Lisa Gansky Quotes

Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

We recognize that we need more people to contribute to our vision for an intelligent city, a city of the future.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Of course we should harness IT to strengthen public protection and public service delivery.

We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment.