The Advancement of World Digital Cities

Yasuoka, Mika; Ishida, Toru; Aurigi, Alessandro

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_35

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“…An important finding from the above analysis is that although a digital city is an ambitious and important initiative for any city, and the future of urban living, and although it may succeed in terms of project development (it meets its requirements in scope, time, budget and quality) it can fail in its social adoption -as happened in many cases-(Table 3). Failures can occur due to inappropriate requirements' analysis (Ishida et al, 2009), which provides with a technological form and with ICT solutions that do not by themselves (a) close the digital divide, (b) support the local economic growth, and (c) guarantee digital city's economic viability (New Millennium Research Council, 2005). E-Trikala for instance, defined an overestimated e-service portfolio, which demands extensive maintenance funding that cannot be obtained -especially under the current fiscal Greek environment-, and which has not been adopted by the local community.…”

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The Project Management Perspective for a Digital City

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Ipsilantis

Kazantzi

2014

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management

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Digital cities have been evolved during the last decade and they have installed various information systems and information and communication technology (ICT) based infrastructures across various cities in the world. Most digital cities are ongoing investments, while their outcomes are differentiated from their primary objectives, and many of them are declined although their deliverables have been achieved. The aim of this paper is to approach the digital city as a unique project instead of a program of projects. In this context, a digital city can be considered a complex and large scale project, while the project management perspective will be applied on two representative forms of digital cities in order to conclude on a common management model, to underline the difficulties of such a project, and to provide with useful instructions that can be used by current and by future project managers who approach a similar initiative.

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The Project Management Perspective for a Digital City

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Ipsilantis

Kazantzi

2014

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management

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“…From Kyoto to Honolulu and Amsterdam digital city governments are being experimented with. (Yasuoka 2010). However, there is little concrete policy planning by local governments for this innovation, and little reflection on how this can render cities nodes of global networks.…”

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Global Survival

Hamelink¹

2012

Nordicom Review

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Confronted with serious challenges to human survival, communication should be mobilized to rescue the planet’s future. This requires the development of new forms of discursive power that shift from a culture of fear to a culture of hope. This can be achieved through global networks of those urban movements that increasingly move beyond their local political environments. The global city can emerge as a crucial site for the claim to human survival in dignity.

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“…The nineties saw the emergence of a range of 'digital city' initiatives, which sought to enhance the city through implementation of early web based platforms for civic information and communication systems [4]. Theses digital cities took the form of Web or Virtual Cities and early projects included America-On-Line cities [20] the digital city of Kyoto, Japan [12] and the digital city of Amsterdam [17]. These projects, despite sharing the sameor similarlabel of digital or virtual city, varied greatly in breadth, sophistication and above all in the extent to which they were connected and grounded in the local reality of their host cities [2].…”

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From 'digital' to 'smart'

Aurigi

Willis

Melgaço

2016

Proceedings of the 3rd Media Architecture Biennale Conference

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In this paper we seek to reflect on the way in which 'digital cities' later re-emerge as 'smart cities' (both in terms of the approaches and also the actual cities) and what lessons can be learned about the role of ICTs in how they shape urban space. We will focus on looking at how the lack of understanding of the city as a 'place' is often a common factor in the lack of longevity in 'digital city' initiatives and discuss the corresponding implications for the emergence of 'smart cities'. We draw on a study of the city of Bristol, UK in order to look at the variety of initiatives that took Bristol from a 1990's digital city to the current 'smart' projects. We conclude by reflecting on what can be learnt from the lessons of the failed Digital City projects of 1990's and discuss the role that placemaking could play in the development of socially and spatially sustainable smart cities.

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The Advancement of World Digital Cities

Cited by 10 publications

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The Project Management Perspective for a Digital City

The Project Management Perspective for a Digital City

Global Survival

From 'digital' to 'smart'

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