scholarly journals Make the Cities Work: Some Stories of Smart City Initiatives Around the Globe

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukmo Pinuji ◽  
Wahyuni Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The World ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
The City

The concept of Smart City (SC) has been popular recently, and has been adopted by many cities in the world with various implementation and development. As the world most population now concentrates on urban area, a sustainable city planning and management become important. As the population keeps growing,pressure and tension on a city arise: space for living, waste management, traffic congestion, sufficient clean water resources, and other issues. Beginning in around 2009, the concept of SC was designed to solve problems related to city growth in a sustainable manner. By using technology, Internet of Things (IoT), and community participation, SC aims to make the city a livable place for its inhabitants, putting people as the center of interest and in quality of life in sustainable manners as ultimate goal. This paper aimed to deliver a study on the trend of SC adopted by two cities: Amsterdam and Jakarta. The study was conducted through literature review. The data were analyzed to compare the concept of SC in each city from different parameters, focusing on the developmentprocess, technological adoption, political and institutional arrangement and implementation. The results show that each city has specif ic strategy to implement SC, based on their economic, social, environment and demographic characteristics. It is also important to underline that the main concept of SC is to attract related stakeholders in taking charge of their roles for the success of SC. Furthermore, both cities has a sharing vision in putting environment as the main framework of the development of SC.

Traditional Urban Planning Approaches and Sustainable City

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Syful Islam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Planning Approaches

The quality of city life and well being of city dwellers is central goal of urban planning approaches. Nevertheless, unsystematic and short-term planning approaches of cities have produced incomprehensible sprawl, which deteriorates social, economic and ecological sustainability of the city. The need to alleviate or remove these problems systematically for improving the social, ecological, spatial and economical components of the city is contemporary issue, though most of the planning systems do not yet explicitly address those issues of sustainability. This paper considers Urban planning as a key term as it has the capability to reveal the implications of land use strategies, policies and programmes for the social, economic and physical components of environment. In addition, all the traditional urban planning approaches have outlined to explore their soundness in the sustainable city planning, discuss the main approach followed for sustainable city planning, and outline emerging approach in both theory and sustainable city planning practice.

scholarly journals SMART SPECIALISATION DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PIERIGAS REGION (LATVIA)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baiba RIVŽA ◽  
Ligita ĀZENA
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
Ict Development ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
Environmental Capital ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
The City

There are two widely used “smart” concepts, often considered to be synonymous with one another - “smart city” and “smart specialisation”. The origin and initial meaning of each concept is different, although there are certain similarities. On the city level, multiple policy initiatives are oriented towards the concept of a “smart city”, which originally developed around the ICT infrastructure as a means to connect cities and thus provide opportunity for development. Recently the term “smart” has also found its way in regional policy. Therefore, it is necessary to interpret both concepts in a wider sense not limiting them only to meanings associated with technology. There is an empirical connection between smart specialisation development (in a wider sense) and introduction of smart cities (in a wider sense). But it does not mean that all regions (especially those with low manufacturing development index) should follow a strategy of research and development and/or hi-tech manufacturing. Smart development is a multi-dimensional concept, consisting of sustainable economic growth and sustainable city or regional development, based on the advantages of sustainable competition. It is also perceived as means to increase overall quality of life. This means that social and environmental capital also plays an important role together with infrastructural and ICT development.

scholarly journals Abduction for Learning Smart City Rules

10.29007/8jfk ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaj Bjorner ◽  
Maria-Cristina Marinescu ◽  
Mooly Sagiv
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Noisy Data ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City ◽  
Legal Entities

We propose using abduction for inferring implicit rules for Smart City ontologies.We show how we can use Z3 to extract candidate abducers from partial ontologies and leverage them in an iterative process of evolving an ontology by refining relations and restrictions, and populating relations.Our starting point is a Smart City initiative of the city of Barcelona, where a substantial ontology is being developed to support processes such as city planning, social services, or improving the quality of the data concerning (for instance) legal entities, whose incompleteness may sometimes hide fraudulent behavior. In our scenario we are supporting semantic queries over heterogeneous and noisy data. The approach we develop would allow evolving ontologies in an iterative fashion as new relations and restrictions are discovered.

scholarly journals PORTO ALEGRE SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION ZONE – THE STRATEGY OF SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE BRAZILIAN CITY IN RELATION TO POZNAŃ (POLAND)

space&FORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (48) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Ewa Angoneze-Grela ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Smart City ◽  
City Development ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
South Brazil

Porto Alegre, a city in south Brazil, was a pioneer in participatory budgeting in the 1990s, and a decade later it hosted the World Social Forum. These days Porto Alegre is the first place in the world with a Sustainable Innovation Zone. The goal of this endeavour is to transform the city into the most innovative and sustainable city in Latin America by 2030. In the article, the author examines the projects completed to date and the entities involved. Then, the author compares the experiences of Porto Alegre and Poznań.

scholarly journals Evaluating Walkability through a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach: A Lisbon Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1450
Author(s):  
Jônatas Augusto Manzolli ◽  
André Oliveira ◽  
Miguel de Castro Neto
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Pedestrian Traffic ◽  
The City

New strategies to improve the quality of urban pedestrian environments are becoming increasingly important in sustainable city planning. This trend has been driven by the advantages that active mobility provides in terms of health, social, and environmental aspects. Our work explores the idea of walkability. This concept refers to the friendliness of the urban environment to pedestrian traffic. We propose a framework based on the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology to rank streets in terms of walkability levels. The city of Lisbon (Portugal) is the location of the streets under examination. Findings confirmed the framework’s replicability and suggested the possibility of this strategy being used as a support tool for designing urban policies.

scholarly journals BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIIES OF SMART CITY MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (165) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
K. Mykhailova ◽  
T. Pushkar
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Flow Analysis ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
City Management ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The City

Nowadays, the use of the concept of "smart city" opens up opportunities to solve economic, social and environmental problems, which significantly affect the conditions and quality of life of the population. Smart technologies are used in many areas that contributes the improving of the quality of services for the daily life of citizens. However, the existing concept of a smart city is still developing and there are significant problems with its security nowadays. Blockchain technology can help to solve this problem. Recently, the introduction of blockchain technologies in various areas has been increasingly discussed in the world. More and more, this technology attracts the attention of Ukrainian specialists in the field of IT technologies and scientists. The features of the introduction of blockchain technologies are based on the impossibility of bureaucratic actions by the state. Unlike the existing system of the smart city management, blockchain technology will allow city residents to communicate directly bypassing bureaucratic schemes. As it is known it is impossible to intervene in the blockchain and change or delete the record, all the actions will be seen by all the participants in the blockchain, the residents of the city. The purpose of this article is to determine the features of the introduction of blockchain technologies in the management of a smart city in order to give state bodies new tools that will reduce the amount of fraud, the number of errors and reduce the expenditure of paper document flow; analysis of foreign experience of blockchain implementation in the city management system. More and more cities of the world join the introduction of smart technologies. The modern trend of civilization is characterized by the rise and development of several megapolises, which merge into a huge urban structure and which in many cases represent the demographic and economic center of the national system. A number of cities in the world are still not ready to switch to the blockchain technology completely, but their government intends to introduce innovations into the management of the city gradually. Nowadays the blockchain technology plays a key role, as it can allow ICT to fit into an anthropologically ideal social and political context. The blockchain is the technology that can ensure full social equality, democracy, because it assumes that everyone controls everyone but not special bodies. It creates the conditions for the managemental pyramid to line up from below and above at the same time, and not just from above. Therefore, the blockchain technology provides not only the Smart City technology, beneficial to bureaucrats, but something more significant - direct coordination of actions between residents as a condition for their self-organization.

scholarly journals Sustainable Smart City—Opening a Black Box

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 769
Author(s):  
Mona Treude
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Underlying Processes

Cities are becoming digital and are aiming to be sustainable. How they are combining the two is not always apparent from the outside. What we need is a look from inside. In recent years, cities have increasingly called themselves Smart City. This can mean different things, but generally includes a look towards new digital technologies and claim that a Smart City has various advantages for its citizens, roughly in line with the demands of sustainable development. A city can be seen as smart in a narrow sense, technology wise, sustainable or smart and sustainable. Current city rankings, which often evaluate and classify cities in terms of the target dimensions “smart” and “sustainable”, certify that some cities are both. In its most established academic definitions, the Smart City also serves both to improve the quality of life of its citizens and to promote sustainable development. Some cities have obviously managed to combine the two. The question that arises is as follows: What are the underlying processes towards a sustainable Smart City and are cities really using smart tools to make themselves sustainable in the sense of the 2015 United Nations Sustainability Goal 11? This question is to be answered by a method that has not yet been applied in research on cities and smart cities: the innovation biography. Based on evolutionary economics, the innovation biography approaches the process towards a Smart City as an innovation process. It will highlight which actors are involved, how knowledge is shared among them, what form citizen participation processes take and whether the use of digital and smart services within a Smart City leads to a more sustainable city. Such a process-oriented method should show, among other things, to what extent and when sustainability-relevant motives play a role and which actors and citizens are involved in the process at all.

Bike your City: Planning and Designing Cycling Infrastructure in the Urban Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jack J. Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Graphical Design ◽  
The City

<p>Cycling is a memory of the past for most of us, the lack of support from the authorities on the cycling infrastructure made it difficult to attract people to cycle in the city. Urban sprawl, traffic congestion, car dependency, environmental pollution and public health concerns have pressured cities around the world to consider reintegrating cycling into the urban environment.  Design as a research method was utilised to investigate the effectiveness of design methodology and workflow for cycling infrastructure from an architecture and design perspective. Using Wellington City as a design case study, this research aimed to improve the legibility, usability and the image of cycling as a mode of transport in the city. To achieve this, a customisable graphical design framework and branding strategies were developed to structure and organise the design components within cycling infrastructure. The findings from the iterative design processes were visualised through the appropriate architectural and presentation conventions.  This research provided an unique architectural perspectives on the issues of cycling infrastructure; the results would support the transportation advisers and urban planners to further the development and integration of cycling, as a viable mode of transport, within the city.</p>

BUILDING THE SAFE CITY PLANNING CONCEPT : AN ANALYSIS OF PRECEDING STUDIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arinah Rozhan ◽  
Yunos, M. Y. M. ◽  
Md Azree Othuman Mydin ◽  
Nor Kalsum Mohd Isa ◽  
Noor Fazamimah Mohd Ariffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
Planning Concept

The upsetting number of crime occurring in the cities evokes the fear of crime among the civilians. In order to provide a good quality of living environment, a safe city planning must be implemented. To achieve this, several safe city concepts are reviewed. This paper aim to study several safe city concepts done by other researchers. In order to search for the best safe city concepts, a qualitative method research which involves content analysis is the most suitable approach to be employed in this study. This research will develop a new safe city conceptual framework based on the synergy of the previous studies. It is noted that the main concept of safe city planning are the activities and proposition of land use planning, identification of hot spot crime areas, improvement of physical environment and public transport system and appropriate surveillance. 

scholarly journals SMART SECURITY AND SAFETY INDEX MEASUREMENT: A CASE STUDY IN BANDUNG INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Indrawati ◽  
Tania Dayarani ◽  
Husni Amani
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Safety Index ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Index Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Index Level ◽  
The City

Purpose: Nowadays, the development of technology is very fast and increasingly sophisticated; no doubt all the problems in a city can be solved quickly and well. Hence, facing a huge number of the urban population, the city must adopt the strategy of smart city so that the standard of life can be improved. Some of the cities in the world have applied the concept of smart city. One of the dimensions in smart city concept is smart security and safety. This study aims to know the indicators and index level of smart security and safety in Bandung city of Indonesia. This research explores the indicators and measures the index level of smart security and safety in Bandung.  Methodology: The research method characteristics applied in this study is the exploratory sequential mixed method. Main Findings: This study finds that there are 20 indicators to measure the index level of smart security and safety. The smart security and safety level of Bandung city is 72% which is considered that on average the measured indicators are already good enough and satisfied, but there are some indicators that should be improved. The variable that should be improved is variable of Awareness and Understanding which has score of 49%. Implications/Applications: It is suggested by this study that the socialization of smart security and safety program such as Panic Button Application, LAPOR! The website should be more effective through making socialization more targeted and real.

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