Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective

Komninos, Nicos; Kakderi, Christina; Panori, Anastasia; Tsarchopoulos, Panagiotis

doi:10.1080/10630732.2018.1485368

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“…Moreover, some of the most used examples in literature as smart city performers come from Western countries, e.g. Amsterdam, seen as the first digital city and taken usually as a case study for a successful smart city (Dameri and Cocchia, 2013; Capra, 2016), Genoa, which emerged as a leader in winning EU funding for smart initiatives proposals (Dameri, 2017), Barcelona (Bakıcı, Almirall and Wareham, 2013), Helsinki (Hämäläinen, 2020), Manchester (Antrobus, 2011), Vienna (Fernandez-Anez, Fernández-Güell and Giffinger, 2018) or Thessaloniki (Komninos et al, 2019). All these urban areas have smart city initiatives that are included in an overall strategic framework of urban development and none of these cases comes from the Eastern countries with former communist heritage.…”

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The Puzzling Concept of Smart City in Central and Eastern Europe: A Literature Review Designed for Policy Development

Ibănescu

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Eva

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The modern concept of smart city rose from a relatively ambiguous term dealing with the future of urban areas to one of the most popular contemporary fields of research. Tackling a considerable range of topics from digitalization, citizen involvement, sustainability or governance, it managed to rapidly attract both academics and policy-makers. This study reviews the research papers published on smart city concept with application to European Union, and especially to the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe. The results indicate many common features of smart cities in EU, but also some peculiarities of CEE in this regard, many deriving from their socialist inheritance. Meanwhile, it can be noticed the rather incipient status of smart cities approaches, the insufficient resources allocated by local authorities, which rely extensively on EU funding, the lack of awareness from citizens and the lack of a comprehensive and structured strategic approach. In order to tackle the abovementioned issues, our paper suggests a series of measures and directions for policy-makers, local administrations and business environment.

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Section: The Smart City Concept In the European Union A Questionablementioning

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The Puzzling Concept of Smart City in Central and Eastern Europe: A Literature Review Designed for Policy Development

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Eva

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“…Master plans, the dominant city planning method for more than a century, are quite inadequate to capture the rhythm and volatile nature of smart city solutions. The concept of 'planning without plans' refers to a smart city that is gradually shaped by evolving technologies and windows of opportunities that are opened by city stakeholders (Komninos et al, 2019).…”

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Smart cities beyond algorithmic logic: digital platforms, user engagement and data science

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Panori²,

Kakderi³

2019

Smart Cities in the Post-Algorithmic Era

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The twenty-first century is marked by new challenges and capabilities, both defined by the progress in Internet technologies, data science, and artificial intelligence (AI). Growth patterns are changing under the influence of digitalisation, the expansion of the Service Dominant Logic (Anttiroiko and Komninos, 2019), and the rise of 'prosumer' and sharing economies (Oskam and Boswijk, 2016; Ritzer and Jurgenson, 2010). Full and stable employment probably is no longer feasible due to automation expanding by rapid advances in AI and machine learning (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2011). Environmental sustainability and climate change are emerging as major threats to all cities, especially those closely located to sea level (UN-DESA, 2013), while a new science of data applications provides means for better forecasting and risk management (DeLyser and Sui, 2014; Hey et al., 2009). Cities are strongly affected by these changes. The character of urban development and planning are radically changing with the use of smart technologies and user engagement (Komninos et al., 2019). Cities are highly routinised places and many daily actions and decisions are based on standard operations in transportation, energy usage, utility networks, and location-based services. Consequently, cities offer multiple domains for pervasive application of AI, algorithms, and automation. The concept of the smart city envisages an automated future and the efficiency gains made possible by the automation of services and utilities (Batty, 2018). The promise of smart cities is that they can address more effectively complex contemporary problems of growth and sustainability and provide more intelligent systems of decision-making and innovation. Smart cities are introducing a new paradigm of urban planning and development that combines utopian visions and practical solutions for a more sustainable,

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“…Rampant urbanization coupled with rapid population growth have become major challenges for sustainable development in urban centers. Actually, this complex scenario has fostered research and highlighted the theme of the smart city [1][2][3], reinforced by governmental initiatives and the opening of new commercial opportunities. It is therefore necessary to implement intelligent solutions that facilitate planning and decision-making based on strategic information, so as to provide a more effective response to the dynamics of cities [4].…”

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“…In more severe cases, it can even trigger lung cancer [34]. In this context, the need to adopt solutions in urban centers that make cities truly "smart", as well as helping to combat problems caused by air pollution is clear and urgent [3].…”

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A Crowdsensing Platform for Monitoring of Vehicular Emissions: A Smart City Perspective

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Historically, cities follow reactive planning models where managers make decisions as problems occur. On the other hand, the exponential growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has allowed the connection of a diverse array of sensors, devices, systems, and objects. These objects can then generate data that can be transformed into information and used in a more efficient urban planning paradigm, one that allows decisions to be made before the occurrence of problems and emergencies. Therefore, this article aims to propose a platform capable of estimating the amount of carbon dioxide based on sensor readings in vehicles, indirectly contributing to a more proactive city planning based on the monitoring of vehicular pollution. Crowdsensing techniques and an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD-II) reader are used to extract data from vehicles in real time, which are then stored locally on the devices used to perform data collection. With the performed experiments, it was possible to extract information about the operation of the vehicles and their dynamics when moving in a city, providing valuable information that can support auxiliary tools for the management of urban centers.

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Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective

Cited by 136 publications

References 29 publications

The Puzzling Concept of Smart City in Central and Eastern Europe: A Literature Review Designed for Policy Development

The Puzzling Concept of Smart City in Central and Eastern Europe: A Literature Review Designed for Policy Development

Smart cities beyond algorithmic logic: digital platforms, user engagement and data science

A Crowdsensing Platform for Monitoring of Vehicular Emissions: A Smart City Perspective

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