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== Fab City ==
Fab City has been set up to explore innovative ways of creating the city of the future.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fab.city |title=Fab City Global Initiative. Until cities produce (almost) everything they consume. |access-date=21 October 2024 |publisher=SA Fab City Foundation |date= |location=Tallinn, Estonia}}</ref> It focuses on transforming and shaping the way how materials are sourced and used. This transformation should lead to a shift in the urban model from 'PITO to DIDO' that is, 'product-in, trash-out' to, data-in, data-out'.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fab.city/uploads/whitepaper.pdf |title=Fab City Whitepaper Locally productive, globally connected self-sufficient cities |access-date=2020-09-24 |archive-date=2020-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107233618/https://fab.city/uploads/whitepaper.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> This can eventually transform cities into [[Self-sustainability|self-sufficient]] entities in 2054; in line with the pledge that [[Barcelona]] has made.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fab.city/about/ |title=What is the Fab City Global Initiative? |website=fab.city}}</ref>
The Fab City links to the fab lab movement, because they make use of the same [[human capital]]. The Fab cities make use of the innovative spirit of the users of the fab labs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/fab-city-how-can-we-build-more-sustainable-cities/ |title=Fab City: how can we build more sustainable cities? |first=Toby |last=Baker |website=nesta.org.uk |date=21 November 2016 |location=London, UK. |publisher=Nesta}}</ref>