How to Incorporate Urban Complexity, Diversity and Intelligence into Smart Cities Initiatives

Fernández-Güell, José-Miguel; Guzmán-Araña, Silvia; Collado-Lara, Marta; Fernández-Añez, Victoria

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“…Together with a growing popularity of the smart city concept, there appear numerous new projects based on innovative technologies helping cities to solve the emerging problems of technical infrastructure [1,2], pollution and environmental protection [3,4], waste management [5,6], spatial development [7,8], logistics and urban transport [9,10], ageing society [11,12], poverty [13,14] and low levels of involvement of residents in public affairs [15,16]. After all, many of them fail to satisfy their initial objectives due to the fact that they are not adapted to the complexity, diversity and uncertainty characterising contemporary cities [17]. They are excessively focused on investing in advanced technologies, often without real recognition of the problems in cities and without the involvement of the local community in city co-management [18][19][20][21].…”

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Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Szpilko

2020

Energies

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Global change, including population growth, economic development and climate change constitute urgent challenges for the smart cities of the 21st century. Cities need to effectively manage their development and meet challenges that have a significant impact on their economic activity, as well as health and quality of life for their citizens. In the context of continuous change, city decision-makers are constantly looking for new smart tools to tackle it. This article addresses this gap, indicating foresight as an effective tool that anticipates the future of a smart city. Its aim is to develop a methodology for planning and implementing a vision of smart city development based on foresight research. The proposed methodology consists of five stages and was developed with the use of methodology for designing hybrid systems. It is an organised, transparent and flexible process which can facilitate the development of sustainable and smart future visions of smart city development by virtue of the involvement, knowledge and experience of a large number of urban stakeholders at all stages of its creation. The article discusses in detail the operationalisation of each stage of the methodology in which the following main methods were used: megatrend analysis, factors analysis: social (S), technological (T), economic (E), ecological (E), political (P), relating to values (V) and legal (L) (STEEPVL), structural analysis, Delphi, creative visioning, scenarios and identifying actions related to the development of a smart city, divided into four categories: new, so far not undertaken (N); implemented so far, to be continued (C); redundant, to be discontinued (R); actions that have been implemented in the past and to be restored (R) (NCRR). The summary enumerates the benefits that foresight implementation can bring to the smart city.

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Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Szpilko

2020

Energies

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“…On the other hand, one or more objects connected to the IoT are connected to the Internet infrastructure. Although these two terms can be used interchangeably [120], they are distinguished because the platform goals and platform requirements associated with these two platforms are very different.…”

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“…After presenting the principles and strategies, the author proposes contextual investigations of two late exploration tasks to approve the proposed strategy. Fernández-Güell et al [120] published an article that describes cities more comprehensively and introduces urban functional systems that can promote the effective participation of local stakeholders in the planning process of sustainable development planning. Akande et al [123] Classified 28 European capitals according to intelligence and endurance.…”

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A Decade Review on Smart Cities: Paradigms, Challenges and Opportunities

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Smart City has been an emerging research domain for Government, Businesses, and researchers in the last few years. The Indian government is also interested and investing lots of funds to develop smart cities. These cities are technology-based and require interdisciplinary research and development for successful implementation. Over the last few decades, various technological interventions have created a tendency to provide smart everyday objects to make human life more comfortable. The emergence of the smart city paradigm is a response to creating a future city that guarantees the well-being and rights of its citizens from the perspective of industrial development: industry, urban planning, environment, and sustainable development. There are several subdomains in the smart city for the research. To work with the different subdomains in a smart city, proper guidance about the background of the smart city is required. This research paper is a guide for the same. This research paper represents a systematic literature review of the smart city domain. This paper carries out a systematic review of research papers published in various well-reputed journals like IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, etc., between 2011 and. This paper will help the government, businesses, and researchers aiming to enhance the smart city concept. Initially, this paper discusses the origin and emergence of this concept, followed by a few definitions and characteristics with the real roadmap and primary supporting pillars of the smart city. This paper discusses a typical architecture having different layers like Sensing, Transportation, Data Management, and Application Layers. There are various supporting technologies and platforms for the smart city; hence implementations are impossible without these technologies and media. This research paper discusses different components of the smart city. A broad literature survey is being done to observe various challenges, opportunities, and future trends in the smart city. This research paper can guide the researchers and provide the research direction in the smart city domain.

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“…However, complexity does not encompass units and interactions only, it also includes uncertainties, indeterminacies, and random phenomena [46][47][48]. The complexity of urban systems is linked to a certain mixture of order and disorder, and can be analysed, in part, by making use of the concept of 'diversity' [49][50][51]. Living organisms and, above all, the human species and its organizations, are carriers of information, and they dynamically accumulate over time characteristics that indicate the degree of accumulation of information and also their ability to significantly influence the present and control the future.…”

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Understanding Urban Complexity via the Spatial Diversity of Activities: An Application to Barcelona (Spain)

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Riu

Izquierdo

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Sustainability

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Urban complexity can be measured by the numerical and spatial diversity of activities in a territory. Just as biodiversity can be measured in a natural ecosystem, diversity indices can be applied to urban settings. Urban diversity presents higher values in areas where there is a greater number of (economic, institutional, and social) activities with a high degree of differentiation between them. This study seeks to investigate the potential of applying an urban diversity index in a specific case study: namely, the city of Barcelona (Spain), known for the orthogonal grid plan of its Eixample district. Results show that the municipal territory of Barcelona as a whole is characterized by highly differentiated spaces according to their urban diversity values. Specifically, it is the Eixample district that presents the highest values of urban diversity, reflecting the densification of its morphology and its urban commercial policies.

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How to Incorporate Urban Complexity, Diversity and Intelligence into Smart Cities Initiatives

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

A Decade Review on Smart Cities: Paradigms, Challenges and Opportunities

Understanding Urban Complexity via the Spatial Diversity of Activities: An Application to Barcelona (Spain)

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