Sustainable and Smart Cities

With the aim of identifying approximation points and gaps to be filled in efforts to relate research on smart and sustainable cities, this study made use of bibliometrics and scientometrics to materialize information retrieved in searches conducted in academic databases. Starting from the literature in both fields, it was sought to visualize from the quantitative data, the recent state of researches that have this objective, where it was analyzed that: (i) research that relates these fields is still incipient, and is on the rise; and (ii) there is still a technocratic prevalence and a detachment regarding theoretical advances. Both the quantitative results and the literature support these assertions, and in conjunction with the keyword clouds, one can better visualize viable opportunities on different research fronts.

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‘No-one knows where you are’: Veterinary perceptions regarding safety and risk when alone and on-call

10.31234/osf.io/xcpmy ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Amy Irwin ◽

Janika Vikman ◽

Hannah Ellis

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Data ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Potential Hazard ◽

Personal Safety ◽

Out Of Hours ◽

Remote Locations ◽

High Workload ◽

Quantitative Results ◽

Large Animals

Background: Veterinary work is considered high risk and involves working with a range of hazards including large animals, high workload and long hours. A key potential hazard is making home visits and providing out of hours emergency care where vets often work alone, without support, and must travel long distances. The current study aimed to examine UK veterinary perceptions of safety climate, lone working and on-call tasks to gain a deeper understanding of the risk and hazards involved. Method: An online mixed-methods survey was used to gather quantitative data relevant to practice safety climate, and qualitative data regarding veterinary perception of lone working and on-call work. A sample of 76 UK veterinarians were recruited.Results: The quantitative results suggest that there may be practice safety climate issues around a lack of communication and discussion pertaining to safety, particularly in terms of maintaining personal safety. Key themes within the qualitative data included feeling pressure to treat patients, dealing with difficult clients, travel concerns and feeling unsafe when meeting clients alone and in remote locations. Conclusion: These findings indicate that personal safety requires more attention and discussion within veterinary practices, and that safety protocols and requirements should be shared with clients.

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A novel model for data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: the institutional transformations required for balancing and advancing the three goals of sustainability

Energy Informatics ◽

10.1186/s42162-021-00138-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Simon Elias Bibri

Keyword(s):

Smart Cities ◽

Case Study Research ◽

Development Planning ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Data Driven ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Sustainable Urbanism ◽

The Future ◽

Novel Model ◽

Smart Urbanism

AbstractIn recent years, it has become increasingly feasible to achieve important improvements of sustainability by integrating sustainable urbanism with smart urbanism thanks to the proven role and synergic potential of data-driven technologies. Indeed, the processes and practices of both of these approaches to urban planning and development are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism, giving rise to a new phenomenon known as “data-driven smart sustainable urbanism.” Underlying this emerging approach is the idea of combining and integrating the strengths of sustainable cities and smart cities and harnessing the synergies of their strategies and solutions in ways that enable sustainable cities to optimize, enhance, and maintain their performance on the basis of the innovative data-driven technologies offered by smart cities. These strengths and synergies can be clearly demonstrated by combining the advantages of sustainable urbanism and smart urbanism. To enable such combination, major institutional transformations are required in terms of enhanced and new practices and competences. Based on case study research, this paper identifies, distills, and enumerates the key benefits, potentials, and opportunities of sustainable cities and smart cities with respect to the three dimensions of sustainability, as well as the key institutional transformations needed to support the balancing of these dimensions and to enable the introduction of data-driven technology and the adoption of applied data-driven solutions in city operational management and development planning. This paper is an integral part of a futures study that aims to analyze, investigate, and develop a novel model for data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future. I argue that the emerging data-driven technologies for sustainability as innovative niches are reconfiguring the socio-technical landscape of institutions, as well as providing insights to policymakers into pathways for strengthening existing institutionalized practices and competences and developing and establishing new ones. This is necessary for balancing and advancing the goals of sustainability and thus achieving a desirable future.

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A Review on the Adoption of Agile Methods in the Technology Development for Smart Cities

10.5753/wbci.2019.6748 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa Rocha ◽

Lucas Alves ◽

Valdemar Vicente ◽

Graciano Neto ◽

Mohamad Kassab

Keyword(s):

Technology Development ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Communication Management ◽

Systematic Mapping ◽

Agile Processes ◽

Agile Methodologies ◽

Development Lifecycle ◽

Develop Software ◽

Standard Concept

Smart cities are a standard concept of automated and sustainable cities that adopt technology to increase efficiency in communication, management and globalization of information. Despite the success of the concept, there is an emerging need to develop and deploy software and software-based systems for these cities. Thus, agile methodologies can play an important role, once they are broadly adopted in systems development lifecycle. This paper presents the result of a systematic mapping conducted on agile processes to develop software for smart cities. A systematic mapping identified 246 studies, from which 10 were selected for analysis and presentation of the results obtained.

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Citizen Participation in Smart Sustainable Cities

10.4018/978-1-6684-3706-3.ch052 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 967-987

Author(s):

Ezgi Seçkiner Bingöl

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Smart City ◽

Good Governance ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Participation Mechanisms ◽

The Relationship ◽

City Literature

Citizen participation and sustainability are two main concepts used in the definitions in the smart city literature. Citizen participation is often used within the context of improving good governance in smart cities. Its relationship with sustainability is seldomly discussed. This study analyses the relationship between the concepts of smart city, smart sustainable city, and citizen participation, and discusses how citizen participation is shaped in smart sustainable cities. In light of this analysis, seven types of citizen participation mechanisms are studied. The findings of the study reveal that sustainability in smart cities is only considered within the framework of environmental matters, while citizen participation is only considered as a mechanism aimed at supporting good governance. The study recommends using these participation mechanisms to highlight other aspects of sustainability such as securing comprehensiveness, alleviating poverty, promoting gender equality and to focus on other aspects of citizen participation such as real participation and democratic effectiveness.

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Student Learning and Engagement in a Blended Environment

Research Anthology on Developing Effective Online Learning Courses ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8047-9.ch068 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1371-1385

Author(s):

Lijia Lin

Keyword(s):

Focus Group ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Online Discussions ◽

Behavioral Engagement ◽

Face To Face ◽

Online System ◽

Quantitative Results

The chapter investigated students' behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement, as well as their learning in a blended environment. A convergent mixed methods research design was used in which quantitative data (face-to-face attendance, online system login, and survey) were collected from 71 undergraduate students, and qualitative data (focus group interview) were collected from six of these students. These data were further analyzed and integrated. The quantitative results showed that students' online login, the behavioral engagement indicator, had a positive impact on their learning, which was supported by qualitative findings. Further analysis revealed the mixture of students' engagement, such as confusion vs. interesting feelings to online discussions and frustration vs. not much effort using the online system.

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Environmentally data-driven smart sustainable cities: applied innovative solutions for energy efficiency, pollution reduction, and urban metabolism

Energy Informatics ◽

10.1186/s42162-020-00130-8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Simon Elias Bibri ◽

John Krogstie

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Big Data ◽

Real Time ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Data Driven ◽

Urban Metabolism ◽

Pollution Reduction ◽

Illustrative Case ◽

Sustainable Cities

AbstractThe IoT and big data technologies have become essential to the functioning of both smart cities and sustainable cities, and thus, urban operational functioning and planning are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism. This offers the prospect of building models of smart sustainable cities functioning in real time from routinely sensed data. This in turn allows to monitor, understand, analyze, and plan such cities to improve their energy efficiency and environmental health in real time thanks to new urban intelligence functions as an advanced form of decision support. However, prior studies tend to deal largely with data-driven technologies and solutions in the realm of smart cities, mostly in relation to economic and social aspects, leaving important questions involving the underlying substantive and synergistic effects on environmental sustainability barely explored to date. These issues also apply to sustainable cities, especially eco-cities. Therefore, this paper investigates the potential and role of data-driven smart solutions in improving and advancing environmental sustainability in the context of smart cities as well as sustainable cities, under what can be labeled “environmentally data-driven smart sustainable cities.” To illuminate this emerging urban phenomenon, a descriptive/illustrative case study is adopted as a qualitative research methodology§ to examine and compare Stockholm and Barcelona as the ecologically and technologically leading cities in Europe respectively. The results show that smart grids, smart meters, smart buildings, smart environmental monitoring, and smart urban metabolism are the main data-driven smart solutions applied for improving and advancing environmental sustainability in both eco-cities and smart cities. There is a clear synergy between such solutions in terms of their interaction or cooperation to produce combined effects greater than the sum of their separate effects—with respect to the environment. This involves energy efficiency improvement, environmental pollution reduction, renewable energy adoption, and real-time feedback on energy flows, with high temporal and spatial resolutions. Stockholm takes the lead over Barcelona as regards the best practices for environmental sustainability given its long history of environmental work, strong environmental policy, progressive environmental performance, high environmental standards, and ambitious goals. It also has, like Barcelona, a high level of the implementation of applied data-driven technology solutions in the areas of energy and environment. However, the two cities differ in the nature of such implementation. We conclude that city governments do not have a unified agenda as a form of strategic planning, and data-driven decisions are unique to each city, so are environmental challenges. Big data are the answer, but each city sets its own questions based on what characterize it in terms of visions, policies, strategies, pathways, and priorities.

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PRIORITIES OF CANADA URBAN DEVELOPMENT: FROM SUSTAINABLE TO SMART CITIES

International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.9942 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 181-183

Author(s):

Vladyslav Kolomechiuk

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Urban Development ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Improve Quality ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Community Initiatives ◽

Innovative System

The article deals with the priorities and dynamics of the Canada urban development and describes the sustainable cities evolution. The purpose of the work is to compare the main achievements in the implementation of sustainable cities in Canada and to outline the problems and prospects of the formation of smart cities. To date smart cities is also an innovative system, where technologies are used to improve the relationship between citizens and their governments and provide social innovation and improve quality of life. A sustainable and smart cities is a place where citizens work with local authorities to improve service delivery, develop community initiatives and create solutions to improve quality of life. In this context, it is important to analyze the current policy of sustainable urban development in Canada in order to identify problem points and formulate recommendations for further de-velopment.

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Analysis of gamification in the context of Smart and Sustainable Cities

10.5753/waihcws.2018.3897 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Camilla Damiani ◽

Lidiomar Machado ◽

Ana Carolina Tomé Klock ◽

Guilherme Medeiros Machado ◽

Isabela Gasparini ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Persuasive Technology ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Change Behavior ◽

Management Of Resources ◽

Two Factors ◽

Intelligent Cities

The digital revolution of rapid technological rise and the high movement of urbanization are two factors that determine the transformation of the current society, which creates a scenario favorable to the phenomenon of intelligent cities. One of the main objectives for the design of these cities is that there is an improvement in the lives of citizens. In order to promote and sustain change behavior among citizens it is essential to recognize the use of gamification as persuasive technology. This article addresses a study based on the management of resources for intelligent cities combined with the use of gamification where four articles were analyzed and from them a comparative analysis was elaborated. Keywords: smart cities, sustainable cities, gamification.

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