Although in Mexico there is still no city that is classified as intelligent, the health crisis caused by Covid-19 has put on the table the need for the different cities of the country to bet on this model of urban development, only then can they face the new challenges derived from the pandemic, specialists and authorities assured El Economista.

For Marco Martínez, author of the Manual of Best Practices in Smart Cities of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the health crisis exposed the failures of traditional models of cities, which, for the most part, focus on the use of the car, they leave aside the guarantee of basic services, in addition they exclude care for the environment and the quality of life of the population.

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