scholarly journals Smart City: The main assist factor for smart cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
Triana Puspita Ningrum
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Literature Reviews

Initially, A smart city was originally a solution used to deal with the environmental crisis that took place in the 20th century. Smart city concepts derive from the use of technology and knowledge to enhance society's efficiency and competitiveness. The indicators are needed that support the achievement of a smart city. We will analyze the indicators that can impact the smart city achievement in this article. The aim of this study is to identify the indicators that influence the process of developing a smart city in order to be able to help other cities to establish sustainable policies and work plans so that they can prepare themselves for a smart city consistently. From the results of content analysis and descriptions of literature reviews, it is concluded that the indicators most used in the assessment of smart cities are divided into eight groups of indicators, including governance, economy, living, mobility, environment, people, branding, and demography.

Smart City, Just City. An IHC Global Initiative in Support of the New Urban Agenda

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
Judith Hermanson
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Goal ◽  
Global Initiative ◽  
New Urban Agenda

This article describes IHC Global’s “Smart City. Just City” initiative which it launched at a panel at the ninth World Urban Forum (WUF 9) held in Kuala Lumpur in February 2018.  The initiative is a key component of IHC Global’s commitment to the New Urban Agenda and to achieving the aims of Global Goal 11.  By seeking to align two different approaches to urban development – the technology driven “smart city” approach and the “social justice” informed “just city” approach – its goal is to fill a policy and practice gap with a policy framework and supporting indicators which will enable cities to intentionally use technology to achieve greater inclusiveness and equity and so to create places and spaces which are both “smart” and “just.” Too often “smart cities” focus on technology almost exclusively and when other benefits are seen as “by-products” of the technology.  On the other hand, the human-centered focus of “just cities” too often fails to think sufficiently progressively or to use available technologies to advance its goals.  “Smart City. Just City” aims to bring these two approaches together, to show that “technology” and “human centeredness” are not mutually exclusive terms and that the often private-sector driven use of technology can in fact serve “public good” purposes when these purposes are intentionally pursued.  IHC Global’s premise is that when a city uses smart technology with the purpose to achieve greater inclusiveness and justice, divisions will be lessened; economic opportunities will be more plentiful and widely available; a large number of people will be more robustly prepared to cope with natural and other “shocks”; and the city, as a whole, will prosper.

scholarly journals Smart Governance of City’s Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Rytis Milkintas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
General Level ◽  
City Management ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
City Culture

The goal of the research is to prepare a theoretical model of smart cultural governance and to evaluate the smart cultural management of Šiauliai city according to it. The background of creating a smart culture governance model is to define the theoretical constructs of smart city and smart culture management by looking for correlations between these concepts in order to closely link cultural management with the implementation of cultural policy in city management processes and to highlight the specifics of smart cultural management. A systematic model of a smart city is formed and presented, of which cultural management is an integral part. The model highlights the links between cultural management and other dimensions of the smart city. The theoretical model of smart culture management, which was adapted to investigate the expression of smart culture management in Šiauliai city, is presented. This kind of research has not been done so far in analyzing smart culture management in Šiauliai city. The need for the research was inspired by culture specialists of Šiauliai City Municipality Administration and heads of cultural institutions. The qualitative content analysis of theoretical sources of foreign countries and Lithuania was conducted as well as in-depth interviews to collect information that was processed through qualitative content analysis and systematized using matrices. The assessment of model expression based on the informants’ attitudes enabled the researcher to draw substantive conclusions.The research is relevant to Šiauliai city culture field institutions (private, subordinate municipality, subordinate to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania), Šiauliai city culture field policymakers. In a broader sense, the improvement in the quality of the intelligent social system highlighted in the study will significantly contribute to the general level of culture in Šiauliai. These positive changes will be experienced by the recipients of cultural services.Further research in the field of smart city cultural management is planned to analyze not only the situation of Šiauliai city but also the cultural field of Lithuania as a whole, in connection with the practices of the international cultural field. It is planned to study the smoothness of the transformation of cultural field institutions, adaptation to smart cultural management, and the emerging challenges. Further research is planned to analyze the scientific studies prepared by smart cities, to look for specific actions highlighted in them, challenges for the cultural sector in adapting to the gradual transformation of cities into smart cities.

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF KANGKAR AS THE FRONTIER CHINESE SETTLEMENT IN JOHOR, MALAYSIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Low Hui Ching ◽  
Raja Nafida Raja Shahminan ◽  
Gurupiah Mursib
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Irreversible Loss ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The 19Th Century

In the 19th century, Chinese immigrants were drawn to Johor via the entirely unique Kangchu system that was only adapted in the state, later contributed significantly to its economic progress. The Chinese came for pepper and gambier plantation and settled at riverside which formed the frontier Chinese settlement called “Kangkar”. It is also believed that kangkar is the earliest established Chinese settlement in Johor, then many of them substituted by New Village in 1950s, and today’s modern housing in the 20th century. Irony the kangkar settlements are declining while some already abandoned. Furthermore, study of Chinese settled at Johor in kangkar settlement is still lacking, which severely constrain the preservation of such historical settlement. To help fill this gap, this paper aims to delineate the kangkar settlement which represents strong historical significance to Chinese architectural paradigm in Johor. It is crucial to start paying attention on this Chinese heritage to avoid irreversible loss of humanity’s heritage as well as diversity. As the formation of kangkar settlement was mainly ranged from 1844 to 1917, historical data was collected through content analysis of archival documents, literature reviews, and interviews of scholars. The special terms used were revealed such as Kangchu, kangkar, and “surat sungai”. Kangkar as a unique Chinese living settlement which existed due to Kangchu system, plays important and positive roles in Johor development in terms of economy, co-existence, and identity. It is hence crucial to preserve the kangkar settlements by providing insight of guideline to sustain and avoid further decline.

scholarly journals MALAYSIA SMART TOURISM FRAMEWORK FOR ECOTOURISM (MSTF-ECO) FROM MALAYSIA SMART CITY FRAMEWORK: A REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Syakir Amir Ab Rahman ◽  
Nur’Hidayah Dura
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Smart Tourism

Abstract: Smart tourism today is a frontier of studies in the tourism field, and is a promising area from various research perspectives in terms of models, tools and strategies in sustaining the process of intelligent configuration of tourism destinations. The emergence of smart devices is highly favourable as it connects everyday infrastructures via the present networks available. Today’s smart tourism has given rise to research efforts that are getting more detailed for future needs. On that count, this study aims to develop Malaysia Smart Tourism Framework for Ecotourism (MSTF-Eco) from Malaysia Smart City Framework. The content analysis is used to identify the characteristics and sub-characteristics for MSTF-Eco by analysing several literature reviews on smart tourism in terms of terminologies and case studies, which will be placed into the characteristics and sub-characteristics for MSTF-Eco. Keywords: Malaysia Smart Tourism Framework for Ecotourism (MSTF-Eco), Malaysia Smart City Framework, Smart Tourism, Content Analysis

scholarly journals Analisis Perkembangan Penulisan Tafsir Maudu’i di Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-153
Author(s):  
Sahlawati Abu Bakar ◽  
Haziyah Hussin ◽  
Wan Nasyrudin Wan Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Great Development

Various studies have been done in Malaysia on exegesis and its development. But less study was conducted on thematic exegesis. The study aimed to present the development of thematic exegesis in Malaysia beginning in the 1940s until the early 20th century. The method used to study thematic exegesis in Malaysia was qualitative using content analysis methods as research designs. The literature reviews were conducted to collect the data on thematic exegesis. The findings showed that the pattern of Quranic tafsir in Malaysia began with the translation of the original works of exegetes. Then the interpretation was made comprehensively and the predominant pattern of interpretation was tafsir al-tahlili and mawdu’i. The writing of thematic exegesis showed the great development of the 20th century and the topic-based writing became the preferred choice for the author of al-mawdu’i in Malaysia besides the lafaz (metonym) and surah (chapter). Among the topics studied were the story of the Prophet, faith, economy, family and ibadah (act of worship). Therefore, this study showed significant developments of thematic exegesis in Malaysia which further illustrated the society’s need for this kind of exegesis. This study provided new inputs to the researchers in Malaysian on exegesis in general and thematic exegesis in particular. ABSTRAK Kajian mengenai penulisan tafsir di Malaysia dan perkembangannya telah dilakukan oleh pengkaji tafsir di Malaysia. Namun kajian mengenai penulisan tafsir mawdu’i secara khusus kurang dijalankan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengemukakan perkembangan tafsir mawdu’i di Malaysia bermula pada tahun 1940an sehingga awal abad ke-20. Metode yang digunakan untuk mengkaji penulisan karya-karya tafsir mawdu’i di Malaysia adalah kualitatif dengan menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan sebagai reka bentuk penyelidikan. Sorotan literatur dilakukan bagi mengumpulkan data berkenaan karya-karya tafsir mawdu’i. Hasil kajian mendapati corak pertafsiran al-Quran di Malaysia bermula dengan terjemahan karya-karya asli tafsir. Kemudian penulisan tafsir dibuat secara menyeluruh dan corak tafsir yang dominan ialah tafsir tahlili dan mawdu’i. Penulisan tafsir mawdu’i menunjukkan perkembangan yang besar pada abad ke-20 dan penulisan berdasarkan topik menjadi pilihan utama penulis tafsir mawdu’i di Malaysia selain lafaz dan surah. Di antara topik-topik yang dikaji ialah kisah Nabi, akidah, ekonomi, kekeluargaan dan ibadah. Justeru, kajian ini menunjukkan perkembangan yang signifikan dalam penulisan tafsir mawdu’i di Malaysia seterusnya menggambarkan keperluan masyarakat terhadap jenis tafsir ini. Kajian ini memberikan input baru kepada pengkaji tafsir di Malaysia secara umum dan tafsir mawdu’i secara khusus.

A New Concept in Tourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 414-429
Author(s):  
Gamze Coban ◽  
Şule Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Smart Tourism

This chapter provides an insight into the topic of smart destinations. By adopting smart technologies, tourism destinations, as well as cities, gain more opportunities to offer better quality of life for residents and visitors. Smart cities aim to improve resource management, sustainability, and living conditions in urban environments by utilizing ICTs. The concept of smart tourism destination, deriving from smart city, refers to the use of technology in tourism destinations to increase the service quality and tourist satisfaction by focusing on tourists' expectations. In other words, smart tourism destinations aim to integrate technology into the destination for these purposes. This chapter presents the concepts of smart city, smart tourism, and smart destination. The emergence of smart city and smart destination concepts and the issues and challenges they might face are discussed. In addition to some future research directions, a brief discussion on potential controversies is presented.

scholarly journals When Design Fiction Meets Geospatial Sciences to Create a More Inclusive Smart City

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1334-1352
Author(s):  
Andrée-Anne Blacutt ◽  
Stéphane Roche
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The People ◽  
Design Fiction

Smart cities are especially suited for improving urban inclusion by combining digital transition and social innovation. To be smart, a city has to provide every citizen with urban spaces, public services, and common goods that are effectively affordable, whatever the citizen’s gender, culture, origin, race, or impairment. Based on two design workshops, the “Vibropod” and the “Pointe-aux-Lièvres”, this paper aims at highlighting the contributions of design fiction to the improvement of the spatial capability of hearing impaired people. This research draws its originality from both its conceptual framework, built on an interdisciplinary and intersectoral composition of arts and sciences, and its operational approach, based on the use of the DeafSpace markers and the TRIZ theory (Russian acronym for Inventive Problem Solving Theory) principles. The two design fiction workshops demonstrate that considering the singularity of the human being as an actual acoustic material constitutes an innovative opportunity to improve the role of universal design in a smart city project. By reversing the classic posture, and defining disability by looking at characteristics of the environment rather than as limits of the people themselves (their bodies or their senses), this research proposes an innovative way of addressing smart city inclusivity issues. This paper shows how increasing spatial enablement and having better control of spatial skills can offer deaf people new skills to improve the use of technology in support of urban mobility, as well as give them tools for feeling safer in urban environments.

Analyzing smart cities' reporting: do they report “smart”?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Cohen ◽  
Sotirios Karatzimas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Manifest Content

PurposeThis study examines the reporting practices of a sample of awarded smart cities that report in English by analyzing the financial and non-financial reports published in their websites.Design/methodology/approachThe study performs a manifest content analysis on the financial and non-financial reports published by a sample of awarded – by various networks and organizations – smart cities. Integrated Popular Reporting that builds on Integrated Reporting, Popular Reporting and ICT advancements is used as the reference paradigm to analyze the content and the characteristics of these reports.FindingsThe results indicate that smart cities' reports are mainly developed conventionally and do not embed technological advancements. However, there are several smart cities that adopt a reporting paradigm where the five capitals of Integrated Reporting, over and above the financial one, are discussed.Originality/valueSystematizing the way the existing reports of smart cities are developed provides evidence whether smart cities adopt reporting means that are consistent with their character, as well as, the specific areas they should focus to achieve that. Toward this end, collaborations between citizens and smart city councils, in the philosophy of co-production and co-creation of public value, could prove helpful in the development of useful reports.

scholarly journals “Smart City” Definition and ITS Practice in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
City Management ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The Individual

Smart cities have fascinated the world as the application is emerging as a popular choice for city management in developed countries. And thus, the Indian administrators are lured to resolve their everlasting urban issues through the proposed Smart City Initiatives. The priorities are set as sustainable and inclusive development. But public in general wants resolutions on whatever their most basic immediate need is, which varies city to city, place to place. We have come a long way since inception of Smart Cities in India in 2015, but still the smart city tag creates a doubt as to what exactly it is. Different experts from different domain visualise it from their unique perspective of urgencies and priorities. And consequent models of smart cities world over are different from one another, not only in terms of extent of use of technology but also with the goals set in development. This brings us to the individual pursuit of development and the question, what is smart for us? And then this is a multidimensional question, as it brings numerous intellectual orientations, setting up entirely different perspectives. There are debates on priorities and context and consequently the different opinions tend to dilute the rational of smart cities. This study covers evolution of smart cities world over for clarity on what is meant out of the Smart City as an Operating System for city or a Development tool and in what perspective. And as there are so many parallel technical aspects and so much of divergent details that a beginner fails to grasp the Smart City ‘pedagogical geography’, this paper attempts to cover most of the terms, classification and types of Smart City framework to bring clarity on what means what.

Content analysis of literature on big data in smart cities

2019 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pulkit Tiwari ◽  
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan ◽  
Sushil Punia
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Content Type ◽  
City Model

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic literature review on the technological aspects of smart cities and to give insights about current trends, sources of research, contributing authors and countries. It is required to understand technical concepts like information technology, big data analytics, Internet of Things and blockchain needed to implement smart city models successfully. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from the Scopus database, and analysis techniques like bibliometric analysis, network analysis and content analysis were used to obtain research trends, publications growth, top contributing authors and nations in the domain of smart cities. Also, these analytical techniques identified various fields within the literature on smart cities and supported to design a conceptual framework for Industry 4.0 adoption in a smart city. Findings The bibliometric analysis shows that research publications have increased significantly over the last couple of years. It has found that developing countries like China is leading the research on smart cities. The network analytics and article classification identified six domains within the literature on smart cities. A conceptual framework for the smart city has proposed for the successful implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies. Originality/value This paper explores the role of Industry 4.0 technologies in smart cities. The bibliometric data on publications from the year 2013 to 2018 were used and investigated by using advanced analytical techniques. The paper reviewS key technical concepts for the successful execution of a smart city model. It also gives an idea about various technical considerations required for the implementation of the smart city model through a conceptual framework.

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