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Forbes.hu reports about a Vienna-Budapest meeting that took place on 13 June. According to city developers, the experiences of the Austrian capital will be considered when developing the smart city strategy of Budapest next year.
Vienna was chosen as the most livable city again for the 9th time. Stella D. Bánlaki wonders whether Vienna is really the best choice for the title of the ‘city of the future and innovation’ and what Budapest has to learn from the neighbouring capital.
“I have asked a lot of Austrians in Vienna why they think this is so. In the meantime, deep down, I wonder why so many of my Hungarian friends did not like living here, and why they chose to return to Hungary after a few years.”
The announcement by Eurocomm-PR revealed a fundamental difference between the two cities after the meeting of chief architects, developers and innovators of both Vienna and Budapest. For Vienna, a smart city means being sustainable, livable and people-oriented. In Budapest, however, the term means something different for everybody right now.
The other big difference is that the smart city concept is implemented in every aspect of the development and management of Vienna.
In Budapest, on the other hand, the concept is slowly seeping in from below, through a few projects.
I have been to Vienna and also to Budapest, was married to a Hungarian for 61 years, a graduate of the Ludovika, and will take Budapest over Vienna anytime.
650,000 migrants and growing can’t be wrong. Austria has the money or at least did. Not sure about all the other ‘future’ claims though. Allah Akbar!
Budapest is better because we don’t have illegal migrants cluttering our streets. We don’t have troops on our streets either.
Budapest! No troops on the streets, no gimmegrants either.
No idea why Vienna is so rated so high. I’ll take Budapest any day over Vienna.