Smart cities: A challenge to research and policy analysis

Borseková, Kamila; Nijkamp, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.03.015

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“…European countries, there is a lack of integrated and coordinated smart initiatives, as they mostly represent immediate solutions to urban issues and not a long-term development strategy (Borsekova, Nijkamp 2018). Romania still finds itself at the beginning of a long process, with a shy start and a relatively underdeveloped smart city sector (VEGACOMP 2018).…”

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Towards smart(er) resilient cities. Evidences from Romanian urban areas

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The investment in communication technologies has become increasingly prominent in cities, as they face a considerable pressure to become “smarter”. Connected technologies are able to collect and analyze data in real time, leading to predictive and adaptive decisions. However, being smart(er) does not necessary mean being more resilient; in fact, using sophisticated technologies may have some drawbacks that diminish the general resilience capacity of cities. The present paper aims to explore the relationship between resilience and smart city initiatives. The number of smart city projects is therefore firstly correlated with the resilience capacity (built on three dimensions: economic, socio-demographic, and environmental), then to the outcome resilience (calculated as the recovery following the recent economic crisis). The results show a clear connection between the most socially resilient cities, the share of employment in tertiary activities, and the implementation of smart city projects.

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“…Therefore, the cultural and historical urban fabrics are respectful of urban culture. Cultural policy is also an important factor to keep urban culture [57][58][59], even the illness culture prevention [60].…”

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“…The key technologies of the digital city include soft infrastructure and hard infrastructure. (1) Soft infrastructure consists of people observation systems (POS), ICT and cloud infrastructure [74][75][76], professional processing systems [54,57,58,77,78], and others. People observation systems (i.e., closed circuit television; mobile phones; wearable devices like wristbands, glasses, helmets; eye-catching, ubiquitous approaches; etc.)…”

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People-Centric Service Intelligence for Smart Cities

Hong

Geng

2019

Smart Cities

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In the era of big data, smart cities have become a promising prospect for governments, citizens, and industrials. Many ideas and their derived systems for smart cities depend on big data for achieving a goal of data intelligence. However, there is an urgent transformation trend from data intelligence to service intelligence in the vision of smart cities due to the living requirements of citizens. People-centric service intelligence in smart cities has to support the realization of people’s needs within urban and social domains. This paper introduces a concept of people-centric service intelligence, defines the level of it and its challenges in the aspect of infrastructure, human dynamics, human understanding and prediction, and the human–machine interface. Then, this paper proposes the theoretical framework and technical frameworks of people-centric service intelligence, and the service intelligence schemas for future construction of smart cities. It will be helpful for governments and industries to design people-centric service intelligence for improving the quality of life, the capabilities of good sustainability, and better development.

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“…The concept of smart city has emerged in scientific discussions and has increasingly been applied in practice by urban planners and public authorities, as an approach for rapidly scaling up solutions to achieve the envisioned urban sustainable development goals, and ultimately improve citizen's quality of life (Anthopoulos, 2017;Mora et al, 2018). Initially focused on the provision of solutions based on Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) (technological innovation), smart city approaches have gradually started to call on citizens for the co-design of such solutions (social innovation) (Albino, 2015;Borsekova and Nijkamp, 2018). This is also supported by findings on how energy transitions have been historically framed, indicating that changes of energy service demand, linked to societal and environmental transformations, likely play a bigger role than technological innovations in driving transitions (Grubler, 2012).…”

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Can Behaviorally Informed Urban Living Labs Foster the Energy Transition in Cities?

Valle

Gantioler

Tomasi

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Identifying governance schemes that promote cooperation among urban stakeholders is a priority in a context where rapid urbanization poses multiple and complex challenges for ensuring the sustainability of cities. Smart cities offer promising governance approaches, especially in the framework of the concept of Urban Living Labs (ULLs), as an enabling environment for so-called user-centric co-creation processes. While embedding a potential to promote solutions that tackle the challenges of urbanization, especially in relation to the energy transition, it is not yet clear how ULLs can effectively involve all relevant actors nor the extent of their impact, especially regarding behaviors. The study first analyzes the interplay between the challenge of urban energy transition and local governance schemes. Then, it explores how findings from behavioral sciences can inform the design of ULLs to effectively promote active engagement in the urban energy transition. Finally, it reviews the theoretical findings in relation to the ULL that has been taking shape in the city of Trento, Italy.

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Smart cities: A challenge to research and policy analysis

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Towards smart(er) resilient cities. Evidences from Romanian urban areas

Towards smart(er) resilient cities. Evidences from Romanian urban areas

People-Centric Service Intelligence for Smart Cities

Can Behaviorally Informed Urban Living Labs Foster the Energy Transition in Cities?

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