PRIORITIES OF CANADA URBAN DEVELOPMENT: FROM SUSTAINABLE TO SMART CITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-183
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Kolomechiuk
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Innovative System

The article deals with the priorities and dynamics of the Canada urban development and describes the sustainable cities evolution. The purpose of the work is to compare the main achievements in the implementation of sustainable cities in Canada and to outline the problems and prospects of the formation of smart cities. To date smart cities is also an innovative system, where technologies are used to improve the relationship between citizens and their governments and provide social innovation and improve quality of life. A sustainable and smart cities is a place where citizens work with local authorities to improve service delivery, develop community initiatives and create solutions to improve quality of life. In this context, it is important to analyze the current policy of sustainable urban development in Canada in order to identify problem points and formulate recommendations for further de-velopment.

Integration Challenges of Immigrants in Smart Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Susana Bernardino ◽  
J. Freitas Santos
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Human Element ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Holistic Vision

The most recent interpretations of the concept of smart city (SC) highlight the need for adopting a more holistic vision of SC, which includes other relevant features for understanding the dynamism of urban development and face new challenges. The study of a social entrepreneurship initiative (SPEAK) that aims to empower immigrants living in the main Portuguese cities is the method used in this research to understand the extent to which social innovation can make smart cities more human and sustainable. The results illustrate how a social entrepreneurship initiative can positively impact the creation of social value to immigrants in cities. As the evidence shows, the full integration of foreign migrants in cities may contribute to the sustainable resolution (or avoidance) of many severe social dysfunctions, as well as for the improvement of the quality of life of foreign migrants and local citizens. The approach adopted, based on the empowerment of the human element, is able to produce a sustainable response and contribute to other dimensions of SC.

scholarly journals Desenvolvimento urbano sustentável e qualidade de vida: uma pesquisa bibliométrica das publicações na base Web of Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 459-477
Author(s):  
Pabla Pereira da Silva ◽  
Roberto Schoproni Bichueti ◽  
Carlos Rafael Röhrig da Costa ◽  
Gabriela Dubou ◽  
Estela dos Anjos Pires
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development

Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar as características da produção científica relacionadas às temáticas desenvolvimento urbano sustentável (sustainable urban development) e qualidade de vida (quality of life), por meio da base de dados Web of Science (WoS), no período de 2008 a 2017. Para isso, o estudo possui uma abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa, onde a etapa quantitativa buscou identificar algumas variáveis acerca da produção científica sobre Desenvolvimento Urbano Sustentável e Qualidade de Vida e a etapa qualitativa buscou analisar os conteúdos presentes nos dez artigos mais citados, de acordo com o relatório de citações da Web of Science. A partir da pesquisa realizada, pode-se constatar que os estudos sobre desenvolvimento urbano sustentável e qualidade de vida são emergentes e estão em constante evolução. Além disso, foi possível verificar que as temáticas pesquisadas consistem em assuntos multidisciplinares. Por fim, ao analisar os dez artigos mais citados, concluiu-se que as suas contribuições s;ão de grande relevância para os estudos futuros em rela;ão ao desenvolvimento sustentável das cidades, bem como a qualidade de vida dos cidadãos.

scholarly journals Living in Fear

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
William Wee-Lim Hew ◽  
Boon-Yee Low ◽  
Gerald Guan-Gan Goh ◽  
Siok-Hwa Lau
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Income Disparity ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Neighbourhood Level

While urbanisation has always been welcomed as a driver to economic amelioration, it has also been criticised for raising expectations and complicating the lives of  urban residents. With urban development, wellbeing is often compromised as income disparity increases, quality of life decreases. Of late, crime has been a major concern. Criminal activities have eroded the sense of urban wellbeing and caused the desertion of neighbourhoods.  While the Malaysian government tries to achieve sustainable urban development by containing urban sprawl, crime is undoing these efforts. Interviews with residents in crime-prone areas show that many are increasingly threatened by criminal activities in their neighbourhoods and have shown high tendencies to move out of the neighbourhoods. Steps to contain this problem is by having neighbourhood-level security measures as well as heightened involvement in community safety initiatives

Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Angelidou ◽  
Artemis Psaltoglou ◽  
Nicos Komninos ◽  
Christina Kakderi ◽  
Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has highlighted the need to explore the relation of smart and sustainable cities more systematically, focusing on practical applications that could enable a deeper understanding of the included domains, typologies and design concepts, and this paper aims to address this research gap. At the same time, it tries to identify whether these applications could contribute to the “zero vision” strategy, an extremely ambitious challenge within the field of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach This objective is pursued through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments. A total of 32 applications were detected through the Intelligent/Smart Cities Open Source (ICOS) community, a meta-repository for smart cities solutions. The applications are analyzed comparatively regarding (i) the environmental issue addressed, (ii) the associated mitigation strategies, (iii) the included innovation mechanism, (iv) the role of information and communication technologies and (v) the overall outcome. Findings The findings suggest that the smart and sustainable city landscape is extremely fragmented both on the policy and the technical levels. There is a host of unexplored opportunities toward smart sustainable development, many of which are still unknown. Similar findings are reached for all categories of environmental challenges in cities. Research limitations pertain to the analysis of a relatively small number of applications. The results can be used to inform policy making toward becoming more proactive and impactful both locally and globally. Given that smart city application market niches are also identified, they are also of special interest to developers, user communities and digital entrepreneurs. Originality/value The value added by this paper is two-fold. At the theoretical level, it offers a neat conceptual bridge between smart and sustainable cities debate. At the practical level, it identifies under-researched and under-exploited fields of smart city applications that could be opportunities to attain the “zero vision” objective.

scholarly journals Participatory measurements of sustainable urban development and quality of life in post-socialist Zadar, Croatia

Spatium ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branko Cavric ◽  
Silvija Toplek ◽  
Ante Siljeg
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life ◽  
Planning Decision

Over the last two decades, there has been an intensive discourse and research about measuring sustainable urban development. Many cities, regions and countries have decided to introduce indicators for monitoring and measuring the progress towards sustainability. Today there is a wide spread perception that information on the environment in general, and urban environment in particular, is the determinant of effective rational decisions and allocation of resources. Such information would enable planners and decision makers to formulate redistributive policies and programmes to address some of the disparities that exist in a post-socialist city. Cities of the post-socialist world characterized by sharp disparities, socio-economic contrasts and environmental degradation provide an excellent laboratory for tracing information on the quality of urban life. The current situation in the emerging Croatian coastal city of Zadar reflects the diversity of the post-socialist urban change in a very fragile Mediterranean landscape. This paper takes a critical look at sustainable development and its measurements. It describes the participatory approach through which different local communities in Zadar were evaluating quality of life based on basic pillars of sustainable development. The identification and collection of their opinions provide valuable data base and community input into urban governance and development planning decision making.

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