Building Smart and Livable Cities

What is a smart city? How does ADB make smart cities? And how do smart solutions contribute to a vision of livable cities? Small steps such as digitizing land records, collecting and making use of urban data, as well as embedding technologies into a city’s urban planning can lead to big and substantial changes. This explainer video features the work of ADB's Technical Assistance on Promoting Smart Systems (TA 9170-REG) which explored how building smart systems, one step at a time, can redefine pro-poor urban development and improve quality of life in select cities in Asia and the Pacific.

This video was produced with support from the ADB technical assistance on Livable Urban Areas (TA 9220).