Challenges Faced by Megacities in the Future

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Assadian ◽  
Mostafa Nejati
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The City

The advancement of science, industry, and digital technologies has shaped the lives of many people and has encouraged more people to live in cities. Since 2007, the urban population has exceeded the rural, and this amount is estimated to increase up to 60% of world habitants by 2030, according to the United Nations. Considering that these changes in people’s lifestyle can create various challenges to society, identifying and managing the potential future challenges is a vital step to ensure a dignified living without conflicts. This paper studies the challenges that cities and megacities may face in the future and provides solutions to manage and handle them. Reports and statistics from international organizations and the authors’ critical analysis have been applied to collect the necessary data. The research findings emphasize the importance of enhanced competitiveness and the quality of life and environment on the development of the city. Moreover, the major infrastructural problems facing cities in the digital world are discussed and the importance of strategic planning and sustainable approach toward resolving urban issues are emphasized.

Challenges Faced by Megacities in the Future

2013 ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
Ali Assadian ◽  
Mostafa Nejati
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The City

The advancement of science, industry, and digital technologies has shaped the lives of many people and has encouraged more people to live in cities. Since 2007, the urban population has exceeded the rural, and this amount is estimated to increase up to 60% of world habitants by 2030, according to the United Nations. Considering that these changes in people’s lifestyle can create various challenges to society, identifying and managing the potential future challenges is a vital step to ensure a dignified living without conflicts. This paper studies the challenges that cities and megacities may face in the future and provides solutions to manage and handle them. Reports and statistics from international organizations and the authors’ critical analysis have been applied to collect the necessary data. The research findings emphasize the importance of enhanced competitiveness and the quality of life and environment on the development of the city. Moreover, the major infrastructural problems facing cities in the digital world are discussed and the importance of strategic planning and sustainable approach toward resolving urban issues are emphasized.

scholarly journals Smart cities and robotic technologies for a model of integrated growth

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Elena Laudante
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The City

The paper focuses on the importance of robotics and artificial intelligence inside of the new urban contexts in which it is possible to consider and enhance the different dimensions of quality of life such as safety and health, environmental quality, social connection and civic participation. Smart technologies help cities to meet the new challenges of society, thus making them more livable, attractive and responsive in order to plan and to improve the city of the future. In accordance with the Agenda 2030 Program for sustainable development that intends the inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable city, the direction of growth and prosperity of urban environments is pursued by optimizing the use of resources and respecting the environment. In the current society, robotic technology is proposed as a tool for innovation and evolution in urban as well as industrial and domestic contexts. On the one hand the users-citizens who participate dynamically in the activities and on the other the new technological systems integrated in the urban fabric. Existing urban systems that are “amplified” of artificial and digital intelligence and give life to smart cities, physical places that allow new forms of coexistence between humans and robots in order to implement the level of quality of life and define “human centered” innovative solutions and services thus responding to the particular needs of people in an effective and dynamic way. The current city goes beyond the definition of smart city. In fact, as said by Carlo Ratti, it becomes a "senseable city", a city capable of feeling but also sensitive and capable of responding to citizens who define the overall performance of the city. The multidisciplinary approach through the dialogue between designers, architects, engineers and urban planners will allow to face the new challenges through the dynamics of robot integration in the urban landscape. The cities of the future, in fact, will be pervaded by autonomous driving vehicles, robotized delivery systems and light transport solutions, in response to the new concept of smart mobility, on a human scale, shared and connected mobility in order to improve management and control of the digitized and smart city. Automation at constant rates as the keystone for urban futures and new models of innovative society. Through the identification of representative case studies in the field of innovative systems it will be possible to highlight the connections between design, smart city and "urban" robotics that will synergically highlight the main "desirable" qualities of life in the city as a place of experimentation and radical transformations. In particular, parallel to the new robotic solutions and human-robot interactions, the design discipline will be responsible for designing the total experience of the user who lives in synergy with the robots, thus changing the socio-economic dynamics of the city.

scholarly journals “Future Patient” Telerehabilitation for Patients With Heart Failure: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

10.2196/14517 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. e14517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birthe Dinesen ◽  
Lars Dittmann ◽  
Josefine Dam Gade ◽  
Cecilia Klitgaard Jørgensen ◽  
Malene Hollingdal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Illness Perception ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Patients With Heart Failure ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Patient

Background Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for 13%-15% of all deaths. Cardiac rehabilitation has poor compliance and adherence. Telerehabilitation has been introduced to increase patients’ participation, access, and adherence with the help of digital technologies. The target group is patients with heart failure. A telerehabilitation program called “Future Patient” has been developed and consists of three phases: (1) titration of medicine (0-3 months), (2) implementation of the telerehabilitation protocols (3 months), and (3) follow-up with rehabilitation in everyday life (6 months). Patients in the Future Patient program measure their blood pressure, pulse, weight, number of steps taken, sleep, and respiration and answer questions online regarding their well-being. All data are transmitted and accessed in the HeartPortal by patients and health care professionals. Objective The aim of this paper is to describe the research design, outcome measures, and data collection techniques in the clinical test of the Future Patient Telerehabilitation Program for patients with heart failure. Methods A randomized controlled study will be performed. The intervention group will follow the Future Patient Telerehabilitation program, and the control group will follow the traditional cardiac rehabilitation program. The primary outcome is quality of life measured by the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire. Secondary outcomes are development of clinical data; illness perception; motivation; anxiety and depression; health and electronic health literacy; qualitative exploration of patients’, spouses’, and health care professionals’ experiences of participating in the telerehabilitation program; and a health economy evaluation of the program. Outcomes were assessed using questionnaires and through the data generated by digital technologies. Results Data collection began in December 2016 and will be completed in October 2019. The study results will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. Results from the Future Patient Telerehabilitation program are expected to be published by the spring of 2020. Conclusions The expected outcomes are increased quality of life, increased motivation and illness perception, reduced anxiety and depressions, improved electronic health literacy, and health economics benefits. We expect the study to have a clinical impact for future telerehabilitation of patients with heart failure. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03388918; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03388918 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/14517

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN KEAGAMAAN DAN MASYARAKAT MINORITAS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahid Khozin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Writing Community

AbstractThe research undertaken in one of regencies with Moslem minority is aimed at understanding the condition of religious educational institutions, religious values taught and community expectation with respect to religious education in the future. The research findings show that numerous components of religious educational institutions, including their numbers, were so insufficient. The types of religious educations provided were oriented to the cultivation of religious principles such as faith-morals, daily prayers, and al-Quran reading and writing. Community expected that religious education in the future be increased both in their quantity and the quality of the materials transferred.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie W. Cawthon ◽  
Carrie Lou Garberoglio ◽  
Peter C. Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Deaf Education ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
The Invisible

This chapter marks the conclusion of this edited volume, Research in Deaf Education. The purpose of the volume as a whole is to identify strategies for improving the quality of research in deaf education; the conclusion summarizes main themes that both cut across chapters and extend arguments made by individual chapter authors. Overarching themes include discussions around standards for research quality; the positionality of researchers; and how we obtain, interpret, and translate research findings for diverse audiences. In each of these themes we recognize challenges that the field faces as well as opportunities for further dialog and collaboration for addressing these challenges in the future. The chapter concludes with strategies for mentoring the next generation of scholars in deaf education, with an emphasis on incorporating diverse perspectives, making the invisible culture of academia visible to deaf scholars, and ways to increase the accessibility of deaf education research.

The Necessity of Myth in Updike's The Centaur

PMLA ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward P. Vargo
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death ◽  
The Future ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
The City ◽  
The Universe

The Centaur is a complete ritual, a patterned ceremony of word and action in which Peter Caldwell celebrates his former experiences with his father. The explicit use of the Greek Chiron-myth serves the functions of comedy, a sign of Caldwell's estrangement from the Olinger aristocrats, and a quality of Peter's memories. What sustained Peter during the three days that he spent in town with his father was his adolescent myth of Art, the City, and the Future, by which he hoped to answer the tyranny of time and the inevitability of death. Now, in his atheist maturity, with that myth tarnished, he must depend upon a reenactment of his father's sacrifices for him, another myth that enables him to face the transcendent questions of time, life, and death. Man is presented as a creature in the middle, a participant in the conceivable and the inconceivable, a mediator between heaven and earth. The ritual actions of The Centaur—notably the lectures on the universe by Caldwell and Chiron, the obituary, and George's acceptance of life in the final chapter— serve as actions of communion or as actions against death in an atmosphere of the Barthian visibilia et itwisibilia.

scholarly journals ANALISISSIKAP FAIR PLAYPADA PERMAINAN FUTSALSMA SE-KOTA BINJAI

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nurkadri Nurkadri ◽  
Rini Andriani ◽  
Imam Aris Munandar Hutagaol
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City ◽  
Collection Methods

This research is to find out how much is the understanding of the attitude of fair play in high school clubs in the city of Binjai. The research sample, namely the high school futsal club in the city of Binjai, among them are SMAN 1 Binjai, SMAN 2 Binjai, SMAN 4 Binjai, and SMAN 5 Binjai with 70 respondents. Data collection methods using questionnaire techniques that will be filled by respondents, the data were analyzed using descriptive analysis of percentages. Based on the results of the study note that the award for opposing players was 14.54%, cheating 5.3%, playing skills 9.3%, and respecting teammates 16.78%. It can be concluded that most of the futsal clubs in the city of Binjai are sufficient in understanding fair play. The researcher suggests to the school to pay more attention to improving the quality of coaching in futsal training in schools in giving a fair play attitude. The trainer must continue to improve teaching the understanding of fair play on an ongoing basis to their students. So that in the future an exciting and fun futsal game will be created,avoiding cheating and increasingly upholding the spirit of fair play.

scholarly journals Socio-urban aspects of the pandemic crisis in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 837-863
Author(s):  
Jelena Božilović ◽  
Jelena Petković
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

The paper deals with the discussion of cities from a socio-ecological perspective, from the standpoint of health and quality of life from the time of the first industrialisation to the current social crisis. Rethinking the connection between health and life in the city in modern social theory has resulted in new constructive concepts of the city, and some ideas of such concepts in the current situation may be guidelines for the development of cities of the future. The second segment of the paper is based on the analysis of selected results of the broader empirical research conducted in 2020 by anonymous online survey and applying comparative-analytical and statistical methods. The respondents' views on the quality of life in the city and countryside at the time of the pandemic generally show that, despite the fact that the respondents evaluate the countryside more positively than the city, their attitude is such that minority of them agree with the fact that the experience with the pandemic will direct people to life outside cities in the future.

The Rise of Digitalization in the Tourism Industry During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 843-862
Author(s):  
Öznur Akgiş İlhan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Tourism Geography ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
The Future ◽  
Planning Tools ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Research Findings

Undoubtedly, tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, it is one of the most important issues in tourism research. The strategies implemented in combating the pandemic caused a significant increase in the use of digital technologies in tourism. In this context, in this chapter, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism on digitalization are examined in the context of transportation, accommodation, food and beverage, and tourist experience. Research findings indicate that the traditional concept of space in tourism geography is in a transformation towards cyberspace. The pandemic has proven our need for digital strategies and planning tools in tourism. The future will be a time when smart and cyber tourism is increasingly discussed.

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 155014771985398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera ◽  
Adrián Nuñez-Marcos ◽  
Jesus Sesma-Solance ◽  
Aritz Bilbao-Jayo ◽  
Rubén Mulero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
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.

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