Allocation of Residential Areas in Smart Insular Communities

Abstract

Smart cities and communities constitute urban environments where cities' potential, ICTs, and human capital are intelligently interconnected under the framework of sustainability. Citizens form a city's identity while ICTs support the smart management of citizens' needs. ‘Smart people' is among the main dimensions of a smart city, something that entails the active role of citizens during the development of infrastructures and decision-making processes. This paper focuses on the smart exploration of possible residential areas in the island of Mykonos (Greece). Emphasis is placed on the effective management of land, the protection of natural resources, and the establishment of a sustainable pattern of housing development. The problem is analysed with the support of a methodological approach that incorporates crowdsourcing, living labs, and participatory evaluation as the main components of its backbone. Geographical Information Systems and multi-criteria decision analysis are also utilized as an integrated Spatial Decision Support System.

Digital sustainability: how information and communication technologies (ICTs) support sustainable development goals (SDGs) assessment in municipalities

“…These technologies provide data integration and public access supporting policy-making and shared city planning. Furthermore, social networks, GISbased crowdsourcing (Breuer and Groshek, 2017;Cinnamon and Schuurman, 2010;Papadopoulou and Hatzichristos, 2020), integrated platforms (Sivarajah et al, 2014) and monitoring systems (Repetti et al, 2006) represent technologies supporting the access to science, technology and innovation and knowledge-sharing in a local and/or global level.…”

“…This target seeks to strengthen more sustainable patterns of consumption and production mainly in developing countries. Papadopoulou and Hatzichristos (2020) present a participatory evaluation of suitable sites for the development of residential areas in Mykonos, in the context of a living lab and, with the support of crowdsourcing techniques and the exploitation of Geographical Information Systems (GIS).…”

“…Social networks, GIS-based crowdsourcing (Breuer and Groshek, 2017;Cinnamon and Schuurman, 2010;Papadopoulou and Hatzichristos, 2020), integrated platforms (Sivarajah et al, 2014) and monitoring systems (Repetti et al, 2006) represent technologies supporting access to science, technology and innovation and knowledge-sharing in a local and/or global level. The papers also presented models and simulations to predict the city dynamics (Zia et al, 2016) and frameworks of indicators and methodologies to support the multi-stakeholder planning and decision-making.…”

“…Target 11.3 aims to enhance participatory urbanisation and integrated planning. Citizen participation in urban planning may occur through crowdsourcing technologies (Papadopoulou and Hatzichristos, 2020) or an information exchange platform (Repetti, Soutter & Musy, 2005;Bouzguenda et al, 2020). These examples present alternatives systems for inputting and monitoring urban issues as a tool for the urban decision-making process.…”