The Digital Governance of Smart City Networks: Information Technology-driven Economy, Citizen-centered Big Data, and Sustainable Urban Development

With the wide application of mobile Internet, Internet of Things and social media, the era of big data has come. “Smart city” is the trend of urban development and the integration of urbanization and informatization. Although it is still in the pilot stage, it has broad prospects. This paper discusses the application fields and implementation methods of big data technology in “Smart city”, and puts forward suggestions for the construction of smart city, which is helpful to improve the wisdom level of the city.

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The Smart City concept: discussion points

10.33983/2075-1826-2019-4-15-26 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 15-26

Author(s):

V.V. Ivanov ◽

R.K. Nurmukhametov

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Smart City ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Modern Concept ◽

City Life ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Significant Disagreement

Smart City is a new phenomenon of the ХХI-st century that reflects three latest world trends: a) an accelerating pace of urbanization; b) an active process of digitalization of economy and society; c) growing attention to the issues of sustainable urban development. All these trends intersect in the field of urban agglomeration. There are significant disagreement regarding the nature, substance and structure of «Smart City» concept. The difficulty in defining the concept of «Smart City» lies in the multidimensional nature of functions of the city itself that therefore requires a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis. The overview of the available scientific research shows that the concept of «Smart City» comprises four components: quality of life as a main goal; broad public participation in the development, monitoring and implementation of «Smart City» projects, sustainable urban development; widespread use of digital and other technologies in the economic, social and cultural spheres of city life. According to the authors currently there is much evidence to suggest that the modern concept of «Smart City» is being transformed into the concept of «Smart Sustainable City», when the emphasis is not only on information and communication technologies and human capital, but also on the achievement of the substantial development.

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RAISING THE EFFICIENCY OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR NEW CITIES BY ACTIVATING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY SERVICE CASE STUDY OF SHOROUQ CITY / SMART CITY

Journal of Environmental Science ◽

10.21608/jes.2018.23983 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 77-104

Author(s):

El Ahwel, M. A. ◽

El-shahed, Fahima ◽

Ahmed, Eman, M. ◽

Mohamed, Enas, S. ◽

Awd-Allah, Doaa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Community Service ◽

Smart City ◽

Sustainable Urban Development

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CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SMART CITY ENVIRONMENTS: THE UPDATE

ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-annals-v-2-2020-957-2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V-2-2020 ◽

pp. 957-964 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Angelidou ◽

E. Stylianidis

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Urban Development ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Smart City ◽

Spatial Information ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

City Development ◽

The Past ◽

New Generation

Abstract. In 2017 we published a seminal research study in the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences about how smart city tools, solutions and applications underpinned historical and cultural heritage of cities at that time (Angelidou et al. 2017). We now return to investigate the progress that has been made during the past three years, and specifically whether the weak substantiation of cultural heritage in smart city strategies that we observed in 2017 has been improved. The newest literature suggests that smart cities should capitalize on local strengths and give prominence to local culture and traditions and provides a handful of solutions to this end. However, a more thorough examination of what has been actually implemented reveals a (still) rather immature approach. The smart city cases that were selected for the purposes of this research include Tarragona (Spain), Budapest (Hungary) and Karlsruhe (Germany). For each one we collected information regarding the overarching structure of the initiative, the positioning of cultural heritage and the inclusion of heritage-related smart city applications. We then performed a comparative analysis based on a simplified version of the Digital Strategy Canvas. Our findings suggest that a rich cultural heritage and a broader strategic focus on touristic branding and promotion are key ingredients of smart city development in this domain; this is a commonality of all the investigated cities. Moreover, three different strategy architectures emerge, representing the different interplays among the smart city, cultural heritage and sustainable urban development. We conclude that a new generation of smart city initiatives is emerging, in which cultural heritage is of increasing importance. This generation tends to associate cultural heritage with social and cultural values, liveability and sustainable urban development.

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Smart neighbourhood

Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management ◽

10.1108/jstpm-04-2017-0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 210-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Harish Kumar ◽

Manoj Kumar Singh ◽

M.P. Gupta ◽

Jitendra Madaan

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Urban Development ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Matrix Multiplication ◽

Working Environment ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Key Factors ◽

Content Type ◽

City Planners

Purpose This paper aims to identify the key factors to design efficient, healthy and potentially economical neighbourhood places in the surroundings of smart cities to reduce the urban polarization for the sustainable urban development. Design/methodology/approach A two-stage methodology is followed. First, the key factors for neighbourhood are identified from literature studies. The selected factors are validated by sample t-tests. Second, the total interpretive structural modeling is used to interpret the complexity of relationships among various factors. Further, cross-impact matrix multiplication is applied for classification analysis to find the most driving factors for neighbourhood design. Findings The contribution of this research is to show hierarchical relationships among the various factors to design the neighbourhood places as smart from the perspectives of city planners and decision makers. Research limitations/implications The applicability of the research findings is limited to developing countries mainly where population is large and most of cities have high pressure on its infrastructure to fulfil the citizens’ demands. Practical implications This paper will aid policymakers, city planners and government officials to design a sustainable smart city model in which smart neighbourhood would also be the potential solution to decrease pressure on a city’s critical infrastructure especially in developing countries. Social implications A smart city could be considered as the centre point of smart initiatives to develop a place smart, and it should continue beyond the city boundaries to enhance the facilities, services, resources utilization and working environment in neighbourhood places also. Originality/value The study explores the various literature on neighbourhood planning and then link with smart city development as current need of urban development scenario. The authors propose a hierarchical relation framework to develop the neighbourhood places as smart places to meet the future demand of urbanization in developing countries like India.

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Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications

Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management ◽

10.1108/jstpm-05-2017-0016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 146-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Margarita Angelidou ◽

Artemis Psaltoglou ◽

Nicos Komninos ◽

Christina Kakderi ◽

Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Open Source ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Value Added ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Potential Contribution ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Content Type

Purpose This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has highlighted the need to explore the relation of smart and sustainable cities more systematically, focusing on practical applications that could enable a deeper understanding of the included domains, typologies and design concepts, and this paper aims to address this research gap. At the same time, it tries to identify whether these applications could contribute to the “zero vision” strategy, an extremely ambitious challenge within the field of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach This objective is pursued through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments. A total of 32 applications were detected through the Intelligent/Smart Cities Open Source (ICOS) community, a meta-repository for smart cities solutions. The applications are analyzed comparatively regarding (i) the environmental issue addressed, (ii) the associated mitigation strategies, (iii) the included innovation mechanism, (iv) the role of information and communication technologies and (v) the overall outcome. Findings The findings suggest that the smart and sustainable city landscape is extremely fragmented both on the policy and the technical levels. There is a host of unexplored opportunities toward smart sustainable development, many of which are still unknown. Similar findings are reached for all categories of environmental challenges in cities. Research limitations pertain to the analysis of a relatively small number of applications. The results can be used to inform policy making toward becoming more proactive and impactful both locally and globally. Given that smart city application market niches are also identified, they are also of special interest to developers, user communities and digital entrepreneurs. Originality/value The value added by this paper is two-fold. At the theoretical level, it offers a neat conceptual bridge between smart and sustainable cities debate. At the practical level, it identifies under-researched and under-exploited fields of smart city applications that could be opportunities to attain the “zero vision” objective.

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