Smart Sustainable Cities: The Essentials for Managers’ and Leaders’ Initiatives within the Complex Context of Differing Definitions and Assessments

Schiavo, Fabienne T.; Magalhães, Cláudio F. de

doi:10.3390/smartcities5030050

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“…Several definitions of the 'smart city' exist in the scholarly literature [19]. Earlier studies argue that the smart city concept arose as a result of the goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (see [20]), which qualify certain initiatives and plans for urban development as 'smart' [21]. A predominant view sees a smart city when investments in human and social capital and in traditional and modern communication means and infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth as well as high quality of life, while managing natural resources, as achieved by participatory governance.…”

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Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

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Smart tourism destinations have received increasing attention during the last few years. Digital technologies have reshaped the smart city paradigm in terms of both resilience and sustainability, capitalizing cities’ cultural and historical components while providing unique potential for growth in the real estate industry. Real estate, in particular, is considered a main asset to the tourist experience, whether it is in the form of hospitality accommodation facilities, urban landscapes, or cultural heritage hotspots. In addition, the effect of cultural sites and overall destination attractiveness on real estate dynamics (land/housing prices and building activity) is well established. Thus, uncovering how enhanced technological throughputs and synergies, culture-led urban sustainability initiatives and the real estate dimension are directly (or indirectly) associated could support cities to better delineate policies for their promotion as international, sustainable, and resilient tourist destinations. With this perspective, the present study focused on four particular cities’ successful smart initiatives, namely Amsterdam, Barcelona, Seoul, and Stockholm, in an attempt to identify how developers and local authorities will need to transform in order to offer better services to residents and visitors. This work reveals that smart projects alone cannot secure the transition of existing (European) cities into smart and sustainable tourism destinations. In addition, this study also contributes to public policy by demonstrating how challenging it is to be smart without the support and involvement of the local community, highlighting the significance of public awareness. The empirical findings suggest that local authorities are of critical importance when shaping a well-structured and practically effective strategy for the integration of sustainable and technologically advanced smart features. Results are promising, and final reflections provide insights for tourism destinations policymakers, city authorities, and real estate professionals.

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“…Schiavo and Magalhães [23] were able to test out various climate projections and other potential future states of the system with the help of these models. Metabolic assessments of cities have been a popular issue in urban modeling because to the increased focus on sustainable development that began in the 1990s and has continued with the advent of global climate change and the push toward low carbon development.…”

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A Critical Analysis on Complex Urban Systems and Complex Systems Theory

Dong

2023

JCNS

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Deep neural complexity theory has recently received new attention, particularly in the study of climate and the environment. According to the majority of the research on urban climate resilience, cities are complex adaptive systems, and as such, urban governance and design should take cues from the study of complex adaptive systems. This means that climate change governance, in order to mitigate the problems presented by climate change's unpredictability, has to be flexible, participatory, and adaptive. This article provides a critical literature review on the topic of Complex Urban Systems, i.e., climate change governance in the context of complexity theory. The paper argues that the current hype around complexity theory exaggerates the theory's relevance. Complexity theory falls short in explaining urbanization and environmental change since they are highly contested social phenomena. However, it serves a significant purpose in bringing attention to the uncertainty realities in the process of policy-making, which are certainly fundamental in the context of climate change, including the changing ecologies on which cities rely. Many critics of complexity theory point out that it tends to showcase urban developments are happening through neutral evolutionary forces, which can be comprehended, and governed by individuals engaged in governance for a particular objective.

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“…From this, it is clear that a sustainable smart city is one that is designed to address its social, environmental, and economic impacts through urban planning and city management, incorporating in the process various forms of ICT [35]. However, whereas the literature on smart cities focuses, on the one hand, on framing dimensions (i.e., smart mobility, smart environments, smart people, smart living, smart governance, and smart economies [36]) and, on the other hand, on parameters of technological intelligence, the domain of outer space and its connection with smart cities has been left untouched.…”

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Strengthening Urban Resilience: Understanding the Interdependencies of Outer Space and Strategic Planning for Sustainable Smart Environments

Botezatu,

Bucovetchi,

Gheorghe

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Smart Cities

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The conventional approach to urban planning has predominantly focused on horizontal dimensions, disregarding the potential risks originating from outer space. This paper aims to initiate a discourse on the vertical dimension of cities, which is influenced by outer space, as an essential element of strategic urban planning. Through an examination of a highly disruptive incident in outer space involving a collision between the Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 satellites, this article elucidates the intricate interdependencies between urban areas and outer space infrastructure and services. Leveraging the principles of critical infrastructure protection, which bridge the urban and outer space domains, and employing simulation methods and software, this study articulates the intricate governance complexities of urban security and presents viable solutions for its enhancement. Consequently, the study contributes to the ongoing deliberations regarding the spatial integration of security practices by providing scholarly discourse on urban governance with potential strategies for cultivating sustainable smart cities. In essence, the intrinsic resilience of urban areas heavily relies on the interconnections between cities and outer space, necessitating urban strategists to acknowledge and comprehend these intricate interdependencies. To ensure sustainable urban development, it is imperative to fortify smart cities’ resilience against space debris through the implementation of more stringent regulations.

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Smart Sustainable Cities: The Essentials for Managers’ and Leaders’ Initiatives within the Complex Context of Differing Definitions and Assessments

Cited by 26 publications

References 98 publications

Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

A Critical Analysis on Complex Urban Systems and Complex Systems Theory

Strengthening Urban Resilience: Understanding the Interdependencies of Outer Space and Strategic Planning for Sustainable Smart Environments

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