{"id":8,"date":"2024-04-03T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarksvillesma.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:13:55","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"What is a Smart City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/clarksvillesma.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Picture2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" style=\"width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Picture2.png 558w, https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Picture2-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"color:#ddd\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-spacer gb-block-spacer gb-divider-solid gb-divider-size-1\"><hr style=\"height:29px\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a Smart City?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart cities utilize technology and data to improve infrastructure, services, and quality of life. Common smart city goals include enhancing transportation, improving energy efficiency, reducing costs, and engaging citizens through digital platforms. Potential benefits include economic growth, sustainability, public safety, and a higher living standard for residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a growing city, we are not unfamiliar with transport and parking concerns, this is a natural part of expansion. Clarksville&#8217;s advantage is our city\u2019s forward-thinking in recent years and ability to implement functional solutions. Most of the success at these crucial points will be important to include residents and remain informed on demographics, public concerns, and interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics like affordable housing, access to Wi-Fi, road improvements, and school zones, amongst other pressure points, have been on residents\u2019 minds. Continued transparency and public awareness will be key moving forward and developing Clarksville from a \u201cSmart\u201d to a Brilliant city\u2014a place where we all not only want to work, stay, and play\u2013but can do it in convenient ways!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Smart City? Smart cities utilize technology and data to improve infrastructure, services, and quality of life. Common smart city goals include enhancing transportation, improving energy efficiency, reducing costs, and engaging citizens through digital platforms. Potential benefits include economic growth, sustainability, public safety, and a higher living standard for residents. As a growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":true,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":true,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":true,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-8","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksvillesmart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}