A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City: Smartness as Technologies and Innovation in Urban Contexts

Gil-García, J. Ramón; Pardo, Theresa A.; Nam, Taewoo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8_1

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“…Processes that support the development, changes and everyday functioning of cities are complex and urban environments should be perceived as such as well, namely, as complex social engineering systems (Elzen et al, 2004). Many publications indicate the need to develop an integrated and holistic approach to a "smart city" (Perboli et al, 2014;Gil-Garcia et al, 2015).…”

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Smart city concept in the light of the literature review

Winkowska

Szpilko

Pejić

2019

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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A B S T R A C T Nowadays, the transformations of metropolises into smart cities is a crucial factor in improving the living conditions of the inhabitants. The goal of the smart city concept is modern urban management using technical tools that offer state-of-the-art technologies, considering the applicable ecological standards while saving resources and achieving the expected results. The purpose of this article is to identify the areas of research analysed in the international literature in the field of smart cities. The bibliometric analysis was carried out to achieve the purpose. The analysis covered publications on smart cities published in Scopus and Web of Science databases from January 2009 to May 2019. Based on the bibliometric analysis, a bibliometric map was developed using the mapping technique VOS -the visualisation of similarities. Original clusters were created using the VOSviewer software. The bibliometric map visualises the results of the analysis that targeted the word coexistence. K E Y W O R D S smart city, smart city subareas, bibliometric map

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart city concept in the light of the literature review

Winkowska

Szpilko

Pejić

2019

Engineering Management in Production and Services

132

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“…Nowadays, the urban population seems to be a focus of urban development since more than half of the population is living in the city. It is expected that by the year 2050, 70 % of the world population will live in urban areas due to the urbanization [2] . However, in Europe, things become different.…”

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“…These rapid and variable changes of urban development encourage cities all over the world to seeking new solutions to both old and new problems [2] . Sustainable development of the urban future is always a hot topic.…”

Section: The Major Theme Of Sustainable Urban Futurementioning

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“…It is clear that the solar energy system is facing challenges on both the soft side (such as economic and social challenges) and the hard side (such as technical challenges). Since the technology cannot stand long, it needs to be understood in the context of social, environmental, economic, and cultural progress in cities [2] . The implementation and management of solar power through urban planning can play a strategic role in improving the energy efficiency of the cities [5] .…”

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Innovative and smart city: A theoretical study of adaptive solutions for sustainable solar urban districts

2019

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This paper is a theoretical study of governing solar urban districts using the smart city system. It first presents the major theme of the sustainable urban future, points out the position of the solar energy in urban sustainable development. Then it presents the opportunities and challenges of the solar energy system, states that the innovation of technology from both the soft side and the hard side are the key points for governing the solar urban districts. The paper also shows the relationship between innovation, economies, and social sustainable development. Finally, the paper presents the smart city system as an innovative system. It needs to govern the solar urban district from all aspects (including but not limited to public services, city administration, and management, economy, pro-business environment, built environment and city infrastructure, natural environment and ecological sustainability). The lifecycle thinking and the GUUD model can be used to analyse and monitor the system. However, managing those fragment elements is not that simple. One of the challenges of integrating a smart city system is to build a connection between fragmental elements and make individual islands communicate with each other in order to achieve common goals.

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“…Our preferred definition for the smart city concept is, the "[S]mart city is an effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens" [9]. Being "smart" is not an end state, but rather can be an enabling condition that may lead to other desirable social, economic, or environmental outcomes [10].…”

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A Study of the Interaction of Human Smart Characteristics with Demographic Dynamics and Built Environment: The Case of Limassol, Cyprus

Alverti

Themistocleous²,

Kyriakidis

et al. 2020

Smart Cities

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The smart city notion provides an integrated and systematic answer to challenges facing cities today. Smart city policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly stating their interest in human-centered smart cities. On the other hand, in many studies smart city policies bring forward a one-size-fits-all type of recommendation for all areas in question instead of location-specific ones. Based on the above considerations, this paper illustrates that smart citizen characteristics, alongside local urban challenges, are paving the way towards more effective efforts in smart city policy decision making. Our main presumption is that the development level of human-centered indicators of smart cities varies locally. The scientific objective of this paper is to find a simple, understandable link between human smart characteristics and local determinants in Limassol city, Cyprus. The data set consists of seven indicators defined as human smart characteristics and seven which determine local urban challenges consisting of demographic dynamics and built infrastructure attributes based on housing. Correlations of the 14 above indicators are examined in entirety and separately, as the study area was divided into three spatial sub-groups (high, moderate, and low coverage areas) depending on dispersed urbanization, as the main challenge of the study area. The data were obtained mainly from the most recent population census in 2011 and categorized in sub-groups by triggering CLC 2012. Analyzing the statistics using principal component analysis (PCA), we identify significant relationships between human smart city characteristics, demographic dynamics and built infrastructure attributes which can be used in local policy decision making. Spatial variations based on the dispersed urbanization are also observed regarding the above-mentioned relationships.

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A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City: Smartness as Technologies and Innovation in Urban Contexts

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Smart city concept in the light of the literature review

Smart city concept in the light of the literature review

Innovative and smart city: A theoretical study of adaptive solutions for sustainable solar urban districts

A Study of the Interaction of Human Smart Characteristics with Demographic Dynamics and Built Environment: The Case of Limassol, Cyprus

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