Smart city planning from a bottom-up approach: local communities' intervention for a smarter urban environment

Alverti, Maroula N.; Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G.; Kyriakidis, Phaedon C.; Serraos, Konstantinos

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“…In terms of addressing the lack of community in smart city initiatives, academic literature provides several remedies related to empowering citizens through the utilization of e-government and e-democracy for better planning and participatory decision-making (Conroy and Evans-Cowley 2006; Evans-Cowley and Manta Conroy 2006). There are several smart interventions incorporating digital public participation tools (see Alverti et al 2016; Stratigea, Papadopoulou and Panagiotopoulou 2015). Overall, this paper will argue that there are no universal remedies for planning the involvement of communities.…”

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Understanding and Enabling “Communities” Within Smart Cities: A Literature Review

Al-Saidi,

Zaidan

2023

Journal of Planning Literature

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Community-level interventions through technological updates and connectedness are quite popular within smart city visions. These interventions, under the collective label of smart and connected communities (SCC), promise to increase technology access, services, and the sense of entrepreneurship and organization at the community level. This paper addresses the lack of academic research investigating SCC with regard to its merits and linkages to the debate on smart cities. It reviews the academic literature on conceptions, constituents, and enablers of SCC. It highlights SCC as a concept with more issues and complexity than conventional smart city projects, particularly with regard to soft or human-related factors. While SCC is associated with diverse objectives, there are some basic elements of SCC projects such as a common direction, digitalization, optimization, better services, and participation. This paper also presents a range of critical factors and enablers based on previous studies. These factors include the features of communities and services as well as collaborative and institutional mechanisms. This paper shows the importance of the planning and design tasks in initiating SCC interventions. When designing successful and context-specific SCC projects, it is important to address the contextual environment of SCC through an informed SCC project design. This is particularly relevant for (ill-defined) communities with unconducive institutional context or no cooperation legacies. The success of SCC often depends on engagement and change management within communities as well as the development of context-specific, and often iterative, project designs.

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Understanding and Enabling “Communities” Within Smart Cities: A Literature Review

Al-Saidi,

Zaidan

2023

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…In the field of urban planning, smart public participation and bottom‐up smart cities are one of the main challenges today (Alverti et al, 2016; Kourtit et al, 2020). Thus, smart urban planning can be defined as one that, along with all other issues affecting the sustainable development of cities, is concerned with making urban decision‐making processes more participatory between governments and civil society, thereby contributing to making smart cities more inclusive through the application of innovative technologies (Lee et al, 2020; Levenda et al, 2020).…”

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Addressing new challenges in smart urban planning using Information and Communication Technologies

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Cities today face the challenge of achieving more participatory and inclusive urban planning. Information and Communication Technologies make it possible to have access to information on the preferences and real uses that citizens make of urban public space; activities that are not always those foreseen in the original planning of cities. This knowledge provides a new understanding of urban capabilities and opportunities that enables planning closer to citizens' needs and designing cities more intelligently and effectively. Thus, a new, more social urbanism, where the citizen is a participant and not a mere observer, is possible with the help of technology. This work studies the potential of geolocated data generated by citizens and retrieved from social networks of sport, which analysis has been possible with the support of the measurement and visualization tools offered by geographic information systems accessible online, open access cartography available on the Internet, among other resources.

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“…In this context, introducing structural measures that make active mobility "irresistible" may be a promising approach. International studies illustrate how a transition towards bike-friendly cities can be achieved (Alverti et al, 2016;Dill et al, 2014;Larsen, 2017;Mueller et al, 2015;Mueller et al, 2018).…”

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Austrian Special Report Health, Demography and Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers and Synthesis

2019

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This publication has been published as a pdf version (available at https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at https://epub.oeaw.ac.at/8430-0) and in book form published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This report includes the Summary for Policymakers and the Synthesis of the Austrian Special Report on Health, Demography and Climate Change (ASR18 -full volume in German language available at https://epub.oeaw.ac.at/8427-0). The Special Report contains references to online supplements, which provide further texts on selected contents of the report (available at https://epub.oeaw.ac.at/8464-5).

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Smart city planning from a bottom-up approach: local communities' intervention for a smarter urban environment

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Understanding and Enabling “Communities” Within Smart Cities: A Literature Review

Understanding and Enabling “Communities” Within Smart Cities: A Literature Review

Addressing new challenges in smart urban planning using Information and Communication Technologies

Austrian Special Report Health, Demography and Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers and Synthesis

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