scholarly journals The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Palmyra Repette ◽  
Jamile Sabatini-Marques ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Denilson Sell ◽  
Eduardo Costa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Since the advent of the second digital revolution, the exponential advancement of technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments and societies to seek ways for their cities to become more humane, ethical, inclusive, intelligent, and sustainable. In recent years, the concept of City-as-a-Platform was coined with the hope of providing an innovative approach for addressing the aforementioned disruptions. Today, this concept is rapidly gaining popularity, as more and more platform thinking applications become available to the city context—so-called platform urbanism. These platforms used for identifying and addressing various urbanization problems with the assistance of open data, participatory innovation opportunity, and collective knowledge. With these developments in mind, this study aims to tackle the question of “How can platform urbanism support local governance efforts in the development of smarter cities?” Through an integrative review of journal articles published during the last decade, the evolution of City-as-a-Platform was analyzed. The findings revealed the prospects and constraints for the realization of transformative and disruptive impacts on the government and society through the platform urbanism, along with disclosing the opportunities and challenges for smarter urban development governance with collective knowledge through platform urbanism.

A Holistic Assessment of Education City in Doha

2018 ◽  
pp. 228-247
Author(s):  
Ali A. Alraouf
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Holistic Assessment ◽  
Education City ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Qatar, while developing its vision for the future, decided to adopt the knowledge economy as the new pillar for its economy and development. The chapter focuses on examining the impact of the one of the main and iconic national mega project in the capital Doha, the project named Education City (EC). The chapter scrutinizes EC's contribution to a more resilient future for Qatar. The chapter assesses the relative roles of such an influential project in preparing or hindering Qatar's moving towards the post-carbon paradigm. The project is examined using multilayered criteria, which include achieving urban diversity, relevance to knowledge-based urban development, supporting the diversification of the local economy, and accommodating multicultural society. The chapter concludes that education city is the most crucial urban projects in Qatar geared towards sustaining the knowledge economy as it creates ripples of change, knowledge dissemination, and a culture of innovation and creativity within the city.

scholarly journals Knowledge-Based Smart City Service System

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 965
Author(s):  
Giuseppe D’Aniello ◽  
Matteo Gaeta ◽  
Francesco Orciuoli ◽  
Giuseppe Sansonetti ◽  
Francesca Sorgente
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Service System ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

A smart city can be defined as a city exploiting information and communication technologies to enhance the quality of life of its citizens by providing them with improved services while ensuring a conscious use of the available limited resources. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for the smart city, namely, the Smart City Service System. The framework proposes a vision of the smart city as a service system according to the principles of the Service-Dominant Logic and the service science theories. The rationale is that the services offered within the city can be improved and optimized via the exploitation of information shared by the citizens. The Smart City Service System is implemented as an ontology-based system that supports the decision-making processes at the government level through reasoning and inference processes, providing the decision-makers with a common operational picture of what is happening in the city. A case study related to the local public transportation service is proposed to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the framework. An experimental evaluation using the Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT) has been performed to measure the impact of the framework on the decision-makers’ level of situation awareness.

scholarly journals Develop an Integrated Conceptual Model to Determine Ecological Buffers in Urban Streams

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Sarang ◽  
Behnam Andik ◽  
Mojtaba Ardestani ◽  
Farnoosh Moradizadeh Kermani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Urban Streams ◽  
Urban Nature ◽  
The Government ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
The City

Abstract For many years, buffers are playing an important role for protecting as well as exploiting urban streams environment. In 40s & early 50s Tehran with 5 urban streams which flow from northern mountains to southern deserts of the city had been created unique aesthetic nature. At that time no specific environmental regulatory implemented by the government but since lack of any disturbing population and any urban development, the urban nature was self protecting. But in recent decades a huge development occurs leading to impaired streams which no conventional buffers such as static quantitative buffer zone and qualitative buffer zone. This paper is deeply investigating ecological restoration and promoting a new conceptual model as ecological buffer zone for Urban Streams. This buffer is agile, dynamic, and variable in both stream directions (longitudinal and latitudinal) consist of many layers such as biological (both fauna and flora), geotechnical, artificial infrastructure buffer, legal, historical, social, economical and etc Layers. If this model properly implemented longtermly will protect current urban nature and even enhance the environment eventually, partially, and gradually reverse to their historical natures. Ecological should be tailored for each individual river and stream based on few rules, tools and techniques. The paper is based on three years extensive research study for all 5 major urban streams in Tehran and implementing on Farahzad upstream specifically. It elaborates how to define different above-mentioned layers and finally how to integrate all together. EB has been currently implemented in Tehran urban streams by the municipality.

scholarly journals Urban Development Index (UDI): A Comparison between the City of Rio de Janeiro and Four Other Global Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 823
Author(s):  
Rafael Molinaro ◽  
Mohammad K. Najjar ◽  
Ahmed W. A. Hammad ◽  
Assed Haddad ◽  
Elaine Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
The City

One of the methods to assess the urban development of a city is to allocate indicators that quantify its efficiency in performing various functions, such as urban mobility, security, sustainability, and economy, among others. The motivation of this work is the fact that the city of Rio de Janeiro, although widely known and admired around the world for its natural beauty, has a wide negative notoriety regarding its urban functionality. There is a critical need for investment in the city’s infrastructure in order to improve the quality of life of its population. The novelty of this work is in proposing an index that quantifies the urban functionality of the city of Rio de Janeiro and that represents urban development. The research focuses on optimizing investments in infrastructure and hence increasing the urban performance offered by the city of Rio de Janeiro. In the proposed methodology for modeling the Urban Development Index (UDI), this work presents the model structure made from a knowledge-based urban development assessment model (KBUD/AM), the determination of the indicators, the selection of the cities, the data collection from primary and secondary sources and the use of statistical techniques for data normalization and scaling. The research aims to quantify, compare and evaluate the level of urban development of Rio de Janeiro, performing benchmarking with other four global cities (Stockholm, Shanghai, Boston, and Cape Town). Cities are ranked for their UDI to make the comparison more straightforward. Based on the results, Rio de Janeiro ranks second to last among the five cities studied, with an UDI of 0.395, only slightly better than Cape Town. The results confirm that the city of Rio de Janeiro has several deficiencies, especially in the education, safety and health sectors, and is very far from most of the other developed cities. The city of Rio de Janeiro should promote investments in research and development. Finally, this work confirms that Rio de Janeiro must tackle security problems as a matter of priority.

Developing a Conceptual Framework for Knowledge-Based Urban Development in Isfahan, Iran

2019 ◽  
pp. 490-508
Author(s):  
Marjaneh Farhangi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Effective Factors ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The City

We have witnessed vast economic, social, technological, and environmental changes that have influenced patterns of urbanization. Through all these years urban planning has also experienced major reforms. During last two decades, with emergence of knowledge economy, it is claimed that the nature of urban development has changed; this new notion of development is called knowledge-based urban development. As there is not clear methodology for directing cities development process, this chapter aims to formulate a conceptual model for cities leadership towards knowledge-based urban development. This chapter considers the city of Isfahan, Iran as a case study. Finally, a model is proposed according to literature review and using ANP method for analyzing the data gathered from the context. This conceptual model has also prioritized effective factors for KBUD.

Developing a Conceptual Framework for Knowledge-Based Urban Development in Isfahan, Iran

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjaneh Farhangi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Effective Factors ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The City

We have witnessed vast economic, social, technological, and environmental changes that have influenced patterns of urbanization. Through all these years urban planning has also experienced major reforms. During last two decades, with emergence of knowledge economy, it is claimed that the nature of urban development has changed; this new notion of development is called knowledge-based urban development. As there is not clear methodology for directing cities development process, this chapter aims to formulate a conceptual model for cities leadership towards knowledge-based urban development. This chapter considers the city of Isfahan, Iran as a case study. Finally, a model is proposed according to literature review and using ANP method for analyzing the data gathered from the context. This conceptual model has also prioritized effective factors for KBUD.

scholarly journals Features of historical developmentof the urban environment of the city of Algiers in the period 1830-1962

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Meriem Bouriche ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Spatial Changes ◽  
Old City ◽  
The City

The article examines the main stages of the historical and urban development of the city of Algiers, particularly its growth and urban changes during the period from 1830 to 1962. Starting from the early 1830-s., Algiers became the scene of major construction activities carried out in accordance with the French idea of the development of the city which was to become the capital of the French colony.There were two directions of development, namely, construction on the territory of the «White City» (Kasbah) and construction outside the Ottoman fortifications, on free land areas. Construction activities on the territory of the old city led to irreparable losses of the urban environment. During this period, the historical part of Algiers underwent profound social, economic, cultural and spatial changes. The new districts were built in accordance with the style trends existing in this period in Europe.

scholarly journals MALAYSIA RESILIENT INITIATIVES: CASE STUDY OF MELAKA INTO RESILIENT CITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Syafinar Jamaliidin ◽  
Noralfishah Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Cyber Attack ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Asia experienced 70% of all the disasters in the world and there is no indication that this will decline in the future. The disaster experienced by a city is mostly caused by the combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, social-economic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber-attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak. The crisis fallen upon a city has captured attention of many audiences, thus in order to conquer the issues, city needs to be resilient in order to face and overcome the situation. Melaka was declared as a world heritage site and the government are taking serious efforts in order to maintain its heritage site by making it a resilient city. This article discusses the policy related initiatives taken by Melaka in preparing the city into resilient state. This is done by using literature and document analysis method on relevant reports, policies and literatures. The output of the research would be beneficial to the state of Melaka in the context of local authorities preparing strategic directions and managing urban development in order to become a resilient city.

scholarly journals ACCESSIBILITY ASSESSMENT: TRAINING THE SLUM RESIDENTS IN SCALING THE ‘ACCESSIBILITY’

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-5 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
A. Phadke
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
City Space ◽  
The Government ◽  
Open Data Kit ◽  
The City ◽  
Complicated Nature

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> With almost half of the developing world turning ‘urban’, it becomes a major challenge for the local self-governments to assure availability and accessibility of basic infrastructural facilities to citizens at affordable rates. The issues of accessibility become especially complicated in the cities of Global South as ‘accessibility’ is highly politicized and governed by various forces that shape social, cultural and economic hierarchies. The city space not only experiences spatial segregation but also a peculiarly linked social segregation that runs along ethnic identities creating conditions of social and economic polarization at not only macro level as well as at micro levels within slums that house lower income groups (LIG) and economically weaker sections (EWS). The conditions of inaccessibility decisively affect the wellbeing of these groups leading to erosion of social and mental wellbeing. The effective implementation of various welfare schemes also mostly remains inadequate due to the highly complicated nature of ‘inaccessibility’ and lack of transparency.</p><p>For effective implementation of various welfare schemes, the government has already moved towards ‘e-governance’. Ironically, the use of ‘smart’ technology remains restricted to higher income groups and the LIG and EWS gets excluded again due to lack of knowledge. In fact, these sections of urban population who suffer absolutely due to conditions of ‘inaccessibility’ need to be trained and involved in measuring the levels of accessibility and improving access to various basic infrastructural facilities. The paper will attempt at introducing a module that is based in simpler technologies like ODK (open data kit) and Quantum GIS to train the slum residents in mapping the accessibility vis-à-vis basic infrastructural facilities and improve the accessibility through positive deliberations with the local selfgovernments.</p>

scholarly journals Défis et enjeux de la gouvernance locale au Cameroun à l’ère de la décentralisation : cas de la ville de Garoua

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Simon Pierre Petnga Nyamen
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Système D’Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

RésuméLe Décret N°2007/115 du 23 avril 2007 portant création de nouveaux Arrondissements au sein de certains Départements du Cameroun traduit a priori la volonté du Gouvernement d’insuffler une dynamique nouvelle à son processus de décentralisation. À partir du cas de la ville de Garoua, ce travail traite des défis et enjeux de la gouvernance locale dans un contexte d’accélération du processus de décentralisation en vue d’un développement maîtrisé. Pour ce faire, des échanges avec vingt-six informateurs issus de l’administration publique et privée, douze chefs de quartier et trente des plus anciens habitants de Garoua ont été mené. En plus, on a eu recours à une centaine d’informateurs et guides, qui ont permis de caractériser trois cent cinquante-cinq marqueurs spatiaux de la dynamique urbaine de la localité. Les résultats de cette étude révèlent que les défis et enjeux actuels de la gouvernance locale sont de trois ordres : règlementaire, financier et fonctionnel. Pour ce qui est du premier ordre, le problème des villes camerounaises, est le non-respect de la règlementation en vigueur, et surtout l’omniprésence de la corruption. Le deuxième ordre est celui de l’incapacité des municipalités à collecter les recettes ce qui ne limite leur investissement qu’à des ouvrages de très faible impact social et économique. Sur le plan fonctionnel, la décentralisation a favorisé la multiplication d’acteurs aux aspirations très souvent divergentes, mais aussi une confusion voire une ignorance des rôles. Au terme de cette étude, avec l’adoption de comportements légaux, il est recommandé aux administrations locales de s’ouvrir au Système d’Information Géographique (SIG) qui dispose des méthodes, techniques et outils permettant de gérer efficacement la donnée spatiale et par conséquent le territoire. De plus, le processus de création de ce système utilisé pour la collecte, le stockage, l’analyse, la modélisation, la gestion, l’affichage et la représentation de l’information spatiale, est une excellente aubaine pour la mise en oeuvre d’un cadre de concertation qui intègre à différentes échelles, la représentativité, les compétences et les objectifs respectifs de toutes les parties prenantes à la gouvernance locale. AbstractDecree N°2007/115 of April 23, 2007 creating new subdivisions within some Divisions of Cameroon demonstrates the will of the Government to improve its decentralization process. Based on the case of the city of Garoua, this work deals with the challenges and issues of local governance, in a context of accelerating the decentralization process with a view to controlled development. To this end, exchanges with twenty-six informants from the public and private administration, twelve chiefdom leaders and thirty of the oldest inhabitants of Garoua were conducted. In addition, about one hundred informants and guides were used, who allowed to characterize three hundred and fifty-five spatial markers of the dynamics of the city. The results revealed that the current challenges and issues of local governance are threefold: regulatory, financial and functional. As for the first, the problem of Cameroonian cities is the non-compliance with the regulations in force, and especially the pervasiveness of corruption. The second order is the inability of municipalities to collect revenue, which limits their investment to works of very low social and economic impact. From a functional point of view, decentralization has favored the multiplication of actors with very divergent aspirations, but also confusion and ignorance of roles. Based on these results, we recommend that local governments open up to Geographic Information System (GIS), which has the methods, techniques and tools to effectively better manage the spatial data and consequently the territory. In addition, the process of creating this system, used for the collection, storage, analysis, modelling, management, display and representation of spatial information, is an important opportunity towards the implementation of a consultation framework that integrates, at different levels, the representativeness, skills and objectives of all stakeholders of local governance on the field.

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