Towards a Sustainable City: Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

Rapidly changing framework conditions for city development such as globalization, demographic trends, deindustrialization, technological developments or the increasing urbanization as well as the economic, social and political changes are profound and change our urban life. This leads, that the cities of tomorrow will differ essentially from today´s city principles. Therefore innovative, strategically wise and quick action becomes a criterion for success. Here, more than ever, local conditions and requirements must be taken into account as well as global framework conditions. The responsible parties have to set the course so that the “City” remains competitive and sustainable in the future. Therefore, innovation processes and sustainable strategies for dealing with the diverse and complex agendas of a city in dialogue with those who are responsible for it must be initiated and management systems established so that new things can develop continuously and systematically. This work illustrates how the boundaries created to manage and market future liveable and sustainable city destinations are the root of the practical and academic problems that trouble city management these days. This paper aims to develop the new integrated Smart Urban Profiling and Management model, which presents a new integrated approach for city marketing as an instrument of sustainable urban development. In this way, comprehensive research was conducted to evaluate if the holistic city marketing concept that integrates elements of smart city strategies and adaptive management is a more suitable instrument and integrative process than conventional city marketing in order to improve the sustainable urban development. Therefore, in this work, the designed “Smart Urban Profiling and Management model” for city management introduces an alternative and holistic perspective that allows transcending past boundaries and thus getting closer to the real complexities of managing city development in dynamic systems. The results offer the opportunity to recognize the city and consequently allow to developing successful strategies and implementation measures. This study targets to contribute to this endeavor in order to produce new impulses and incitements in the city management field and shall provide a fresh impetus for a new understanding of city marketing as the initiator of development processes, mobilization and moderator in concerning communication and participation processes. This paper is written from a perspective addressing those responsible for the city- management, city- & urban marketing and development.

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Priority-based stakeholders analysis in the view of sustainable city logistics: Evidence for Tricity, Poland

Sustainable Cities and Society ◽

10.1016/j.scs.2021.102751 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 67 ◽

pp. 102751

Author(s):

Jagienka Rześny-Cieplińska ◽

Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz ◽

Sarbast Moslem

Keyword(s):

City Logistics ◽

Sustainable City

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Sustainable Smart City—Opening a Black Box

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020769 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 769

Author(s):

Mona Treude

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Smart City ◽

Evolutionary Economics ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Smart Services ◽

Underlying Processes

Cities are becoming digital and are aiming to be sustainable. How they are combining the two is not always apparent from the outside. What we need is a look from inside. In recent years, cities have increasingly called themselves Smart City. This can mean different things, but generally includes a look towards new digital technologies and claim that a Smart City has various advantages for its citizens, roughly in line with the demands of sustainable development. A city can be seen as smart in a narrow sense, technology wise, sustainable or smart and sustainable. Current city rankings, which often evaluate and classify cities in terms of the target dimensions “smart” and “sustainable”, certify that some cities are both. In its most established academic definitions, the Smart City also serves both to improve the quality of life of its citizens and to promote sustainable development. Some cities have obviously managed to combine the two. The question that arises is as follows: What are the underlying processes towards a sustainable Smart City and are cities really using smart tools to make themselves sustainable in the sense of the 2015 United Nations Sustainability Goal 11? This question is to be answered by a method that has not yet been applied in research on cities and smart cities: the innovation biography. Based on evolutionary economics, the innovation biography approaches the process towards a Smart City as an innovation process. It will highlight which actors are involved, how knowledge is shared among them, what form citizen participation processes take and whether the use of digital and smart services within a Smart City leads to a more sustainable city. Such a process-oriented method should show, among other things, to what extent and when sustainability-relevant motives play a role and which actors and citizens are involved in the process at all.

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An integrated importance-performance analysis and modified analytic hierarchy process approach to sustainable city assessment

Environmental Science and Pollution Research ◽

10.1007/s11356-021-15235-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Say Wah Lee ◽

Ke Xue

Keyword(s):

Performance Analysis ◽

Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽

Process Approach ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Hierarchy Process

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Exposing Emerging Trends in Smart Sustainable City Research Using Deep Autoencoders-Based Fuzzy C-Means

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13052876 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 2876

Author(s):

Anne Parlina ◽

Kalamullah Ramli ◽

Hendri Murfi

Keyword(s):

Topic Modeling ◽

Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Detection Methods ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Fuzzy C Means ◽

Progressive Development ◽

Emerging Trends ◽

Energy Environment ◽

Non Negative Matrix Factorization

The literature discussing the concepts, technologies, and ICT-based urban innovation approaches of smart cities has been growing, along with initiatives from cities all over the world that are competing to improve their services and become smart and sustainable. However, current studies that provide a comprehensive understanding and reveal smart and sustainable city research trends and characteristics are still lacking. Meanwhile, policymakers and practitioners alike need to pursue progressive development. In response to this shortcoming, this research offers content analysis studies based on topic modeling approaches to capture the evolution and characteristics of topics in the scientific literature on smart and sustainable city research. More importantly, a novel topic-detecting algorithm based on the deep learning and clustering techniques, namely deep autoencoders-based fuzzy C-means (DFCM), is introduced for analyzing the research topic trend. The topics generated by this proposed algorithm have relatively higher coherence values than those generated by previously used topic detection methods, namely non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), and eigenspace-based fuzzy C-means (EFCM). The 30 main topics that appeared in topic modeling with the DFCM algorithm were classified into six groups (technology, energy, environment, transportation, e-governance, and human capital and welfare) that characterize the six dimensions of smart, sustainable city research.

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