Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London

Shamsuzzoha, Ahm; Nieminen, Juha; Piya, Sujan; Rutledge, K.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2021.103194

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“…Smart cities can be used as a strategy for Ukrainian development, but high population density is the reason for traffic jams, residue accumulation, the increasing number of enterprises, and the decreasing number of natural landscapes. Freiburg is a German eco-friendly city, where reconstruction is based on energy-saving technologies, which have significantly reduced atmospheric pollution [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ecosystem of Environmentally Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure in Ukraine

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For the Ukrainian population, there are factors surrounding the choices and preferences one must consider when changing permanent residence. Smart residential areas should be built according to Ukrainian legislation and global innovations, which would reduce administrative dislocations, the load on megalopolises, and negative anthropogenic impacts, and should be based on the increase in energy efficiency and reducing waste. We analyzed the core principles of designing smart residential areas and concluded that constructing cutting-edge residential areas should involve private investments in order to avoid shadow schemes and irrational use of funds (in the Ukraine, the share of the shadow market is more than 50%). Research shows that, as humans inhabit a three-dimensional space, it is possible to predict migration and other permanent residence/behavioral responses, the analysis of which allows controlling migration flows and improves the conditions of Ukraine’s small residential areas based on decarbonization. We conclude that energy saving systems can reduce consumption in a city by 60% and improve Ukraine’s ecosystem. Research also shows that reducing “dislocation”, in terms of population density, by creating open, innovative, eco-friendly environments based on green economy principles, can provide innovative development maps and economic, social, and cultural population growth, decreasing the load on big cities/regional economies, and encourage the restoration of sales markets and production after the COVID-19 pandemic. We developed a model to assess the innovativeness of residential areas, apply alternative methods of energy generation, and analyze the impact of the energy production and consumption market in Europe (with recommendations for the Ukraine). This article estimates energy intensity indicators of the gross domestic product in the Ukraine and in Europe, offering methods to decrease energy dependence and increase energy efficiency in the Ukraine, by adopting alternative energy sources (e.g., biohydrogen out of residues, air, and solar energy), and enhancing environmental legislation.

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“…Along with landscape problems, there is the problem surrounding obsolescence in infrastructure, irrational planning of highways, and obsolescence of technology [11]. There are opportunities for energy efficiency in all infrastructure elements and surrounding landscapes, which would not only benefit the environment, but also humans [12].…”

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“…Importantly to Yigitcanlar et al's definition, these outcomes collectively exist within a singular smart city system that is nested within the natural environment and its social and political context. Recent publications refer to Yigitcanlar et al's definition as the current smart city understanding in 2021 [6,7].…”

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Smart Heritage: Defining the Discourse

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The academic literature contains an increasing quantity of references to Smart Heritage. These references are at the intersection of the smart city and heritage disciplines and primarily within informative, interpretative, and governance applications. The literature indicates the future expansion of the Smart Heritage discourse into additional applications as researchers apply smart technology to more complex cultural environments. The Smart Heritage discourse signals an advancement in the literature beyond Digital Heritage and Virtual Heritage discourses as Smart Heritage pivots on the active curatorship of heritage experiences by automated and autonomous technologies, rather than technology as a passive digital tool for human-curated experiences. The article comprehensively reviews the emergent Smart Heritage discourse for the first time in the academic literature, and then offers a contemporary definition that considers the literature to date. The review and definition draw on literature across the contributing disciplines to understand the discourse’s development and current state. The article finds that Smart Heritage is an independent discourse that intertwines the autonomous and automatic capabilities and innovation of smart technologies with the contextual and subjective interpretation of the past. Smart Heritage is likely the future vanguard for research between the technology and heritage disciplines.

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“…Very common experience is to compare different city experiences in different regions, like in Shamsuzzoha et al [17] where they create a comparison of participatory strategies for a smart city for sustainable environment from Helsinki, Singapore and London. Less common is concentration on the individual level aspects.…”

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“…A lot of urban studies proves that various actors responsible for converting a traditional to a smart city can contribute to environmental sustainability [25]. Shamsuzzoha with co-authors [17] conclude that the current research on smart city does not fully address the complex nature, conflicts and interdependencies. Analysed research prove that smart initiatives involve a lot of partners and use technologies and data, citizen involvement and the aims to create more sustainable socially, economically and environmental balanced cities [26,27].…”

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Exploring Sustainable Urban Transformation Concepts for Economic Development

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Nowadays cities face numerous challenges amplified to build necessary urban municipal and community capacity to ensure sustainability transformation to respond to the local and global challenges of climate change, inequality, and access to resources. This research combines the study fields of sustainability, economic development, governance of sustainability transformation, providing the multidisciplinary approach as a systemic-oriented view encompassing the social, technological and ecological aspects of urban transformation. The purpose of the paper is to explore how the concept of urban transformation could be operationalized for research of economic development under the economic strain assuming the emergency of Covid-19 grand challenge. The research methods used are a systematic literature review and the content analysis. The paper provides a detailed characterization of the urban transformation exploring this concept from the structure and system perspectives for the economic exit from the crisis.

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Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London

Cited by 126 publications

References 46 publications

Ecosystem of Environmentally Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure in Ukraine

Ecosystem of Environmentally Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure in Ukraine

Smart Heritage: Defining the Discourse

Exploring Sustainable Urban Transformation Concepts for Economic Development

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