Bethune - Hauts-de-France, France
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PetjeOp
N 50° 31.299 E 002° 38.437
31U E 474524 N 5596694
The name of the city is written in large Letters in front of the train station in Betune.
Waymark Code: WM17PH8
Location: Hauts-de-France, France
Date Posted: 03/20/2023
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In front of the trainstation in Bethune you will see the name of the city in large letters. The colors of the letters are white and everyone is partly colored in green, purple, red and blue. The letters are standing on big a rectangular white block. At the bottom of the block you can read the words: 'smart city' in red. I think the name is ment as promotion but looks like sort of an artwork.
"Bethune is a city in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. The city is located southwest of Lille on the banks of the river Lawe. It is one of the most important cities of Artois."
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"What is Smart City?
In 2016, the City of Béthune officially launched into the Smart City. This approach aims to build the city of tomorrow, taking into account the current challenges of our society. The challenge is to make Béthune a collaborative, sustainable and innovative city.
Presentation of the Smart City approach
The city is a place of living, working, meeting and sharing which must constantly renew itself to adapt to the challenges and issues of our time: ecological transition, digital development, collaborative economy, better living together...
In Béthune, we have decided to meet these challenges by implementing a Smart City approach in order to build a new model of society adapted to the scale of an average city.
This Smart City, the face of the Béthune of tomorrow, is a city that improves the living environment of its inhabitants, optimizes the efficiency of its public service and leads the necessary change management.
It requires the involvement of everyone in this process (institutions, residents, associations, companies, academic world, etc.) to make Béthune a collaborative, sustainable and innovative city."
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