Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review

Bibri, Simon Elias; Krogstie, John

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2017.02.016

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“…The research and social practice within the area of new ICT for sustainability has a key task to fill as to urban planning and development (Rivera, Eriksson and Wangel 2015). In other words, cities entail human environments where smart solutions in line with the goals of sustainable development can be discovered, created, employed, evaluated, and improved (Höjer and Wangel 2015;Bibri and Krogstie 2016a). In a nutshell, ICT can be leveraged in the needed advancement of sustainable urban development (Shahrokni et al 2015;Neirotti et al 2014) and hence in addressing the challenge of urban sustainability.…”

Section: Discursive Constructions Of Ict Of the New Wave Of Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In relation to sustainable urban transformation, the existing evidence (e.g. Bibri and Krogstie 2016a;Batty et al 2012;Al Nuaimi et al 2015;Neirotti et al 2014;Kramers et al 2014) lends itself to the argument that the ubiquity presence and massive use of ICT, in relation to every urban domain, makes it a salient factor for advancing urban sustainability. It follows that for the contemporary city to improve sustainability, ICT of the new wave of computing is seen as the way forward to achieve this goal.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(Bibri 2015b, p. 3) This is of relevance as to the innovative ways that are mostly needed to address the challenge of urban sustainability and rapid urbanization (e.g. Batty et al 2012;Bibri and Krogstie 2016a;Bifulco et al 2016;Townsend 2013;Nam and Pardo 2011). In relation to this, like other (academic) urban discourses, the discourse of smart sustainable cities, which is constructed in the light of new conceptions about the scientific, technological, environmental, economic, institutional, social, and cultural changes over the past decade-'contains an all-embracing understanding of the problems cities are facing and is also the defining context for suggested [ICT] solutions' (Jessop 1998, p. 78) as future possibilities for the challenges and problems of urban sustainability and rapid urbanization.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…ITU 2014; Kramers et al 2014;Adams and ElZaart 2015;Rivera, Eriksson and Wangel 2015;Höjer and Wangel 2015;Bibri and Krogstie 2016a). The use of this concept serves to substantiate the growing significance of ICT in enabling smart and sustainable cities to realize their potential by getting smarter as to improving their contribution to sustainability and rising to the pressures of urbanization.…”

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On the social shaping dimensions of smart sustainable cities: A study in science, technology, and society

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Krogstie

2017

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Visions of future advances in science and and technology (S&T) inevitably bring with them wideranging common visions on how cities as social fabrics will evolve in the future as well as on the immense opportunities and potential risks this future will bring. Situated within what is described as science of science, this study analyzes the nature, practice, and impact of ICT of the new wave of computing for urban sustainability as a form of S&T. Specifically, it probes the ways in which this form has emerged from a variety of perspectives, and why it has become institutionalized and interwoven with politics and policy-urban dissemination-within the defining context of smart sustainable cities. Also, it addresses the risks this form poses to environmental sustainability in the context thereof. To achieve these aims, an analytical and philosophical framework of Science and Technology Studies (STS) is adopted, which supports analyses and evaluations whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. The study shows that smart sustainable cities are produced by the socially constructed understandings and socially anchored and institutionalized practices pertaining to ICT of the new wave of computing for urban sustainability and thus medicated by ecologically and technologically advanced societies. Accordingly, these cities as a manifestation of scientific knowledge and technological innovation are shaped by and also shape techno-scientific, socio-cultural, and politico-institutional structures. Moreover, the study demonstrates that the success and expansion of ICT of the new wave of computing for urban sustainability and thus smart sustainable cities stem from the morphing power, knowledge/power relation, productive and constitutive force, and legitimation capacity underlying computing and ICT as science and science-based technology. These are, however, shown to pose risks to environmental sustainability. Hence, they need to be reoriented in a more environmentally sustainable direction, as they can not, as currently practiced, solve the environmental problems placed in the agenda of smart and sustainable cities as a holistic approach to sustainable urban development.

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Section: Discursive Constructions Of Ict Of the New Wave Of Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discursive Constructions Of Ict Of the New Wave Of Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discursive Hegemony Of Smart Sustainable Citiesmentioning

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“…A smart city is defined according to a model which was initially employed as a classification system-and established on six main pillars; intelligent mobility system, smart environment, smart lifestyle, smart urban citizens, smart economy, and smart governance-against which smart cities can be assessed [4]. The concept of smart city can be also defined as an urban development technique to highlight the growing role of ICT infrastructure in improving the triple bottom lines in urban sustainability.…”

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Investigating the Role of Virtual Reality in Planning for Sustainable Smart Cities

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Abstract:With rapid population growth, urban designers face tremendous challenges to accommodate the increasing size of the population in urban areas while simultaneously considering future environmental, social, and economic impacts. A "smart city" is an urban development vision that integrates multiple information and communication technologies to manage the assets of a city, including its information systems, transportation systems, power plants, water supply networks, waste management systems, and other community services provided by a local department. The goal of creating a smart city is to improve the quality of life of citizens by using technology and by addressing the environmental, social, cultural, and physical needs of a society. Data modeling and data visualization are integral parts of planning a smart city, and planning professionals currently seek new methods for real-time simulations. The impact analysis of "what-if scenarios" frequently takes a significant amount of time and resources, and virtual reality (VR) is a potential tool for addressing these challenges. VR is a computer technology that replicates an environment, whether real or imagined, and simulates the physical presence and environment of a user to allow for user interaction. This paper presents a review of the capacity of VR to address current challenges in creating, modeling, and visualizing smart cities through material modeling and light simulation in a VR environment. This study can assist urban planners, stakeholders, and communities to further understand the roles of planning policies in creating a smart city, particularly in the early design stages. The significant roles of technologies, such as VR, in targeting real-time simulations and visualization requirements for smart cities are emphasized.

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Resilient cyber physical infrastructure for single‐phase dual inverter with sliding mode control

Senthilnathan

Annapoorani

2019

Int Trans Electr Energ Syst

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Summary As the need in cyber infrastructure for electrical systems to realize the industry 4.0 revolution, this paper presents a configuration of two‐switch dual‐output voltage source inverter with integral sliding mode control (ISMC) and cyber twin approach to realize the performance of the system. The inverter has the capability of supplying two independent loads of equal voltage at the load end. The virtual model (cyber twin) is developed to realize the operation of the inverter (physical device) with a host system. The cyber‐physical test bench is developed to evaluate the performance of the physical model (inverter prototype) with cyber‐physical capabilities. The coupled computation of the virtual model and prototype model is executed to analyze the performance of the inverter.

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Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review

Cited by 1,039 publications

References 109 publications

On the social shaping dimensions of smart sustainable cities: A study in science, technology, and society

On the social shaping dimensions of smart sustainable cities: A study in science, technology, and society

Investigating the Role of Virtual Reality in Planning for Sustainable Smart Cities

Resilient cyber physical infrastructure for single‐phase dual inverter with sliding mode control

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