Smart Growth: A New American Approach to Regional Planning

Daniels, Tom

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“…Smart growth is an urban planning theory originated in 1990's that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl [1][2][3][4]. Many communities are implementing smart growth initiatives in an effort to consider long range, sustainable planning goals [5][6][7].…”

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Comprehensive Modelling and Planning of Urban Smart Growth

Chen¹,

Wu²,

Xu³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Statistics Application (AMMSA 2017)

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Abstract-Implementation of smart growth theories into city planning has become increasingly important and necessary. In this paper, a metric to measure the success of urban smart growth was defined as Success Index and the relationship between Success Index and the three E's components was established based on principal component analysis (PCA). Cellular automata (CA) method was applied to simulate the dynamic growth processes of Pittsburgh and Zurich. Some planning regulations were made based on economic, environment and geography. The developed model can be used to evaluate the success of smart growth and to make smart urban planning with high degree of adaptability and predictability.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comprehensive Modelling and Planning of Urban Smart Growth

Chen¹,

Wu²,

Xu³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Statistics Application (AMMSA 2017)

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“…Other groups of authors have stressed the sustainability component of the smart city concept, particularly its origins in the "smart growth" planning concept (Burchell, Listokin, and Galley 2000;Daniels 2001;Harrison and Donnelly 2011). This sustainabilityrelated concept, which arose as a reaction to the excessively automobile-oriented urban sprawl around many US cities, promotes the adoption of a diversity of urban growth management policies.…”

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How smart is smart? Theoretical and empirical considerations on implementing smart city objectives – a case study of Dutch railway station areas

Wijs

Witte

Geertman

2016

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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The current widespread attention on the concept of smart city in both policy and practice has stimulated academic discussion regarding the scope and applicability of this concept. An important question is whether cities and regions are truly advanced in implementing the concept in their policies and practices relative to its conceptual elaborations in academia. The aim of this paper is to analyse this congruence between theory and practice in the context of the ongoing transformations of railway station areas in European urban regions. Based on in-depth interviewing using aspects of Q-methodology, this paper investigates whether and how smart city concepts are implemented by stakeholders in three station redevelopment projects in the Netherlands. The results show that the current implementation of smart city concepts in practice is varied but modest and not (yet) very advanced. Knowledge exchange and innovations are currently hampered by a lack of acceptance and knowhow among stakeholders, as well as by institutional and competitive constraints. For instance, stakeholders stress that data privacy regulations should be well organized before further implementation can occur. Transparency about how and what data are used may create more willingness among users to assist in developing and accepting new data technologies. However, the technologies are not yet completely developed, and concerns about the "loss" of personal privacy are holding back the widespread and advanced use of data supplied technologies. Although stakeholders seem to be aware of the opportunities the smart city concept offers, for now, the widespread implementation of innovative and advanced smart city concepts remains in the future.Keywords: smart city; smart governance; railway station areas; Q-methodology; stakeholders IntroductionIn recent years, the concept of the "smart city" has been taken up by many city leaders, IT companies and scholars worldwide, resulting in a flurry of professional (e.g., ARUP 2010; Washburn and Sindhu 2010), popular (Greenfield 2013;Townsend 2013) and scholarly (Deakin 2011; Glasmeier and Christopherson 2015) publications on the topic. To an increasing extent, both practitioners and policy-makers proclaim that their cities and regions are "smart", a designation exemplified by, for example, smart city events and Research, 2016 Vol. 29, No. 4, 424-441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2016 rankings of smart cities. For example, Utrecht is one of the most competitive European regions and develops many smart projects related to climate policy, traffic, services, life sciences and gaming (The New Economy 2014). Amsterdam has its own smart city portal on which it promotes initiatives such as a 3D-printed canal house and a selfreliant sustainable energy network for the entire city. Such examples raise the expectation that these cities and regions are rather advanced in implementing the smart city concept in their policies and practices. The question remains, however, as to whether this is truly the case and whether co...

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“…(2) Low Intensity Development as of 2001: Low-intensity development is considered one of the major components of sprawl due to its footprint on the landscape [29,63,64] and this is why it is used here as an indicator. According to the 2001 NLCD metadata, low intensity development is a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation.…”

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Measuring Sprawl across the Urban Rural Continuum Using an Amalgamated Sprawl Index

Kew

Lee

2013

Sustainability

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Urban sprawl is rapidly transforming the landscape of Kentucky"s prime farmland from a dominant agricultural land use pattern to a patchwork of dispersed and loosely defined parcels. This state, located in the east central portion of the U.S., is not unlike many states considered rural, nor is it unlike many rural regions found throughout the world where urban sprawl is concentrated in metropolitan areas that are often encroaching into these rural areas. Authors have argued for and against urbanization patterns generally understood to be sprawl on the basis of social, economic, and biophysical opportunities and constraints. Finding consensus in the literature about defining and measuring urban sprawl is difficult. This paper demonstrates a method for cost effectively measuring urban development using National Land Cover Data, Census data, and ancillary data across 34 counties. Based on seven indicators framed around the amount, configuration, and per capita land usage, an amalgamated sprawl index (ASI) is demonstrated through an example in north central Kentucky, USA. While the public believes this growth area of Kentucky is rapidly sprawling, this study indicates the pattern of sprawl is spreading faster in areas not obvious to this same public.

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Smart Growth: A New American Approach to Regional Planning

Cited by 142 publications

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Comprehensive Modelling and Planning of Urban Smart Growth

Comprehensive Modelling and Planning of Urban Smart Growth

How smart is smart? Theoretical and empirical considerations on implementing smart city objectives – a case study of Dutch railway station areas

Measuring Sprawl across the Urban Rural Continuum Using an Amalgamated Sprawl Index

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