{"id":10897,"date":"2025-09-12T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/10897\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:23:11","slug":"building-a-smart-city-from-scratch-is-easier-said-than-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/10897\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Smart City From Scratch Is Easier Said Than Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A world away from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-07-16\/india-s-mumbai-is-spending-billions-to-become-next-financial-hub-like-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">traffic-choked<\/a> streets of Mumbai where he lived and worked for 25 years, Mahesh Chhabria now begins his day with a run through his leafy new neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The 49-year-old fund manager\u2019s serviced apartment in GIFT City, an up-and-coming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2022-11-29\/which-city-will-be-next-singapore-or-dubai-new-india-finance-hub-has-big-plans?sref=ZhPa4CsM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">financial hub<\/a> in western India, is only a 10-minute drive away from the office. Freed from a tortuous commute, he\u2019s now enjoying a more relaxed lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A world away from the traffic-choked streets of Mumbai where he lived and worked for 25 years, Mahesh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,9111,11780,11781,146,11776,85,207,4426,46,11774,11777,11778,544,11775,11779],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-dispatch","tag-entertainment","tag-gujarat-international-financ","tag-il","tag-india","tag-infrastructure","tag-israel","tag-king-abdullah-economic-city","tag-mumbai","tag-narendra-damodardas-modi","tag-regulation","tag-smart-city","tag-weekend-edition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}