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Cities must also look at other
methods of achieving sustainability,
including resource efficiency,
regenerating aging districts,
ensuring robustness of systems,
and incorporating design and
planning in harmony with their
natural ecosystem, as opposed to
simply living in them.

36 Corporate A smart sustainable city is typically Environment, ICT, Smart Cities:
defined as "an environmentally energy, resource Hitachi (2014)
conscious city that uses management,
information technology (IT) to efficiency,
utilize energy and other resources environment, values
efficiently." of citizens, desires of
In Hitachi's vision, a smart citizens.
sustainable city is one that seeks to
satisfy the desires and values of its
residents, with the use of advanced
IT to improve energy efficiency and
concern for the global environment
as prerequisites, and in so doing
maintains a "well‐balanced
relationship between people and
the Earth."

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