scholarly journals The crucial role of citizen involvement in smart city development and operation

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-228
Author(s):  
Richard Bull ◽  
Ken Dooley ◽  
Muhammad Mazhar
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
City Development

scholarly journals Role of Internet of Things (IoT) and Crowdsourcing in Smart City Projects

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1276-1292
Author(s):  
Isam Shahrour ◽  
Xiongyao Xie
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
City Development ◽  
Mobile Crowdsourcing ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This paper presents and discusses the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) and crowdsourcing in constructing smart cities. The literature review shows an important and increasing concern of the scientific community for these three issues and their association as support for urban development. Based on an extensive literature review, the paper first presents the smart city concept, emphasizing smart city architecture and the role of data in smart city solutions. The second part presents the Internet of Things, focusing on IoT technology, the use of IoT in smart city applications, and security. Finally, the paper presents crowdsourcing with particular attention to mobile crowdsourcing and its role in smart cities. The paper shows that IoT and crowdsourcing have a crucial role in two fundamental layers of smart city applications, namely, the data collection and services layers. Since these two layers ensure the connection between the physical and digital worlds, they constitute the central pillars of smart city projects. The literature review also shows that the smart city development still requires stronger cooperation between the smart city technology-centered research, mainly based on the IoT, and the smart city citizens-centered research, mainly based on crowdsourcing. This cooperation could beneficiate in recent developments in the field of crowdsensing that combines IoT and crowdsourcing.

URBAN PLANNING MEASURES FOR SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jirawan Klaylee ◽  
Pawinee Iamtrakul ◽  
NUWONG CHOLLACOOP
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Human Society ◽  
City Development ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Development Approach

Cities represent the driving force of urban development in economic, social, and cultural life which is reflecting on the spatial organization of human society. As a result, the formulation of the national strategic plan into action at the local level need to correspond the requirements of current development. Urban planning measures for controlling the development also plays an important role as an encouragement instrument as well as granting the right to utilize the land for public purposes. In this study, the application of urban planning measures under the concept of smart city development was studied to understand the needs of all stakeholders and create an appropriate investment model in Thailand by using factor analysis technique. The government sector is the key player on the role of providing infrastructure services in addition to support and guide the direction of smart city development. For the role of private sector, investment environment would encourage them to help on upgrading technology, infrastructure, and unlocking public data. The smart city development approach can open up new value chains and opportunities. Therefore, the utilize urban planning measures as a tool for urban development will bring benefit on transforming cities as well as making them smarter and more sustainable which are an important goal for integrated urban development approach.

scholarly journals The role of locality and place-specific development paths in creating smart cities: The example of middle-sized Hungarian cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-502
Author(s):  
Ádám Szalai ◽  
Szabolcs Fabula
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
City Development ◽  
North West ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Development Paths

Smart cities have spawned a global discourse, which is, however, dominated by notions and theories originating from major metropolis regions in the Global North/West, as well as by quantitative approaches. Drawing on case studies from Hungary, this paper aims to reveal how place-specific factors influence smart-city development and to discover the characteristics of this development in the Hungarian context. For this purpose, qualitative research methods, namely a content analysis of policy documents and semi-structured expert interviews, were used. Based on the results, we distinguished four development paths: representative, stalled, organizational model, and focused smart city. Findings broaden the general understanding of smart-city development, providing policy recommendations for the future adaptation of the concept.

scholarly journals Miskolc as a 'Smart City' - Experiences of a Questionnaire Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (Special Issue Nr. 1) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Zoltán Nagy ◽  
Zsolt Péter ◽  
László Molnár ◽  
Dóra Szendi ◽  
Tekla Szép
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Development ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Globalized World

In today’s globalized world the socio-economic role of cities is decisive, therefore they have become one of the most important scenes where responses are given to the complex challenges facing our society. For a city to be successful and competitive, it is necessary to strengthen its flexible resistance, in other words, its resilience. For this purpose, efficient steps could be taken, benefiting from the results of digitization and Industry 4.0, by using smart applications and developments. Nowadays, smart city development and the application of smart/intelligent technologies are gaining an increasing focus in the development of a city. In our study we present the partial results of a primary quantitative research that we conducted in 2019 among the inhabitants of the City of Miskolc, in the age group of 20-64 years. With the help of a questionnaire survey, we were looking for the main focus points that should be given priority in urban smart developments according to the inhabitants’ opinion. Currently, Miskolc is at a medium level in terms of available smart cities technologies – in the inhabitants’ view. According to the opinion of the inhabitants of Miskolc it would be of outstanding importance to introduce smart solutions in the health care, education, safety and fire protection, environmental protection and air pollution.

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