Smart Ways Cities Connect the Data (not the Dots) You’re a smart person. In fact, you became the whole person you are today through an ongoing learning process enabled by synaptic connections in your brain. And, because “learning organizes and reorganizes the brain,” that process improves over time. You’re much smarter today than you were, say, as a teenager. Similarly, a city can make use of connections—data connections—to become a smart city. As every city includes the use of infrastructure systems, these data connections allow the city to operate smarter and with more efficient processes that improve the functionality and resilience of their infrastructure – from the transportation systems we rely on to get across town, hydrologic systems that move storm water and prevent flooding, and the sustainable use of land on which we build – helping to improve how people interact with the built environment every day. BIM is an intelligent 3D model-based process that gives…