Urban Transformation Toward a Smart City: An E-Commerce–Induced Path-Dependent Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 04020060
Author(s):  
Kh Md Nahiduzzaman ◽  
Mark Holland ◽  
Sujit K. Sikder ◽  
Pamela Shaw ◽  
Kasun Hewage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Induced Path ◽  
Path Dependent

scholarly journals Role of Creative Industries in the Post-Socialist Urban Transformation

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz ◽  
Michał Męczyński ◽  
Krzysztof Stachowiak
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
The West ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Basic Features

Abstract Over the past two decades the cities in Central and Eastern Europe have witnessed a wide-ranging transformation in many aspects. The introduction of a market-oriented economy after half a century of socialism has brought about deep social, economic, cultural and political changes. The first stage of the changes, the 1990s, involved the patching up of structural holes left by the previous system. The post-socialist city had to face challenges of the future while carrying the ballast of the past. Rapid progress in catching up with the West transformed the city a great deal. Later on, the advent of the 21st century brought a new wave of development processes based, among other things, on creativity and innovation. Hence our contribution aims to explore the role of creativity and creative industries in the post-socialist urban transformation. The article consists of three basic parts. In the first we present the concept of a ‘creative post-socialist city’ and define the position of creative industries in it. We also indicate some similarities to and differences from the West European approaches to this issue. In the second part, examples from Central and Eastern Europe are used in an attempt to elucidate the concept of a ‘creative post-socialist city’ by identifying some basic features of creative actions /processes as well as a creative environment, both exogenous and endogenous. The former is embedded in different local networks, both formal (institutionalised) and informal, whereas the structure of the latter is strongly path-dependent. In the third part we critically discuss the role of local policies on the development of creative industries, pointing out some of their shortcomings and drawing up recommendations for future policy measures.

scholarly journals Smart City: A Systematic Approach towards a Sustainable Urban Transformation

2016 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 970-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Aelenei ◽  
Ana Ferreira ◽  
Claudia Sousa Monteiro ◽  
Ricardo Gomes ◽  
Helder Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Urban Transformation

scholarly journals Towards a multiscalar perspective on the prospects of ‘the actually existing smart village’ – a view from Hungary

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Ádám Szalai ◽  
Krisztina Varró ◽  
Szabolcs Fabula
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Integrated Rural Development ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Policies And Practices

This paper aims at expanding the scope of the dominantly pragmatic, local scale-oriented smart village scholarship towards a perspective that recognizes that smart village development is a multiscalar political process. To show the necessity of this move, the shaping of smart village policies and practices in Hungary is examined through a qualitative lens. As the authors argue, path-dependent structural obstacles and interscalar relations undermine the prospects of smart village building in the sense of bottom-up integrated rural development, and there is a risk of a bias towards technological innovation. This exploratory article, using Hungary as a case study, argues that smart village scholarship should draw on the results of critical smart city scholarship to acquire in-depth understanding of current debates regarding potential smart village developments.

scholarly journals From smart to rebel city? Worlding, provincialising and the Barcelona Model

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 004209801987211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greig Charnock ◽  
Hug March ◽  
Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
City Council ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Participative Democracy ◽  
Smart Technologies

This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic worlding vision of the smart city, under a centre-right city council, to its radical repurposing under the auspices of a municipal government led, after May 2015, by the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú. We pay particular attention to the new council’s objectives to harness digital platform technologies to enhance participative democracy, and its agenda to secure technological sovereignty and digital rights for its citizens. While stressing the progressive intent of these aims, we also acknowledge the challenge of going beyond the repurposing of smart technologies so as to engender new and radical forms of subjectivity among citizens themselves; a necessary basis for any urban revolution.

How Digitalization Is Affecting Urban Transformation

2022 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Cinzia Bellone ◽  
Fabio Andreassi ◽  
Fabio Naselli
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
New Research ◽  
Functional Transformations

The chapter aims to analyze the role that digital innovation has whenever it is connected in shaping urban spatial and functional transformations. It is capable of governing any kind of urban project that must find a new platform to engage in diverse modernity. The smart city implementation is one of the results of the new relationship between technology and physical settlement, but it still does not find methodological completeness as it is still linked to connected sensors and numerical flows of data. The chapter explores the critical issues and opens up new research paths following the study of some ongoing urban experimentations as have been amplified in the ongoing new phases in this post-pandemic 2021. The digital network can be a newly established matrix for both the territory and cities, just as roads and railways networks have been in the past – if it becomes a work of public interest on par with conventional urbanization infrastructure ones.

scholarly journals Smart City a Vision of India to Provide People with Better Lifestyle and Move towards a Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1050-1054
Author(s):  
Dr. Sumanta Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Smart Agriculture

Abstract: Urban transformation is very important with rapid migration taking place from rural to urban sector. Smart city mission which was launched in 2015 , is a revolutionary approach to reform and rebuild old cities and develop 100 satellites based cities which will provide maximum benefit to people at a minimum cost with better infrastructure and services , smart agriculture and smart health care system , the smart cities are environmentally friendly and runs on technology , provide housing for all , it will also help to end poverty and alleviate the issue of urban slums . Smart cities is an area based approach for which India also needs to upgrade its cyber infrastructure and provide digital education to its citizens , a collaborative approach by the state and central government will make India’s smart city success . Decent cities which have no space left for accommodation is also rebuilding itself to make the standard of living better for people with sustainable development , promoting green economy , green energy and green funds . Keywords: Urban transformation, Smart cities, green economy, technology, rebuild, revolutionary approach

Smart City Solutions for India

2016 ◽  
pp. 252-273
Author(s):  
Shekhar Vishnu Nagargoje ◽  
Gaurvav Krishna Somani ◽  
Mehul Manjibhai Sutaria ◽  
Navneet Jha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Private Sector Investment ◽  
The World ◽  
City Planners

Indian Government has proposed to develop 100 Smart Cities and 500 AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) Cities in its overall commitment of sustainable development. The proposed study aims at documenting the potential and need of developing Smart cities in India, to understand smart city principles and various dimensions of smart city adopted in various parts of the world which will further help in deriving recommendations and lessons for India's future smart cities. The objective of this study is to generate learning and exploration that will improve confidence in civic authorities, experts, city planners, developers; and help stimulate further private sector investment in developing Smart cities of India.

Smart City Solutions for India

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Shekhar Vishnu Nagargoje ◽  
Gaurvav Krishna Somani ◽  
Mehul Manjibhai Sutaria ◽  
Navneet Jha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Private Sector Investment ◽  
The World ◽  
City Planners

Indian Government has proposed to develop 100 Smart Cities and 500 AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) Cities in its overall commitment of sustainable development. The proposed study aims at documenting the potential and need of developing Smart cities in India, to understand smart city principles and various dimensions of smart city adopted in various parts of the world which will further help in deriving recommendations and lessons for India's future smart cities. The objective of this study is to generate learning and exploration that will improve confidence in civic authorities, experts, city planners, developers; and help stimulate further private sector investment in developing Smart cities of India.

scholarly journals Smart Energy in a Smart City: Utopia or Reality? Evidence from Poland

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5795
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Lewandowska ◽  
Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk ◽  
Krzysztof Rogatka ◽  
Tomasz Starczewski
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Practical Analysis ◽  
Questionnaire Studies

The main principles of the smart city concept rely on modern, environmentally friendly technologies. One manifestation of the smart city concept is investments in renewable energy sources (RES), which are currently a popular direction in urban transformation. It makes sense, therefore, to analyse how Polish cities are coping with this challenge and whether they are including the implementation of RES facilities in their development strategies. The aim of the article is to analyze and assess the level at which renewable energy facilities are being implemented or developed in the urban space of cities in Poland as a pillar of the implementation of the smart city concept. This goal is realized on two levels: the theoretical (analysis of strategic documents) and the practical (analysis of the capacity of RES installations, questionnaire studies). The study shows that renewable energy installations are an important part of the development strategies of Polish cities, and especially of those that aspire to be termed “smart cities”. Moreover, it is shown that the predominant RES facilities are those based on solar energy.

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