Planning for smart sustainable cities: Decisions in the planning process and actor networks

Kramers, Anna; Höjer, Mattias; Wangel, Josefin

doi:10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.36

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“…Urban planning traditionally relates to ICT as a tool to facilitate and improve the planning practice per se, e.g. through supporting communication and interaction across and within public authorities and citizen communities, for ballots, as well as for visualizing proposals and results [1]. The smart city discourse however emphasizes another role for ICT: as a distributed infrastructure of meters, servers, computing capacity and interfaces together forming a sort of digital nervous system for the city, facilitating the management of urban infrastructures and services [2,3].…”

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Governing the Smart Sustainable City: the case of Stockholm Royal Seaport

Kramers¹,

Wangel²,

Höjer³

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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The aim of this paper is to improve the understanding on how city administrations can integrate ICT solutions for urban sustainability into processes of planning, i.e. how to govern the Smart Sustainable City. The paper is based on a case study of how the City of Stockholm has worked with integrating ICT solutions in the urban development project the Stockholm Royal Seaport (SRS). Through interviews with city officials and analysis of planning and policy documents we track how ICT became a part of the environmental program for the SRS, how this type of technology is conceived in terms of relation to the planning and implementation of other urban technologies, as well as what expected effects are highlighted. For this specific case we also distil some general lessons learned regarding what worked well and what did not. Finally, we draw conclusions regarding how ICT and sustainability can be merged in the planning phase of new urban developments and, ultimately, how a city administration can govern a city towards a Smart Sustainable City.

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Governing the Smart Sustainable City: the case of Stockholm Royal Seaport

Kramers¹,

Wangel²,

Höjer³

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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“…Participatory approaches move away from an orientation that sees "user practices and attitudes as problems to be 'solved' rather than drawn upon". For Kramers [66], citizen participation is the essence of the smart sustainable city (see also Ringensson [67]). The participation they envisage goes beyond the ICT enabled transparency, communication with authorities, online voting and so on, to a networked form of governance.…”

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Shifting the maturity needle of ICT for Sustainability

Mann¹,

Bates²,

Maher³

EPiC Series in Computing

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The ubiquity of ICT means the potential of ICT4S covers a broad range of sustainability topics and application domains. However, ICT4S research can be ill positioned with regard to the complexity of transforming society in such a way that people and environmental ecologies can coexist in a sustainable system. The danger is that ICT4S becomes partitioned into a small subset of sustainability and using a limited set of the levers at our disposal. Grounded in the Mann-Bates maturity scale for sustainability this paper performs an analysis of the ICT4S conference corpus to measure how mature the research is in our field with regard to sustainability. Based on this analysis we identify areas in which the ICT4S community can begin to shift the maturity of research in order to promote sustainable futures. By applying the Transformation Mindset our article demonstrates through a series of illustrative how ICT4S can apply this mindset to shift ICT4S research towards more sustainable trajectories. This is an essential first step in taking stock, highlighting shortcomings and identifying opportunities in ICT for sustainability.

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“…Based on the sustainability approach, this fourth pillar should be part of Smart City development, and therefore, it is important to integrate sustainability and smart city frameworks so that both views are accounted for. Therefore, the more accurate term "Smart Sustainable Cities" (SSC) should be used [32]. Table 2 presents an overview of definitions mentioned in the literature.…”

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“…Based on all of the constituent definitions, we find that there is agreement on the significant role of ICT in smart urban development [22], that the meaning of a Smart (Sustainable) City is multi-faceted [23], and has a holistic point of perception [32] where people and environment play an important role. Table 2.…”

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Characteristics of Smart Sustainable City Development: Implications for Project Management

Schipper¹,

Silvius

2018

Smart Cities

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Projects and project management (PM) are becoming a way of working, and many changes in society have evolved because of projects. However, will the societal agenda also influence the project management discipline? Societal issues generated by urban population growth and rapid urbanization arise in cities. Making a city “smart” and sustainable is emerging as a strategy to mitigate these issues. How does this development impact project management? In order to answer this question, we performed meaningful learning by mapping the concepts for Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) and project management and developing prior and post concept maps. We identified four major findings describing the implication of societal issues on project management: quality of life acts as a societal objective for PM; PM governs autonomous projects with new business models; and PM success criteria are related to stakeholders and long-term effects, as well as extensive connection to the digital world with consideration of the privacy and ethics. From this, we were able to redefine the definition of project management as “a collaborative endeavor of all affected stakeholders equivalently participating in exploring and exploiting, via an autonomous temporary organization, fit-for-purpose deliverables with connections to the digital platform, thereby aiming to prepare the entities of the affected stakeholders for the future”. Our study is novel and relevant for PM and SSC practice: societal issues are on the strategy agenda of many governments and companies, and these will drive the projects that are performed in this environment. The project management community should align with this development, since these challenges are part of their environment. As a start, a comprehensive understanding of the impact of societal issues is relevant to build new definitions, competences, and supporting processes.

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Planning for smart sustainable cities: Decisions in the planning process and actor networks

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Governing the Smart Sustainable City: the case of Stockholm Royal Seaport

Governing the Smart Sustainable City: the case of Stockholm Royal Seaport

Shifting the maturity needle of ICT for Sustainability

Characteristics of Smart Sustainable City Development: Implications for Project Management

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