scholarly journals The Smart Chain City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Gaj Tripiano
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

The urban, social, industrial and technological evolution in recent years has forced designers, entrepreneurs and public entities to rethink the conceptual and operational logic for the construction of new urban settlements, according to the authentic principles of mutual respect between man and nature, eliminating all thought extremism and purely conceptual theories. In order to make their respective professional and life skills available to future generations, we have set up two international working groups, the ISCW and IS.Smart, in collaboration with the UFC universities of Fortaleza (Brazil), UIR of Rabat (Morocco) and UNITO of Turin (Italy), which for some years now, have been working to transform the notions of smart cities and smart buildings, combined with the new industrial revolution 4.0 and tokenomics, into concrete, multidisciplinary and educational activities. This publication, the result of the work developed in the last three years, intends to be an easy-to-read and application tool for all operators who wish to approach the “smart world” in a professional manner, especially in situations with serious housing shortage and still in the process of social and economic development. By reporting experiences and methodologies already field tested by the author in some working circumstances and that have given rise to case studies, similar to the “Polo Multimodal Pecem” (Brazil), the reader will find useful insights such as the definition of the smart concept and “smart” objectives, the approach to the project, the definition of evaluation parameters, operational examples of management, capital raising and crowdfunding, tokenomics and e- conomy. I do believe that the future of the city will be increasingly linked to these issues, which have now become fundamental and necessary in the projection and planning processes of urban settlements.

scholarly journals FIRST STEPS TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED CITYGML-BASED 3D MODEL OF VIENNA

2016 ◽  
Vol III-4 ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Agugiaro
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D City Model ◽  
First Results ◽  
Sustainable Energy Systems ◽  
City Model ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City ◽  
City Models

This paper presents and discusses the results regarding the initial steps (selection, analysis, preparation and eventual integration of a number of datasets) for the creation of an integrated, semantic, three-dimensional, and CityGML-based virtual model of the city of Vienna. CityGML is an international standard conceived specifically as information and data model for semantic city models at urban and territorial scale. It is being adopted by more and more cities all over the world. <br><br> The work described in this paper is embedded within the European Marie-Curie ITN project “Ci-nergy, Smart cities with sustainable energy systems”, which aims, among the rest, at developing urban decision making and operational optimisation software tools to minimise non-renewable energy use in cities. Given the scope and scale of the project, it is therefore vital to set up a common, unique and spatio-semantically coherent urban model to be used as information hub for all applications being developed. This paper reports about the experiences done so far, it describes the test area and the available data sources, it shows and exemplifies the data integration issues, the strategies developed to solve them in order to obtain the integrated 3D city model. The first results as well as some comments about their quality and limitations are presented, together with the discussion regarding the next steps and some planned improvements.

scholarly journals The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Contribution to Urban Growth

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mehad Emara
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Urban Upgrading

Technological transformation plays a crucial role in our world today. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) represents a significant transformation in many areas of industry in different countries. The rapid speed and scope of the transformation resulted in many urban development challenges, which will subsequently force cities to devise smart solutions to improve the standard of living of urban settlements to provide a better life for their residents. The research aims to discuss these challenges and explore how the 4IR affects the development, urbanisation and transformation of cities into smart ones by highlighting various technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, blockchain and 3D printing. Furthermore, a group of specialists in the field (designers, planners and consultants) will be assessing the contributions of the 4IR that support smart cities and the challenges of achieving urban development and try to reach the relative importance of the participation of each application in achieving urban development and rearrange them according to their significance, to meet the proposed framework. KEYWORDS Smart city, technological development, urban challenges, urban development, urban upgrading, 4IR applications

The Gymnasium at Alexandria

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-104
Author(s):  
Mario C. D. Paganini
Keyword(s):  
Physical Training ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

This chapter is solely devoted to the discussion of the gymnasium of Alexandria. Through the analysis of both literary and documentary sources, it appears clear that the gymnasium of Alexandria occupied a position of importance within the city and was often chosen as place for momentous—sometimes rather gruesome—events. In addition to the main gymnasium, the chapter shows how other gymnasia were also present and active in the city, as well as other places called palaestrae which were devoted to physical training. Questions concerning the foundation and status of the main Alexandrian gymnasium are discussed, as well as its involvement in questions of citizenship: it is argued that the institution was more likely set up by the first Ptolemies (rather than by Alexander the Great) and it may at first been run privately but subsequently controlled by civic magistrates; in any case, the ephebate was not connected to the definition of citizenship status. The final section of this chapter devotes its attention to the role and presence of Judaeans in the Alexandrian gymnasium and to the rejection of the possible existence of a Judaean gymnasium in the city.

scholarly journals THE PLANETARY GARDEN. WHERE NATURAL AND HUMAN INTERTWINE

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramón PICO
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Human Action ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Public ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Aerial Observation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

Spring 1935. After twenty-five years of fascination for heights and six of flying, stimulating experiences, Le Corbusier published Aircraft, a real “Manifesto for a New Era”, according to his own words. Even though Vers une architecture had limited the aeronaoutic model validity to the framework of housing and easthetics ten years before, the reference then was expanded to the city and its fitting within the natural framework, to the definition of a new global habitat in which public space became the focus.The flying experience allowed him to look into the past and find the subtle balance of man and nature. Revelation and rebellion at the same time. Thanks to the new visual as well as mental perspective provided by height, he would drive his reflec-tions towards “geoarchitecture”, a definitive, Humboldtian approach to Earth.His aerial observation of the Algerian M’Zab valley or the layout of the settlements along the Paraná crystallised both into texts such as Sur les quattro routes, Aircraft or Les trois établissements humains, and a series of proposals for Rio, São Paulo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Algiers. Epic adventures through which, and connecting with the interest of those geographers worried about reclaiming human action on the writing on the Earth through his “establishments”, Le Corbusier tackled the configuration of a new public space beyond the limits of the traditional city, claiming for a new planetary order.

A Lucretian Version of Pastoral

Ramus ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Betensky
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Locus Amoenus ◽  
Pastoral Poetry ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Roman Poetry ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

On the infrequent occasions when De Rerum Natura is discussed in terms of pastoral, it is assumed that Lucretius describes the typical locus amoenus familiar since Plato's Phaedrus, and critics concentrate either on tracing his Hellenistic sources or on the basic contrast between luxury and simplicity. But there is more to Lucretian pastoral, just as there is more to Lucretius' atomic universe, than meets the eye. The essence of his pastoral is original, centered around animals rather than shepherds, and his use of pastoral pervades the poem and is integral to its design.The most inclusive definition of pastoral possible is Empson's, the expression of the complex through the simple. It is more useful, however, to think of pastoral as the expression of an unfulfillable longing for a simpler and happier life, which may include a return from the city to the country, from politics to the land, from the Iron Age to the Golden Age, from war to peace, from vice to virtue, or from adulthood to childhood. Traditional pastoral is usually set in the country among shepherds and flocks, and man and nature interact harmoniously according to what has been called since Ruskin the ‘pathetic fallacy’. Plato ‘creates’ pastoral by contrasting city and country in the Phaedrus. Roman poetry uses elements of the urban-rural contrast not only in pastoral poetry as such but in satire, elegy and epic as well. The varied directions in which individual poets take the generic pastoral form are as interesting as the persistence of the form itself, and Lucretius' version, occurring as it does in a didactic epic, is extremely individual when viewed both from within and without the classical tradition of pastoral.

scholarly journals Innovative projects and programmes for the strategic development of the municipality

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 02149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Semenova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
City District ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

The relevance of the matter is caused by the fact that the essence of strategic planning consists in the definition of the priority sphere of social-and-economic development of the city district taking into account the external environment factors and available resources. It is necessary to prove the organization of the chosen project or programme, including sources and mechanisms of resources attraction, applied technologies, technical means, etc. within strategic management. The main document in the sphere of complex social-and-economic development of the municipal unit is the strategic plan that allows formulating the perspective purposes of the development, choosing alternative options of the municipality, thereby attracting investments into the projects and programmes. The subject of the research is the “City district Podolsk”. Some problems of strategic planning of investment projects and programmes, which are necessary for the improvement of activity of the “city district Podolsk”, are studied. The objective of the research is to develop recommendations on the strategic planning of activity of the “City district Podolsk”. Calculations for three investment programmes are made for the identification of the most successful direction of strategic development of the “City district Podolsk” by the means of formulas of the indicator of efficiency and coefficient of competitiveness. The achieved results can be used for creation of the Draft of the strategic development plan for the “City district Podolsk” till 2022.

scholarly journals Hipparcos – Activities of the Input Catalogue Consortium

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 683-690
Author(s):  
C. Turon ◽  
F. Crifo
Keyword(s):  
Variable Stars ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Input Catalogue ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThe Input Catalogue Consortium (INCA) is in charge of selecting the 100 000 stars to be observed by Hipparcos. In this paper the organisation of the Consortium is described, and the technical requirements to be met by the Input Catalogue for optimal scientific return are summarised. The various tasks of this long collective work are then reviewed including the identification process of the proposed stars, the progressive construction of a list without redundancies, and the definition of the ‘survey’. The final selection of the stars which will be observed by Hipparcos is being made using a numerical simulation which takes into account the observing constraints of the satellite, and a parameter called the ‘pressure’ which is calculated for each star. Finally, the organisation of working groups set up to deal with special objects (multiple stars, variable stars, minor planets, stars in dense areas, and stars for linking the Hipparcos system to an extragalactic reference system) are described. New photometric and astrometric programmes undertaken for stars with unsatisfactory precision on magnitudes and/or coordinates, a major part of the Consortium’s work, will be presented elsewhere.

scholarly journals Confirmation and Validation of Smart Tourism Technology Attributes: the case study of City of Tshwane

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Munei Nengovhela ◽  
Nixon Muganda Ochara ◽  
Tondani Madzunye (Nethengwe)
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Destination Choice ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
World Class ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The City ◽  
Technology Attributes ◽  
Smart Tourism

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has resulted in the proliferation of the word ‘smart’. The continued use and adoption of smart tourism technologies by tourists is creating a new form of tourist consumption behaviour that is influenced by smart tourism technologies. The notion of smart cities has also emerged. The city of Tshwane has been making strides to become a world class African smart city and such offers the city of Tshwane an opportunity to position itself as a smart tourism destination. Prior to such positioning, it is critical that a research aimed at investigating digital behaviour of tourists visiting the city be conducted. The objective of the current study was to identify and validate the attributes (factors) of the smart tourism technologies that influence a tourist’s destination choice. The study was quantitative in nature. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire with 29 seven-point Likert scale items. A total of 208 questionnaires were collected. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to reduce and validate the factors (Attributes). The study identified seven smart tourism technology attributes that influence destination choice, such factors should therefore be considered when designing smart tourism tools aimed to supporting tourist decision making.

scholarly journals FIRST STEPS TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED CITYGML-BASED 3D MODEL OF VIENNA

2016 ◽  
Vol III-4 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
G. Agugiaro
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D City Model ◽  
First Results ◽  
Sustainable Energy Systems ◽  
City Model ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City ◽  
City Models

This paper presents and discusses the results regarding the initial steps (selection, analysis, preparation and eventual integration of a number of datasets) for the creation of an integrated, semantic, three-dimensional, and CityGML-based virtual model of the city of Vienna. CityGML is an international standard conceived specifically as information and data model for semantic city models at urban and territorial scale. It is being adopted by more and more cities all over the world. <br><br> The work described in this paper is embedded within the European Marie-Curie ITN project “Ci-nergy, Smart cities with sustainable energy systems”, which aims, among the rest, at developing urban decision making and operational optimisation software tools to minimise non-renewable energy use in cities. Given the scope and scale of the project, it is therefore vital to set up a common, unique and spatio-semantically coherent urban model to be used as information hub for all applications being developed. This paper reports about the experiences done so far, it describes the test area and the available data sources, it shows and exemplifies the data integration issues, the strategies developed to solve them in order to obtain the integrated 3D city model. The first results as well as some comments about their quality and limitations are presented, together with the discussion regarding the next steps and some planned improvements.

scholarly journals Application Of The Concept And Monitoring Of Robot Line Follwer As a Prototype Of Pekanbaru Trans Metro Bus Towards The Revolution Industry 4.0 (Penerapan Konsep Dan Monitoring Robot Line Follwer Sebagai Prototipe Bus Trans Metro Pekanbaru Menuju Era Revo

KOMTEKINFO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Anip Febtriko ◽  
Wita Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fuzzy Algorithms ◽  
Bus Lane ◽  
Fall Line ◽  
The City ◽  
Bus Transportation

Public transportation is a major part of developing an advanced and modern city. Progress in public transportation is needed to be planned and realized to deal with the development of the city together with population and economic growth. The use of the Trans Metro Pekanbaru bus transportation is not in line with the development and progress of the City of Pekanbaru, which wants to be a smart city, where the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) needs to be realized in building smart cities and currently the use of the Trans Metro Pekanbaru bus in Pekanbaru is still becoming a problem. it needs to be resolved like the Trans Metro Pekanbaru bus lane which still uses a shared lane which causes congestion and lack of good trafic regulations. Trans Metro Pekanbaru bus transportation is still weak in terms of arrival and departure times. Trans metro Pekanbaru has not yet been integrated in a system that can be monitored centrally through the application of an application system based on the Global Positioning System (GPS). To overcome this problem, it is necessary to have the Trans Metro Pekanbaru bus transportation in the form of a prototype line follower robot which is a solution to overcome this problem. The purpose of this research is to make the line follower robot as a trans-metro silmulation bus for Pekanbaru become a smart city that is able to serve and facilitate the public's need for public transportation towards the industrial revolution 4.0. Line follower robot is a robot that works by following a line in the form of a road such as a traf ic lane, where the robot works using photodiode sensors and ultrasonic sensors as proximity sensors so that it stops automatically at every stop or place where passengers rise and fall. Line follower robots are automatically controlled so programming code and fuzzy algorithms are needed. Line follower robots are also equipped with Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) to determine passenger conditions.

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