Developing Smart Cities in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenxuan Yu ◽  
Chengwei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
City Development ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Innovation

This article describes how being pushed and pulled by a variety of external and internal factors, the Chinese government had begun to adopt and implement its smart city initiatives. Despite the strong financial and institutional supports from the central government, the performances of smart city initiatives significantly vary across pilot sites. Considering smart city initiatives as government innovation and drawing on the government innovation diffusion theories, an explanatory model has been developed to examine their variance and test it with a cross-sectional dataset using multiple regression methods. It was found that although environmental pollution was a key driver for the development of smart city in China, such environmental pollution like air pollution in particular had a curvilinear relationship (bell-shaped) with smart city development. In addition, smart cities initiatives in China were driven not only by technical rationalities but also political rationalities. Political supports from local ruling party sectaries made a difference.

A City for Smart Technology Transformation

2022 ◽  
pp. 130-150
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Development ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Technology Transformation ◽  
The City

The main purpose of this chapter is to present how a smart city is governed, managed, and operated. It describes smart city governance and identifies the special relation the government of the city would have with the citizens as well as communities. In addition, governance considerations related to operations are described, including critical city government challenges. The second important topic in this chapter is the City-Citizens Relations highlighting urban growth, needed investments, and role of smart technologies in the city development. In addition, other issues include strategic goals of smart cities, strategic framework for city governments, and financing smart city projects.

Policy Recommendations on the Application of AI to the Development of Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Kangjuan Lyu ◽  
Miao Hao
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
City Development ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Visible Hand ◽  
Orientation Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
Technology Orientation

Building a smart city requires maintaining “wisdom” in concept, which requires scientific top-level design to properly handle the contradiction between partial interests and overall interests. Its ultimate goal of urban development is to serve people, so equal importance should go to both construction and operation. This chapter emphasizes trading-off some relationships in smart city development, such as diversity and homogeneity, technology orientation and demand orientation, information sharing and information security, the invisible hand of the market with the visible hand of the government, etc.. Finally, it puts forward adopting the development mode that drives overall development through typical examples as a good way.

scholarly journals Smart city development projects in the Republic of Korea

R-Economy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Young-Sang Choi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Evolutionary Analysis ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Japan And China

Research relevance. The article discusses the experience of South Korea in the sphere of smart city projects. The study's relevance is determined, on the one hand, by the role smart cities play in the creation of the new urban living space, in enhancement of urban economy and, on the other, by the need to analyze and systematize the best practices of smart city development. Research aim. The study describes the development of the 'smart city' concept in South Korea. Smart city is understood as a complex eco-system, which, on the one hand, comprises a range of technological and socio-economic processes and, on the other, involves such actors as government, corporations, research organizations and urban communities. Data and methodology. The study relies on methods of comparative and evolutionary analysis to analyze the concept of smart city and its structure by focusing on the case of South Korea, the world's renowned ICT leader. The study also provides cross-national comparisons of the experience of other developed Asian countries (Japan and China), which, like South Korea, are actively supporting building of smart cities on the state level. Results. The study describes the main stages in the development of the smart city concept in South Korea as well as the main types of smart city projects (pilot projects, research validation projects, and city restoration projects). The study identifies problems of planning, design and implementation of smart city projects and compares the relevant experience of South Korea, Japan and China. It is shown that although smart city projects in these countries were launched in approximately the same period, each of these countries has its own approach to smart cities and ways of their development. Conclusions. The key to Korea's success in smart city development lies in large-scale direct state support, public trust in the government and the application of an integrated approach to smart city development. At the current stage, smart city services not only provide enhanced comfort to city dwellers but also create more opportunities for their personal growth.

scholarly journals The Application of the Latest Technologies for Smart City Construction in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufang Huang ◽  
Hongtao Peng ◽  
Aocheng Zhong ◽  
Zhiyuan Zhou ◽  
Massoud Sofi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
City Development ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Visualization Technology ◽  
City Construction

With the continuous emergence and application of new technologies, the construction of smart cities has entered the practical promotion period. Since 2012, the pilot construction of smart city has been promoted by the government in China. On the basis of these practical experiences, this paper presents an overview of the latest technologies and applications for smart city construction in China and demonstrates that smart city strategy needs to be implemented according to local conditions, adhering to the people-oriented concept and using scientific and effective top-level design and planning. The construction of smart city is comprehensive system engineering, including the integration of geographic information sharing service platform, full-cycle management and control system of urban planning, construction and social management, as well as intelligent business information management system of gardening, water conservancy, environmental protection and other industries and departments. The information system (GIS), satellite remote sensing (SRS), global navigation satellite system (GNSS), Internet of things, mobile applications, cloud computing, visualization technology ware used to promote urban construction and sustainable development, and to meet the needs of future smart city development. Results show that centralized management is very important for the construction of smart city. The government plays a major role in the construction of smart city, which will be conducive to the development of new technologies and the effective use of smart city construction resources.

The Development of Smart Cities in the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Kangjuan Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Development ◽  
Continuous Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

In this chapter, the development of some typical smart cities are illustrated, and the successful experiences are summarized. The authors first overviewed the smart city development in China as the government-oriented mode. Shanghai and Hangzhou are taken as examples. They then overviewed smart city development in Europe and America. Finally they analyzed innovation is the key for smart city, including continuous innovation of AI technology and its application, innovative residents, innovative enterprises, innovative government, and innovative organizational platform.

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges for the Construction of a Smart City Geo-Spatial Framework in a Small Urban Area in Central China

Smart Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Huini Wang ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Ming Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Central China ◽  
Digital City ◽  
City Development ◽  
Spatial Framework ◽  
Central Government Agencies

In 2006, China lunched its first Digital City initiative to build a national geo-spatial framework. Over the past ten years, 511 county-cities benefited from the national initiative with funding and technical resources channeled from the central government. Has the initiative achieved its goals? How has the geo-spatial framework affected local governmental administration, public services, business operation, and the daily life of citizens? What lessons can be learned from the ten-year experience of digital city development? Answering these questions is of important policy, scholarly, and practical interest. The Digital City initiative set the foundation for building smart cities that China’s central government agencies and many local municipalities are currently pursuing. A review in retrospect of China’s digital city development helps inform future Smart City investment decisions and related policy making in the nation. Lessons learned from the Chinese experience are also valuable to cities in other countries.

Public Trust and Political Legitimacy in the Smart City: A Reckoning for Technocracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392199286
Author(s):  
Kris Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
City Development ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The 2020 introduction by China’s central government of a national security law (NSL) in Hong Kong marked a watershed moment in the social and political history of the semiautonomous city. The law emerged after months of street protests that reflected declining public trust in Hong Kong’s government. Against this turbulent backdrop, Hong Kong’s policy projects moved forward, including smart city development. This article explores public trust in and political legitimacy of Hong Kong’s smart cities endeavors in the period leading up to the introduction of the NSL. At a theoretical level, the smart cities phenomenon invites critical reflection about tensions between technocracy and democracy, but this topic remains largely unexploited by empirical literature. Using survey data from 1,017 residents, this study identifies confidence in the benefits of smart cities but lesser trust in privacy and security and lesser satisfaction with participation opportunities in related policymaking. Probing these dynamics, the study finds that trust in smart city mechanics and governance associate positively with support for smart cities, controlling for ideology and issue awareness. Illuminating a theoretical and practical puzzle, these findings contribute empirically to discussions about the political legitimacy of scientific, technological, and technocratic undertakings in the public sector.

scholarly journals Development of Smart Cities in India – Dream to Reality

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranav Suresh ◽  
Suresh Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Jobs

<em>Cities are engines of growth that would be driving India’s transformation into a developed economy. With India set to become the youngest country in the world by 2020 requiring 10 to 12 million new jobs every year, the government has initiated The Smart Cities Mission to promote large scale planned urbanisation to create conducive atmosphere for promoting accelerated growth and development. As India embarks on this journey to create engines of growth to drive the country’s development this paper outlines the path for making this dream a reality. The paper puts forward strategies for planned urbanisation, guidelines for smart city development and elaborates on the toughest summits to peak in this quest to transform urban India.</em>

scholarly journals Implementation of Project Management Concept for Conversion into a Smart City: A Case Study on Agartala

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swarup Paul
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Competent Authority ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Government

Abstract Recently the smart city concept has become a burning topic in India. The government of India has already selected more than hundred cities to be converted into smart cities. Agartala, the capital of Tripura, is one of such selected cities. There are numerous applications of engineering aspects in the course of conversion of a city into a smart city. Project Management is one such area which has tremendous application in smart city development. But extensive literature reviews show only the concept, various constituents, and effects of a smart city on its citizens. No systematic procedure of implementation of different activities with a view to converting a city into a smart city using the concept of Project Management from nascent stage has been found in literature. Application of Project Management can help a lot the competent authority to get a clear idea on different components of smart city project. The present work highlights the application of Project Management on smart city development. Agartala city has been considered as a case study for this present work due to its typical geographical location as well as different activities it requires to start with. The degree of importance of different activities in the network diagram of the project has been decided by applying multi criteria decision making tools. Thus, this present work finally determines the total project completion time together with critical activities of the project. This work can give rise to a general idea in the competent authorities dealing with other cities also.

China will lead the world in smart city development

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
City Development ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
The Government

Subject Smart cities in China. Significance China’s urbanisation level has reached 58%. By mid-century it will be close to the 80% seen in most developed countries. The government sees smart cities as a solution to many of the problems that could accompany this rapid urbanisation. If Chinese technology firms can develop effective technical solutions to problems such as pollution, traffic and public safety, they will be well-positioned to expand their business globally. Impacts Developed nations and close US allies will generally resist allowing Chinese tech companies to play a role in their urban infrastructure. Smart cities promise to make in-home care for the elderly easier, which would help China deal with demographic ageing. Smart cities in China will benefit from the country’s leadership in 5G. Chinese firms will gain first-mover advantage in smart city applications that rely on 5G technology, such as autonomous vehicles. Smart cities in China are likely to incorporate elements that facilitate surveillance and repression.

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