![]() In a recent study, the OECD underlines that, in many parts of the world, cities have been at the forefront of shaping a post-COVID world by taking inclusive measures (especially for local business support and employment, affordable housing construction and renovation, and support to vulnerable households), and investing to pair economic recovery with environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on clean forms of urban mobility and energy efficiency. ![]() Although we have still not seen the last of the sanitary crisis, and are only experiencing the first tremors of the much more traumatic economic and social crises to come, we see ways in which cities, smart or not, will be affected and transformed. In a recent article 1, Francis Fukuyama even expressed the view that it would take years to identify the deeper consequences of the current crisis: “Future historians will trace comparably large effects to the current coronavirus pandemic the challenge is figuring them out ahead of time”. At the time of writing this report (September 2020), it is still too early to draw the lessons of this experience. Our viewof cities ingeneral, and of smart cities inparticular, has been confronted to the reality of a sudden pandemic. Over the last twelve months, much has happened. Preface This is the second edition of the IMD-SUTD Smart City Index Report. “The City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” ![]() “A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.” Smart City Index 2020 A tool for action, an instrument for better lives for all citizens. ![]()
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