‘Smart city’ system as an asset of cultural landscapes development

Abstract

The article touches upon the idea of ‘smart city’ and ways of how it could be applied to advancing contemporary urban environment. Highlighting variety of definitions this popular term demonstrates there is posed a problem of apprehension both in theory and architectural practice. Authors place particular importance on social aspects of the method to be improved to make it adaptable to integrate with cultural heritage. Having referred to successful examples of heritage technological improvement authors claim ‘smart city’ to possess a level of ‘transparency’ high enough to create the superstructure of urban history basis, which is particularly significant for small towns and settlements of Russia. Finally ‘ smart technologies’ pretend to be an efficient strategy in Russian dispersal system for consistency enhancement.

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“…Various studies have shown that cultural landscapes and urban planning are closely related to the evolution of technology and communications, and thus it takes advantage of new technologies to achieve better solutions on the management side. [1] [2] [3] In this respect, my research for the past two years has been focused on the Smart side of Cultural Landscapes. How to tackle with this concept and what it implies when it comes to the planning process at the local and regional level.…”