Smart city projects against COVID-19: Quantitative evidence from China

Yang, Shanshan; Chong, Zhaohui

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2021.102897

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“…Besides, the impact is different in cities with different populations. Yang and Chong (2021) in their research provide quantitative proof of smart city projects' influence on COVID-19 prevention and control [59].…”

Section: Construction Investments During Covid-19mentioning

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“…Due to their role in the sustainable management of the city, travel reduction and information spread, smart city projects were considered an important means of effective pandemic prevention and control by not implementing a strict lockdown policy [56][57][58]. The use of smart city platforms for wise prevention, epidemic control, information selection, and medicine resource adjustment while implementing the epidemic prevention and control attracted policymakers and researchers' attention [59].…”

Section: Construction Investments During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Construction Investment, Real Estate Development, and COVID-19: A Review of Literature in the Field

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Aspects of sustainable construction investment and real estate development (CIRED) and their interrelations during the period pre-, intra-, and post-COVID-19, are presented in the research. Applications of the topic model, environmental psychology theory, building life cycle method, and certain elements of bibliometrics, webometrics, article level metrics, altmetrics, and scientometrics make it possible to perform a quantitative analysis on CIRED. The CIRED topic model was developed in seven steps. This paper aims to present a literature review on CIRED throughout the pandemic and to look at the responses from the real estate and construction sector. This sector is a field that appears to be rapidly expanding, judging from the volume of current research papers. This review focuses on last year’s leading peer-reviewed journals. A combination of various keywords was applied for the review and the criteria for paper selections included construction investment, real estate development, civil engineering, COVID-19, and sustainability, as well as residential, industrial, commercial, land, and special purpose real estate, along with their risks, strategies, and trends. The articles reviewed for this paper, which analyzes three hypotheses, look at pre-, intra-, and post-pandemic CIRED. The three hypotheses were validated by analyzing scientific publications from around the world. Two innovative elements make this study stand out among the most advanced research on pre-, intra-, and post-pandemic CIRED. The first of the two innovations is the integrated analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19-related national policies, and business investment strategies relevant to CIRED and the interests of investors as well as on the impact a CIRED policy and investors make on the spread of COVID-19. In addition, this research demonstrates a marked increase in the effectiveness of a CIRED analysis, when the life cycle of a CIRED, the involved stakeholders with their own individual interests, the COVID-19 situation, and the external micro-, meso-, and macro-environments are covered comprehensively as a single entity.

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Section: Construction Investments During Covid-19mentioning

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Section: Construction Investments During Covid-19mentioning

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Sustainable Construction Investment, Real Estate Development, and COVID-19: A Review of Literature in the Field

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“…While COVID-19 is an ongoing crisis and judging the effectiveness of this planning approach is problematic, some recent studies have assessed the benefits of implementing smart city projects for controlling COVID-19. Yang and Chong [108] have quantified the positive effect of smart city projects in different urban areas in China. While they did not present detailed information on the implemented smart city projects, they concluded that the positive effect is more tangible in large cities than in small and medium cities.…”

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Smart City and Crisis Management: Lessons for the COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 shocked cities around the world and revealed the vulnerability of urban lives and functions. Most cities experienced a catastrophic disturbance that has lasted for a long time. Planning plays a critical role in responding efficiently to this crisis and enabling rapid functional recovery in the post-disaster era. Cities that have implemented digitalization initiatives and programs are likely to have more capacity to react appropriately. Specifically, digitalized cities could ensure the well-being of their residents and maintain continuity of urban functions. This research aims to analyze the role of technology in crisis management in the last two decades and provide appropriate policy recommendations for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Systematic literature review and subjective content analysis are employed to investigate the effects of technology on community well-being and making cities more resilient in past crises. This study shows that different technology-driven policies and actions enable crisis management, enhance community well-being, and increase urban resilience. Technology has enhanced coping and recovery capacities by increasing participation and social connectedness, enhancing physical and mental health and maintaining the functionality of education and economic systems. These have been achieved through various solutions and technologies such as social media, telehealth, tracking and monitoring systems, sensors and locational applications, teleworking systems, etc. These solutions and technologies have also been used during the COVID-19 pandemic to enhance community well-being and sustain urban functions. However, technology deployment might have adverse effects such as social exclusion, digital divide, privacy and confidentiality violation, political bias and misinformation dissemination, and inefficient remote working and education. It is suggested that to mitigate these side effects, policymakers should liberate the process of digitalization, increase the accessibility to digital services, and enhance digital literacy.

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“…In fact, in the past two decades or so, smart city solutions, enabled by technologies such as ICTs, the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and cloud computing have been emphasized for their potential to address societal challenges, and the recent pandemic has offered an unprecedented opportunity to test their effectiveness [3][4][5][6]. Accordingly, since the early days of the pandemic many communities have relied on smart solutions to contain the spread of the virus and enhance their response capacities [3,7]. Furthermore, the role of such solutions has also been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) [2].…”

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Contributions of Smart City Solutions and Technologies to Resilience against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review

2021

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Since its emergence in late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has swept through many cities around the world, claiming millions of lives and causing major socio-economic impacts. The pandemic occurred at an important historical juncture when smart solutions and technologies have become ubiquitous in many cities. Against this background, in this review, we examine how smart city solutions and technologies have contributed to resilience by enhancing planning, absorption, recovery, and adaptation abilities. For this purpose, we reviewed 147 studies that have discussed issues related to the use of smart solutions and technologies during the pandemic. The results were synthesized under four themes, namely, planning and preparation, absorption, recovery, and adaptation. This review shows that investment in smart city initiatives can enhance the planning and preparation ability. In addition, the adoption of smart solutions and technologies can, among other things, enhance the capacity of cities to predict pandemic patterns, facilitate an integrated and timely response, minimize or postpone transmission of the virus, provide support to overstretched sectors, minimize supply chain disruption, ensure continuity of basic services, and offer solutions for optimizing city operations. These are promising results that demonstrate the utility of smart solutions for enhancing resilience. However, it should be noted that realizing this potential hinges on careful attention to important issues and challenges related to privacy and security, access to open-source data, technological affordance, legal barriers, technological feasibility, and citizen engagement. Despite this, this review shows that further development of smart city initiatives can provide unprecedented opportunities for enhancing resilience to the pandemic and similar future events.

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Smart city projects against COVID-19: Quantitative evidence from China

Cited by 71 publications

References 20 publications

Sustainable Construction Investment, Real Estate Development, and COVID-19: A Review of Literature in the Field

Sustainable Construction Investment, Real Estate Development, and COVID-19: A Review of Literature in the Field

Smart City and Crisis Management: Lessons for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Contributions of Smart City Solutions and Technologies to Resilience against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review

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