scholarly journals Appraisal of Smart City, Compact/Resilient City and Sustainable City: implications for Design

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Augusta I.E. ◽  
Jerry N.O. ◽  
Justus N.O.
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Resilient Design ◽  
Developed World

In recent times the concepts of smart city, compact city, resilient city, resilient design, sustainable design and sustainable city have crept into city/ environmental planning/design discourse and practice. While the meanings are not clearly understood especially as they apply to cities of a developing country like Nigeria, there seems to be a very thin divide between them. This study appraised these terms with respect to their intrinsic design principles in a bid to make the professionals and the stakeholders in our built environment aware of their implicit need for application to Nigerian cities. The methodology relied on literature review of the terms and concepts. The study drew examples from the developed world to establish that the definitions of these concepts and terms are overlapping and complimentary. The concepts are also found to be applicable to Nigerian cities in the identified circumstances therein. Although some frameworks were identified, no cook-book or methodological pathways for their application to cities generally was encountered in the literature surveyed. It is hoped that the study has exposed their implications for current and future urban planning and design paradigms in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Smart and Regenerative Urban Growth: A Literature Network Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Peponi ◽  
Paulo Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

“Smart city”, “sustainable city”, “ubiquitous city”, “smart sustainable city”, “eco-city”, “regenerative city” are fuzzy concepts; they are established to mitigate the negative impact on urban growth while achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability. This study presents the result of the literature network analysis exploring the state of the art in the concepts of smart and regenerative urban growth under urban metabolism framework. Heat-maps of impact citations, cutting-edge research on the topic, tip-top ideas, concepts, and theories are highlighted and revealed through VOSviewer bibliometrics based on a selection of 1686 documents acquired from Web of Science, for a timespan between 2010 and 2019. This study discloses that urban growth is a complex phenomenon that covers social, economic, and environmental aspects, and the overlaps between them, leading to a diverse range of concepts on urban development. In regards to our concepts of interest, smart, and regenerative urban growth, we see that there is an absence of conceptual contiguity since both concepts have been approached on an individual basis. This fact unveils the need to adopt a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach to urban planning and design, integrating these concepts to improve the quality of life and public health in urban areas.

scholarly journals Smart city: automatic reconstruction of 3D building models to support urban development and planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 03047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Danilina ◽  
Mihail Slepnev ◽  
Spartak Chebotarev
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Smart City ◽  
3D Models ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Building Models ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Territories ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
Planning Problems

The spread of smart city technologies dictates the need to develop new methods in the field of urban planning and design. The article devotes to the question how to find new approaches to make digital urban project according to the BIMtechnology. We analyze the opportunities of automated design technology BuildingReconstruction 2018 that allows constructing 3D models of landscapes, urban territories and infrastructure objects. Their distinctive feature is their high accuracy of details. We consider methods and tools for creating such models. There is the description of a 3d-model and composing information layers. On the base of the analysis of the model–s capabilities, we offer various directions how to use them for solving urban planning problems addressed to the examples of their existing implementation.

scholarly journals Ecological Urban Planning and Design: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Heymans ◽  
Jessica Breadsell ◽  
Gregory Morrison ◽  
Joshua Byrne ◽  
Christine Eon
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Design Paradigm

Urbanization is a defining feature of the modern age, yet the current model of urban development profoundly alters the natural environment, often reducing biodiversity and ultimately threatening human wellbeing. An ecologically based urban planning and design paradigm should consider a more harmonious relationship. Through a systematic literature review of 57 papers, this research identified relevant concepts and theories that could underpin this new paradigm. It revealed a noticeable increase in academic interest in this subject since 2013 and the development of concepts and theories that reflect a more holistic socio-ecological systems approach to urban planning and design based on a transdisciplinary integration and synthesis of research. Seven main themes underpin the academic literature: ecosystem services, socio-ecological systems, resilience, biodiversity, landscape, green infrastructure, as well as integrated and holistic approaches. Six of these can be organised into either a sustainability stream or a spatial stream, representing the foundations of a potential new ecological urban planning and design paradigm that applies sustainability-related concepts in a spatial setting. The final theme, integrated and holistic, includes concepts that reflect the fundamental characteristics of this new paradigm, which can be termed ‘urban consonance’.

scholarly journals Impacts of Built Environment on Urban Vitality: Regression Analyses of Beijing and Chengdu, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 4592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiwei Lu ◽  
Chaoyang Shi ◽  
Xiping Yang
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Environment Factors ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Four Levels

The loss of urban vitality is an important problem in the development of urban central areas. Analyzing the correlation between urban built environment and urban vitality supports urban planning and design. However, current research excludes the study of how consistent built environment factors affect urban vitality of cities with different development situations. Therefore, using social media check-in data, this paper measures neighborhood vibrancy in urban central areas in Beijing and Chengdu, China. Four levels of spatial information were used to measure the built environment: regulatory planning management unit (RPMU), land use, road network, and building. Regression model is used to quantify the correlation between urban vitality and the built environment of these two cities. The study found a strong correlation between built environment factors and urban vitality. Among the built environment factors, points of interest (POI) diversity and public transport accessibility indicators were strongly positively correlated with neighborhood vibrancy. However, the density indicators had totally different effects on urban vitality of cities with different development situations, which is excluded in existing studies. This research strengthens the practical understanding of the compact city concept, and can support the design and planning of urban built environment.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Conceptually Related Smart Cities (CRSCs) Services from the Perspective of Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3334
Author(s):  
Nammi Kim ◽  
Seungwoo Yang
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Keyword Analysis

A smart city has developed gradually with the evolution of services and ICT technologies to achieve sustainability. Many academic and governmental documents reference this; however, there is no existing theoretical or empirical study on the characteristics of smart city services regarding sustainability. In this sense, this study aims to clarify characteristics of Conceptually Related Smart Cities (CRSCs) services from sustainability. The methodologies adopt a matrix taxonomy to sort the previous indicators in the first step. It also utilizes a keyword analysis based on a literature review to identify the characteristics of two concepts. Three outcomes result from the steps of theoretical structures. Firstly, this study develops SSC service indicators based on the synthesis of Sustainable Smart City (SSC) and Smart City and sustainable city. The second outcome is an identification of the relation between SSC services and Conceptually Related Smart Cities. Lastly, the study clarifies the significance of citizen engagement based on the evolutionary concept by typifying service development in the lens of sustainability in CRSCs. This study is worthwhile for understanding smart city services and managing different featured smart cities from a sustainability perspective.

scholarly journals CIM And CIM Platform Practical Use in China Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022143
Author(s):  
Skirmante Mozuriunaite ◽  
Gu Haiyan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Implementation Problems

Abstract City Information Modelling (CIM) is becoming an important base model of Smart City and Digital Twin City, which can realise intelligent city design and management. Lately, CIM has become the focuses of urban planning and design studies. Under the influence of building information model (BIM), smart city and three-dimensional city simulation, city-level information modelling, CIM connects different BIM levels integrates the spatial expression effect of GIS. This review introduces CIM development from using generating procedures, such as rules and typological processes, to analyse urban scenarios to form the city full information scene through the integration of BIM, GIS, and IoT. The paper also overviews the technical path of construction with CIM implementation, problems existing in the current practice of CIM technology, including all information of digital and lightweight data, scene fast calls and data standard uniformity, etc. Following the latest CIM progress, the paper puts forward some ways to realise the effective use of CIM in urban planning and design. The further review focuses on big data security, publicity, urban design element and CIM platform practical use in China.

The Atmospheres of Urban Environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Hisham Abusaada
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter investigates the ambiguity of the word “atmospheres” in the fields of urban studies. It examines the justifications (plausibility) beyond its uses, with the terms that are focusing on the perceptual qualities. The author investigated the uses of the word “atmospheres” from the beginning of the 17th century to the year 2020, a period which he divided into four stages. The investigation covered the work of 27 thinkers in the fields of natural sciences and humanities, including 10 in architecture disciplines, in addition to 28 manuscripts that addressed the relationship between atmospheres in the areas of architecture, particularly urban planning and design and urban landscape architecture between 1998 and 2020. The outcomes were developed through a comprehensive literature review by gaps analysis and a deductive online survey with 58 specialized participants, using SurveyMonkey. This chapter contributes to the rationale that an urban designer can use to study people's changing feelings, emotions, and moods according to the understanding of the terms related to atmospheres.

scholarly journals Does Environmental Walkability Matter? The Role of Walkable Environment in Active Commuting

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Jung Kim ◽  
Jiyeong Kim ◽  
Hyunjung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Active Commuting ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Point Increase ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
Multilevel Logistic Regression Model

Since walkability plays an important role in active commuting, several cities are actively promoting its integration into urban and environmental planning policies. This study examined the association between walkability and active commuting in Seoul, Korea. A multilevel logistic regression model was used to examine the correlation between Walkability Score and the probability of active commuting after controlling for individual variables. The analysis used 129,044 individual samples nested within 424 administrative districts (dongs). In this study, three models were tested: Model 1 contained only individual variables, Model 2 contained individual variables and Walkability Score, and Model 3 included neighborhood-level variables in addition to the variables of Model 2. The results showed that the Walkability Score was significantly correlated with the odds of active commuting. Specifically, every additional one-point increase in Walkability Score was associated with 0.3% higher odds of active commuting (Model 2: odds ratio (OR) = 1.003, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.001–1.005; Model 3: OR = 1.003, 95% CI = 1.001–1.006). Additionally, public transportation density was also positively correlated with the odds of active commuting. The odds of active commuting were positively correlated with younger age, female, lower-income, and having no car. Based on the findings, policy recommendations in urban planning and design, transport engineering, and environmental planning are provided.

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