Hyundai Motor Group Unveils Smart City Vision at Singapore World Cities Summit

The exhibition hall of Hyundai Motor Group at the 2022 World Urban Summit.
Photo by Hyundai Motor Group

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Hyun-seok] Hyundai Motor Group announced its smart city vision at the World Cities Summit.

Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 1st that it participated in the 2022 World Cities Summit held from the 31st of last month to the 3rd of this month at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and presented its smart city vision.

The World Cities Summit is a forum where city officials from around the world, as well as political, economic, and academic figures, gather to discuss issues for sustainable cities. It is held every two years, hosted by Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities and the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

Hyundai Motor Group exhibited a scaled model of the ‘HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model.’ Jiyoung Jo, Head of Innovation, attended the summit as a panelist and presented Hyundai Motor Group’s vision for smart cities. Jiyoung Jo said, “The HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model represents Hyundai Motor Group’s vision for a human-centered city,” adding, “Hyundai Motor Group will concretize the concept of a future city where technology and nature become one.”

The ‘HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model’ is a concept that materializes Hyundai Motor Group’s ideal vision of a future city. A Greenfield smart city refers to a city designed as a smart city from the initial planning stage.

Hyundai Motor Group established its future city philosophy through a smart city advisory panel composed of external experts and researched various solutions organically connected to the city, including not only mobility but also logistics, energy, and nature.

The exhibited ‘HMG Greenfield Smart City Master Model’ is the result of Hyundai Motor Group’s contemplation on the form of future cities. It features a honeycomb structure considering future scalability, with the aboveground designed for people and the underground designed for functions.

Key infrastructures such as logistics using autonomous mobility and eco-friendly energy facilities are located underground, leaving the aboveground as a human-centered space. The structure connects people and nature by ensuring that nature is within walking distance from anywhere in the city. Buildings are differentiated by use and density, with density decreasing closer to nature, allowing nature to be visible from anywhere in the city.

Hyundai Motor Group plans to continue research aimed at concretizing the master model and designing cities that are human-centered, coexist with nature, and embody a sustainable future.

Jiyoung Jo said, “Aerial mobility and ground mobility solutions will redefine city boundaries, connect people in meaningful ways, and revitalize cities,” adding, “Hyundai Motor Group plans to maintain close cooperation with governments worldwide to realize its smart city vision.”

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