Soft Assets Consideration in Smart and Resilient City Development

Wataya, Eiko; Shaw, Rajib

doi:10.3390/smartcities5010007

Cited by 5 publications

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“…As a result, soft or non-physical assets share a significant capital component with multiple effects in many situations for a smart city. In addition to the advantages offered by the conventional physical infrastructure, they allow a city to implement and mainstream a people-centered strategy [115]. The combination of typical indicators and opportunities adequate to the spatial resources of the city development provides the basis for identifying the development vectors of the system, and the thresholds for their actual implementation-the so-called certainty thresholds.…”

Section: Smart City Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blending Human Ware with Software and Hardware in the Design of Smart Cities

Almusaed¹,

Almssad²

2023

Sustainable Smart Cities - A Vision for Tomorrow

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Sustainable innovation entails realizing society-oriented value creation in an environment-friendly manner. A smart city can be viewed as a holistic paradigm that avails of state-of-the-art information and communication technologies (ICTs, in other words) to advance the so-called “Internet of Things.” This aids the management of urban processes and improves the quality of life for the citizens. Smart cities are bound to keep getting “smarter” as the ICTs keep developing. While the technological factor represented by the IoT, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, urban digital twinning, cloud computing, and mobile Internet is a driving factor unarguably, innovation in urban ecology is a vital socio-economic factor that will spur the transformation of urban areas in the world to smart cities. In this chapter, the authors answer the “what,” how, and “who,” so to say, of the paradigm—smart cities—with real-life examples and a case study. They emphasize the importance of human ware and remind readers that technology—the all-encompassing Internet of Things with its infantry of cameras, sensors, and electronic devices—though powerful, is a humble servant in the service of the inhabitants of a smart city.

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Section: Smart City Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blending Human Ware with Software and Hardware in the Design of Smart Cities

Almusaed¹,

Almssad²

2023

Sustainable Smart Cities - A Vision for Tomorrow

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“…In the case of achieving resilience, the traditional paradigm of engineering-based policy planning has been shifted to new approaches that consider reinventing nature as an essential component of the 'urban ecosystem' [9,10] by allowing nature-based solutions (NbS) [11][12][13].…”

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Nature-Based Resilience: Experiences of Five Cities from South Asia

Mukherjee

Wickramasinghe

Chowdhooree

et al. 2022

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As in many other parts of the world, the urban areas of the South Asian region are increasingly expanding. While cities today are the heart of commercial, technological and social development, they are also vulnerable to a variety of natural and anthropogenic threats. The complex urban infrastructure, and the ever-expanding population in cities, exacerbate the impacts of climate change and increase the risk of natural hazards. Throughout history, various hydrological disasters including floods, tidal surges, and droughts, and non-hydrological disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, and storms have led to catastrophic social, economic and environmental impacts in numerous South Asian cities. Disaster risk reduction is therefore central to ensure sustainability in urban areas. Although Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are identified as a promising strategy to reduce risk and increase resilience, there appears to be a lack of evidence-based approaches. NbS are measures that can be practiced to obtain benefits of nature for the environmental and community development through conserving, managing, and restoring ecosystems. Against this backdrop, the South Asian cities provide opportunities to evaluate capacities for achieving Nature-based Resilience (NbR) through NbS. This study documents insights from five cities of five different countries of the South Asian region which are subjected to a wide array of disasters: Barishal (Bangladesh), Phuentsholing (Bhutan), Gurugram (India), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Colombo (Sri Lanka). The primary objective of this study is to provide evidence on how NbS are being practiced. Thus, some success stories in cities under consideration are highlighted: restoration of natural canals through integrated development plans and community participation (Barishal), concepts of Gross National Happiness (GNH) and minimal nature interventions (Phuentsholing), “Greening cities’’ including eco-corridors, vegetation belts, biodiversity parks (Gurugram), proper land use planning aims at different disasters (Kathmandu), and wetland restoration and management with multiple benefits (Colombo). These cases could therefore, act as a “proxy” for learning from each other to prepare for and recover from future disasters while building NbR.

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