In his state of the nation address last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa heralded the construction of a new 5G-ready smart city around Lanseria airport in the next decade. With it, SA was belatedly thrust to the front of a continent-wide rush to establish smart and eco-friendly cities, a means of jump-starting the fourth Industrial Revolution powered by digital technology.
On the face of it, smart city urban planning can be said to be the natural evolution of the tech hub boom and impressive digital infrastructural development witnessed across Africa within the last decade. Not burdened by legacy infrastructure — older technologies and infrastructure such as exists in the developed world — Africa has pole-vaulted straight into the digital age at pace.
The concept grew out of the rubble of the 2008 global financial crash and the downturn in urban property development. International property investment companies, hungry for new high-yield frontiers, found their appetite for speculative urbanism sat comfortably with the newfound visionary idealism of leaders across Africa, brought on by the advent of the tech boom.
It is questionable how committed private developers are to providing a decent stock of low-cost housing in these developments, where at best they seem to be an afterthought, as has been the case in the Kigali “smart neighbourhood” project Vision City.
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