Governance and quality of life in smart cities: Towards sustainable development goals

Guimarães, Júlio César Ferro de; Severo, Eliana Andréa; Júnior, Luiz Antônio Félix; Costa, Wênyka Preston Leite Batista da; Salmoria, Fernanda Tasso

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119926

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“…E-governance encompasses how to govern, serve, organize and formulate proposals related to worldwide communities that are settled on urban areas. It works in order to develop technologies to promote citizens' participation in different areas, which has been getting attention in the last decade [16] due to its impact on life quality [17]. This concept also intersects with Civic Tech [18].…”

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Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

2020

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The way citizens interact with cities affects overall life quality. Their participation in social decisions is of paramount importance for helping on public decisions that affect governance, regulation and education. This interaction has the potential of being boosted within the scope of smart and digital cities, especially by recent advances in blockchain technology. This work introduces insights about how smart cities’ concepts and innovative technologies can help society to face daily challenges for improving citizens’ awareness. Digital technologies are able to drive social and economic development by employing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to promote innovation. In this context, e-governance, in conjunction with disruptive concepts such as blockchain, is showing up as a fundamental tool for a decentralized democracy. This study reviews, discusses, raises open points and presents suggestions towards an efficient, transparent and sustainable use of technology, applied to future cities.

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Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

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“…In this sense, the efforts of local policymakers have been focused on how to improve urban mobility. Thus, the identification, collection and processing of information provided by the actors involved are crucial in the development of urban sensor projects [163][164][165]. The first challenge refers to the development of innovative urban policies in line with the needs of citizens, local authorities, companies, organizations, and so on.…”

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Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

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The data-driven approach to sustainable urban development is becoming increasingly popular among the cities across the world. This is due to cities’ attention in supporting smart and sustainable urbanism practices. In an era of digitalization of urban services and processes, which is upon us, platform urbanism is becoming a fundamental tool to support smart urban governance, and helping in the formation of a new version of cities—i.e., City 4.0. This new version utilizes urban dashboards and platforms in its operations and management tasks of its complex urban metabolism. These intelligent systems help in maintaining the robustness of our cities, integrating various sensors (e.g., internet-of-things) and big data analysis technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence) with the aim of optimizing urban infrastructures and services (e.g., water, waste, energy), and turning the urban system into a smart one. The study generates insights from the sensor city best practices by placing some of renowned projects, implemented by Huawei, Cisco, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, and Alibaba, under the microscope. The investigation findings reveal that the sensor city approach: (a) Has the potential to increase the smartness and sustainability level of cities; (b) Manages to engage citizens and companies in the process of planning, monitoring and analyzing urban processes; (c) Raises awareness on the local environmental, social and economic issues, and; (d) Provides a novel city blueprint for urban administrators, managers and planners. Nonetheless, the use of advanced technologies—e.g., real-time monitoring stations, cloud computing, surveillance cameras—poses a multitude of challenges related to: (a) Quality of the data used; (b) Level of protection of traditional and cybernetic urban security; (c) Necessary integration between the various urban infrastructure, and; (d) Ability to transform feedback from stakeholders into innovative urban policies.

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“…-there is a change of basic concepts: to replace images "the city as office", "city is a car" (linear and fragmentary thinking, rigid rationalism) come the models "the city for life","city promoting a healthy lifestyle" (the cross-disciplinary, innovative thinking, first of all, population psychology, etc.) [12]; -the combination of approaches "the city as the project" and "the city as a mosaic of projects" acquires relevance. From town-planners don't ask any more to create "new places".…”

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Formation and implementation of urban policy using the example of Saransk, Russia

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In the process of research the essence of urban policy was disclosed, the basic concept of urban space development were considered, historical prerequisites for the formation of public spaces and modern world trends were identified, a review of the regulatory framework for the formation and implementation of urban planning policies was carried out, priority directions for improving the efficiency of the mechanisms for implementing the urban development policy of the district of Saransk in conditions of the transformation of public spaces were developed.

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Governance and quality of life in smart cities: Towards sustainable development goals

Cited by 255 publications

References 60 publications

Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain

Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

Formation and implementation of urban policy using the example of Saransk, Russia

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