From smart cities to wise cities: ecological wisdom as a basis for sustainable urban development

Young, Robert F.; Lieberknecht, Katherine

doi:10.1080/09640568.2018.1484343

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“…Our AI model reflects on 6 micro-and macro-indicators and achieves optimal sustainable policymaking, empowering regional environmental development. In addition, it allows us to inspire cross-border policymaking, which transitions toward a new European cohesion paradigm from smart cities to sustainable cities and regions (Young & Lieberknecht, 2018). Its intelligent approach could exclude subjective influencing factors, inspiring an objective view of sustainable public policies, not only in Ukraine, but also in the European Union.…”

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An intelligent environmental plan for sustainable regionalisation policies: The case of Ukraine

Papagiannis

Gazzola

Burak

et al. 2020

Environmental Science & Policy

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This paper introduces an environment-driven, artificial intelligence model for sustainable policymaking in European countries, with a focus on Ukraine. It develops regional clusters using artificial neural networking; then, it dynamically optimises budgeting allocations. It is a hybrid, environment-driven model that clusters regionalised-data using Kohonen's self-organising map and optimises budget allocations using the simplex-modified distribution method (U-V MODI). Model benefits focus on regional public policies, environmental development, and core-periphery balanced growth. Results reveal an innovative plan that activates the participation of environmental stakeholders in public policymaking, reforms regions based on set sustainability criteria, and optimises regional funding.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An intelligent environmental plan for sustainable regionalisation policies: The case of Ukraine

Papagiannis

Gazzola

Burak

et al. 2020

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…For Shelton et al (2015: 22), ‘the problem is less with data, per se, and more with the uncritical, ahistorical and aspatial understandings of data often promoted within smart city imaginaries, themselves recycled from earlier attempts to make urban studies and planning “more scientific”’. These frameworks include proposals from organisational theory (Pierce et al, 2017), ecological wisdom (Young and Lieberknecht, 2018), collaboration or urban sharing (Gil-Garcia et al, 2019; Zyoska et al, 2019), open data (Pinheiro, 2017) and living indicators (Kaika, 2017). They have in common the notion that technology should be subservient to particular places and communities (Kitchin, 2014; McFarlane and Söderström, 2017), and emphasise the need to look at both grounded experiences and the materiality of interventions (Schindler and Marvin, 2018; Shelton et al, 2015; Wiig, 2015).…”

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“…A hierarchical method ‘with multiple layers of indicators capturing characteristics of the dimensions such as social, economic, environment, culture and lifestyle’, the index is particularly useful for developing countries. Others advocate for a transition from smart cities to wise cities based on ecological wisdom (EW), arguing that ‘[w]here SC’s central focus is on deploying new digital technology networks, EW strengthens contemporary scientific inquiry by drawing upon historically demonstrated precedents and insights emphasising place-based, life-centred systems’ (Young and Lieberknecht, 2018: 10). Attention to this dimension prompts the question: do SC novelties or system disturbances enhance the established urban capacities for ecosystem management, resilience and restoration in sustainable and equitable manners?…”

Section: The 6-es Smart Cities Framework and Public–private–people Pamentioning

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Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising

Irazábal

Jirón

2020

Urban Studies

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Smart city initiatives in Latin America aim to harness information and communication technologies to make urban service provision and management more efficient, transparent and user-friendly. Latin American cities have been relatively slow to adopt such initiatives, but there is inter- and intra-urban variety in the region. We offer illustrative vignettes of Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Medellín, which have experimented with different formats for smart city programme design, implementation and management. While top-down and flashier smart city projects in these cities reflect worlding aspirations on the part of urban elites, mixed and bottom-up approaches serve to provincialise and often informalise the initiatives in manners that destabilise elitism and more equitably distribute costs and benefits. One of the biggest challenges these cities share in developing smarter initiatives is inequality, given that most interventions are located in or benefit higher-income areas and actors. As instruments to provincialise the discourses and practices of smart cityness in the region, we propose that cities adopt the ‘6-Es smart cities framework’ (efficiency, economy, ecology, equity, education and engagement) and mobilise public–private– people partnerships within city plans and implementation processes.

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“…Sustainable development considers the greatest humanitarian challenge in today's world and has become an essential concept for all people living on the planet [3,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. In this respect, sustainability includes (a) environmental sustainability that incorporates best practices in the management of the energy, transportation, waste, and pollution, (b) social sustainability related to green business and service activities and promoting the responsibilities of individuals in the community, (c) economic sustainability that includes self-reliance and equality [17,18]. According to the United Nations' forecast, by 2050, 70% of the world's population is expected to be living in the cities.…”

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Process-Based Improvement of Urban Metabolism in Optimizing the Development Cycle of the Small City Using MIA Method

Delivandani

Rajabi

Kermani

2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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In order to maintain the health and stability of the urban ecosystem, humans must undermine the negative effects of improper land use in cities by planning to reduce entropy and regulate urban metabolism, material, and energy cycles, and considering resource capacity when providing the needs of the urban ecosystem population. Subsequently, the general purpose of this study is to explain the process-based pattern of healthy urban metabolism in the development cycle of a small city. The purpose of studying the urban metabolism, which is an integral part of the government from the environment, is to prepare reports and take measures indicating city sustainability. Indeed, the urban metabolism incorporates the relevant information on energy saving, material cycle, and management of waste and infrastructure in the urban systems. The present study employs a descriptive-analytical method. Accordingly, the metabolic impact assessment (MIA) method was utilized to analyze the data and achieve the study results. According to the assessment results in the input part of the urban metabolism process, the water and energy criteria are closer to the ideal status with 64% and 40%, respectively. In total, the performance of the input process is equal to 52%, and after that, the air quality, materials, and output sectors have a performance equal to 35, 31, and 33%, respectively. Moreover, land cover and transport have a performance of 14% and 65%, respectively, revealing that they are in a desirable condition. The above results based on mathematical optimization illustrate that there is no balance between the input and output of the urban metabolism model in the study area, and the main problems are evident in the output sectors and particularly in the recycling of materials and water.

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From smart cities to wise cities: ecological wisdom as a basis for sustainable urban development

Cited by 32 publications

References 28 publications

An intelligent environmental plan for sustainable regionalisation policies: The case of Ukraine

An intelligent environmental plan for sustainable regionalisation policies: The case of Ukraine

Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising

Process-Based Improvement of Urban Metabolism in Optimizing the Development Cycle of the Small City Using MIA Method

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