Smart city. Not yours.

I wonder what something like this plan for Holyoke, Cisco Plans to Make a Massachusetts City Smarter, Rather Than Build One From Scratch, would do for Worcester.
Granted, Worcester is a much larger city by a factor of four, so the project would be that much more complex. It may also be that Holyoke, being a poorer city, would show more dramatic improvement.
A lot of politicking, in the better sense of the word, goes into a project such as this, raising the issue of how well Our Fair City can articulate its value to potential corporate investors.
Is Holyoke a better place to live now? Probably not. Will Holyoke be a better place to live than Worcester? Could be.