Four European Smart City Strategies

European Urban and Regional Studies

Addie

2018

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The 'smart city' has risen to global prominence as an urban planning and development strategy over the past two decades. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the 'smart city' is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of 'urban intelligence' to enhance the resiliency of metropolitan areas. As such, we focus on an under-researched dimension of smart city urbanism; its application in peripheral urban areas. The paper, first, introduces a threefold typology of: (1) geographic; (2) hard (material); and (3) soft (social) urban peripherality. Second, it reviews the concept of urban resilience and considers how its central characteristics can inform the objectives and implementation of the hard and soft infrastructures of 'smart city' planning. Six European smart city plans are assessed via a qualitative content analysis, to identify the target of smart city actions; the characteristics of urban resilience mobilized; and the spatial focus of planned interventions. The comparative analysis reveals a variegated set of smart city approaches. Notably, 'smart' actions aimed at enhancing social innovation are the most common type of intervention, while overall there remains a strong tendency for smart urbanism to focus on the urban core. We conclude by calling for a research agenda addressing smartness in, of, and for, peripheral urban spaces and communities.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tables and Figuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

From the “smart city” to the “smart metropolis”? Building resilience in the urban periphery

Falco

European Urban and Regional Studies

Addie

2018

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Proceedings of the International Conferences ICT, Society, and Human Beings 2019; Connected Smart Cities 2019; And Web Based Co

“…London, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Amsterdam are four major European cities in the process of developing or implementing a smart city strategy (Angelidou, 2016). These smart initiatives are organized around different key themes: innovation, open data, leveraging research technology and creative talent, enabling smarter infrastructure development, and seeking to forge an open environment for collaboration among government, industry, academia, and citizens.…”

Section: Smart City Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Methodological Framework for Smart City Development

Korachi

Bounabat

2019

Making a city smart requires a strategy to meet the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Many cities are treating projects of city transformation into a smart city as typical IT projects. In fact, there is a basic challenge of understanding the drivers behind city transformation and building a solid strategy planning to support and guide this transformation. To meet these challenges, this work proposes a methodology for defining and evaluating digital strategies for building smart cities. It presents how to develop and implement strategies for smart city development. Despite extensive and deep research on cities' successful transformation into smart cities, a gap exists on the methodology that the cities follow in transforming their services into digital services and making them smarter. This work builds on an integrative literature review of smart cities and digital strategies to propose an integrated methodology for smart cities development.

“…The concept of the smart city emerged recently and is constantly being transformed by contemporary technological and economic trends and ongoing discussions. One of the distinctive characteristics of smart cities is the central role of technology as a means for accumulating, organising and making vast amounts of information accessible to an increasing number of people (Angelidou, 2016). This results to a technologically-enabled ecosystem which yields improvements on the city's functions, enhancing environmental sustainability and rendering the city 'smart' (Allwinkle and Cruickshank, 2011;Angelidou, 2015;Caragliu et al, 2009;Tranos and Gertner, 2012).…”

Section: Literature Review and State Of Playmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The strategy has a global outlook, seeking to forge an open environment for the collaboration among government, industry, academia and citizens (Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2013;Angelidou, 2016;Bakici et al, 2012;Barcelona Smart City official website, 2017;Mora and Bolici, 2015). Smart city applications can be found in the areas of (i) smart mobility, (ii) public and social services, (iii) environment, (iv) companies and business, (v) research and innovation, (vi) communications, (vii) infrastructures, (viii) tourism, (ix) citizen cooperation and (x) international projects.…”

Section: Field Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Heritage in Smart City Environments

Karachaliou

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

et al. 2017

ABSTRACT:This paper investigates how the historical and cultural heritage of cities is and can be underpinned by means of smart city tools, solutions and applications. Smart cities stand for a conceptual technology-and-innovation driven urban development model. By becoming 'smart', cities seek to achieve prosperity, effectiveness and competitiveness on multiple socio-economic levels. Although cultural heritage is one of the many issues addressed by existing smart city strategies, and despite the documented bilateral benefits, our research about the positioning of urban cultural heritage within three smart city strategies (Barcelona, Amsterdam, and London) reveals fragmented approaches. Our findings suggest that the objective of cultural heritage promotion is not substantially addressed in the investigated smart city strategies. Nevertheless, we observe that cultural heritage management can be incorporated in several different strategic areas of the smart city, reflecting different lines of thinking and serving an array of goals, depending on the case. We conclude that although potential applications and approaches abound, cultural heritage currently stands for a mostly unexploited asset, presenting multiple integration opportunities within smart city contexts. We prompt for further research into bridging the two disciplines and exploiting a variety of use cases with the purpose of enriching the current knowledge base at the intersection of cultural heritage and smart cities.