How to make a city more liveable through design and technology? Smart City 2013 - International Design Exhibition, the main exhibition at Beijing Design Week 2013, provides some suggestions. Sun Yuanqing checks it out.

As another smoggy day dawns, Beijing is seeking solutions in a new direction: design.

Evolving from the traditional role, design is now being applied in smart city development as a more accessible way to integrate and present urban information, service and management systems.