The Smart City concept: discussion points

Smart City ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Modern Concept ◽

City Life ◽

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.

Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering - Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization ◽

Understanding Smart City Solutions in Turkish Cities From the Perspective of Sustainability

10.4018/978-1-5225-3996-4.ch009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 236-266

Author(s):

H. Filiz Alkan Meshur

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Social Life ◽

Global Scale ◽

Single Step ◽

General Practices ◽

Urban Problems

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the concept of smart city and its potential solutions to correct urban problems. Smart city practices and solutions have been investigated through the lens of a sustainable perspective. As the general practices in the global scale were examined, particular focus has been directed to smart city practices in Turkey and applicable suggestions have been developed. A number of cities in Turkey rank the lowest in the list of livable cities index. Consequential to the rapidly rising population ratios, the quality of provided services declines; economic and social life in cities are adversely affected and brand images of cities are deteriorated. With the implementation of smart city practices, such problems could be corrected, and these cities could gain competitive advantage over their rivals. The key component of this smart administration is to most effectively utilize information and communication technologies during each single step of this process.

Handbook of Research on Smart Territories and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Sustainable Growth - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

Citizen Perceptions and Support for Smart City Projects

10.4018/978-1-7998-2097-0.ch007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 107-123 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Héctor San Martín ◽

Mª Mar García-de-los-Salmones ◽

Ángel Herrero-Crespo

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Environmental Safety ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Citizen Perceptions

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to territories leads to the phenomenon of “Smart City.” The goal of a smart project is to use technology to manage all of the issues of a city (mobility, heritage, environmental, safety, and health services) in a more sustainable, livable, and efficient way, which will result in improving the citizens' quality of life. To know how the individuals perceive and evaluate these smart initiatives, we surveyed 525 citizens of Santander, a city in Spain that has developed a smart city project. As a result, we found that the citizens who are more familiar with smart cities are more likely to perceive that these types of projects have positive economic, cultural, environmental, and reputational impacts for the towns. This group of citizens also has a more positive attitude toward smart cities, assesses more favorably the brand equity of the smart project under investigation, and shows higher support for it.

Rethinking Sustainable Development - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies ◽

Information and Communication Technologies

10.4018/978-1-61692-022-7.ch006 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 73-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tan Yigitcanlar

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Decision Support ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Development ◽

Support Systems ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Urban Planning And Development

The concept of sustainable urban development has been pushed to the forefront of policy-making and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the effects of modern urban lifestyles. Today, sustainable development has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning and development decisions. As a result of this, during the last few years, sustainable development automation applications such as sustainable urban development decision support systems have become popular tools as they offer new opportunities for local governments to realise their sustainable development agendas. This chapter explores a range of issues associated with the application of information and communication technologies and decision support systems in the process of underpinning sustainable urban development. The chapter considers how information and communication technologies can be applied to enhance urban planning, raise environmental awareness, share decisions and improve public participation. It introduces and explores three web-based geographical information systems projects as best practice. These systems are developed as support tools to include public opinion in the urban planning and development processes, and to provide planners with comprehensive tools for the analysis of sustainable urban development variants in order to prepare the best plans for constructing sustainable urban communities and futures.

Smart cities survey: Technologies, application domains and challenges for the cities of the future

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ◽

10.1177/1550147719853984 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 155014771985398 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera ◽

Adrián Nuñez-Marcos ◽

Jesus Sesma-Solance ◽

Aritz Bilbao-Jayo ◽

Rubén Mulero ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Human Life ◽

Well Being ◽

The Future ◽

The City

The introduction of the Information and Communication Technologies throughout the last decades has created a trend of providing daily objects with smartness, aiming to make human life more comfortable. The paradigm of Smart Cities arises as a response to the goal of creating the city of the future, where (1) the well-being and rights of their citizens are guaranteed, (2) industry and (3) urban planning is assessed from an environmental and sustainable viewpoint. Smart Cities still face some challenges in their implementation, but gradually more research projects of Smart Cities are funded and executed. Moreover, cities from all around the globe are implementing Smart City features to improve services or the quality of life of their citizens. Through this article, (1) we go through various definitions of Smart Cities in the literature, (2) we review the technologies and methodologies used nowadays, (3) we summarise the different domains of applications where these technologies and methodologies are applied (e.g. health and education), (4) we show the cities that have integrated the Smart City paradigm in their daily functioning and (5) we provide a review of the open research challenges. Finally, we discuss about the future opportunities for Smart Cities and the issues that must be tackled in order to move towards the cities of the future.

Characterization and Efficient Management of Big Data in IoT-Driven Smart City Development

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19112430 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (11) ◽

pp. 2430 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alaa Alsaig ◽

Vangalur Alagar ◽

Zaki Chammaa ◽

Nematollaah Shiri

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

City Development ◽

Efficient Management ◽

Service Oriented

Smart city is an emerging initiative for integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in effective ways to support development of smart cities with enhanced quality of life for its citizens through safe and secure context-aware services. Major technical challenges to realize smart cities include resource use optimization, service delivery without interruption at all times in all aspects, minimization of costs, and reduction of resource consumption. To address these challenges, new techniques and technologies are required for modeling and processing the big data generated and used through the underlying Internet of Things (IoT). To this end, we propose a data-centric approach to IoT in conceptualizing the “things” from a service-oriented perspective and investigate efficient ways to identify, integrate, and manage big data. The data-centric approach is expected to better support efficient management of data with complexities inherent in IoT-generated big data. Furthermore, it supports efficient and scalable query processing and reasoning techniques required in development of smart city applications. This article redresses the literature and contributes to the foundations of smart cities applications.

Smart city logistics

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202020804005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 208 ◽

pp. 04005

Author(s):

Gleb Savin

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Human Life ◽

Economic Resources ◽

Large Material ◽

Effective Use ◽

The City

It can be argued that the scientific paradigm of sustainable development is only partially formed and today there is constant research, searches for the form, and methods of its increment. In the scientific literature (political discussions), this is one of the most used terms due to the wider coverage of the studied areas, as well as a long history in retrospect. But today the most used term is the category of a smart city, which goes beyond the usual discussions about the development of information and communication technologies, and the effective use of information serves as the basis for effective management and functioning of the city. At the same time, logistics expands the possibilities for the formation of a smart city, contributes to economic development, an increase in the quality of human life, the efficiency of the use of economic resources, optimization of flow and non-flow processes, the accumulation of large material, financial, labor and other resources for a competitive practical goal, providing flexibility, adaptability, and competitiveness in conditions for the formation of a digital society.

Theory and Practice of Institutional Reforms in Russia: Collection of Scientific Works. Issue 50 ◽

Concept of Smart City and Ict Risks

10.33276/978-5-8211-0788-6-116-127 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 116-127

Author(s):

L.E. Varshavsky

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Development Trends ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Information And Communication

The article briefly analyzes trends in urban development. The definitions of «smart» cities are given; the features of a number of widely used ratings are analyzed. Development trends of the market of solutions for «smart» cities both in the world and in Russia are analyzed. Risks associated with the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) are discussed in detail, as well as still unresolved problems, which in the future may slow down the pace of implementation of «smart» cities projects

TODAY's SMART CITY TRENDS IN THE WORLD

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Economics and Law ◽

10.35634/2412-9593-2020-30-3-340-345 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 340-345

Author(s):

V.M. Katochkov ◽

G.V. Savin ◽

E.V. Toporkova

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Modern Trend ◽

Global Cities ◽

Global Power ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication

Digitalization today is a modern trend focused on streamlining processes and improving efficiency. The introduction of information and communication technologies has affected not only enterprises, but complex socio-economic systems as cities, and this predetermined the development of smart cities. Today, IBM, McKinsey or Price Waterhouse are considered the brain centers for the development of this concept, while Siemens, BMW, Mercedes Benz, IBM, Phillips, General Electric, etc., discovered the “smart” city as a future-oriented concept, and chose only that a niche in which they can offer their products and services. The development of smart cities is also influenced by intergovernmental organizations and their specialized departments, as well as research centers, institutes and laboratories. There are more than 100 cities in the world that claim the title of “smart city”. At the same time, their current ratings reflect the implementation of modern information and communication technologies in the life of a person with the aim of improving the quality of his life in the development of the urban environment. The IESE Cities in Motion Index, Global Power City Index, The Global Cities Index, The Global Cities Outlook, Juniper Research, EasyPark Smart City Index ratings provide sufficient and comprehensive indicators to give this title. The developed standards ISO 37120 and ISO 37122 determine the main indicators for smart cities, while the criteria that determine the achievement of city smartness are conditionally formed today, which allows to clarify the semantic loads implemented in this definition, namely, to prioritize technologies for people and society, improving quality of life, and highlight differences with other similar definitions.

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

SMART CITY SECURITY ISSUES: THE MAIN ATTACKS AND COUNTERMEASURES

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlvi-4-w5-2021-465-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol XLVI-4/W5-2021 ◽

pp. 465-472

Author(s):

O. Saber ◽

T. Mazri

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Smart City ◽

Data Confidentiality ◽

Good Practices ◽

Security Issues ◽

Social Environmental

Abstract. A smart city is an urban area based on a variety of services that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve operational efficiency and citizen's quality of life. It also leans towards meeting the economic, social, environmental, and cultural needs of dwellers. Technologies can add many benefits to smart city to facilitate communication and efficiently manage assets, resources, and services. However, technologies bring new security issues that need to be addressed to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This paper provides an overview of the smart city concept by highlighting its main applications and services, presenting some susceptible attacks that can touch the security of applications, and some good practices to ensure the smart city security.

Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics

Urban Planning ◽

10.17645/up.v5i1.2936 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 65-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrew Karvonen ◽

Matthew Cook ◽

Håvard Haarstad

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

First Century ◽

Lasting Influence

Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities while hopefully providing a better quality of life for residents. Urban planners have a long-standing tradition of aligning technological innovation with the built environment and residents but have been only peripherally engaged in smart cities debates to date. However, this situation is beginning to change as iconic, one-of-a-kind smart projects are giving way to the ‘actually existing’ smart city and ICT interventions are emerging as ubiquitous features of twenty-first century cities. The aim of this thematic issue is to explore the various ways that smart cities are influencing and being influenced by urban planning. The articles provide empirical evidence of how urban planners are engaging with processes of smart urbanisation through projects, practices, and politics. They reveal the profound and lasting influence of digitalisation on urban planning and the multiple opportunities for urban planners to serve as champions and drivers of the smart city.