The Global Urban: Difference and
						Complexity in Urban Studies and the Science of Cities

Parnell, Susan; Robinson, Jennifer

doi:10.4135/9781526402059.n2

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“…Through this perspective, the distinguishing features of future cities should be the following [41][42][43][44]:…”

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Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Szpilko

2020

Energies

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Global change, including population growth, economic development and climate change constitute urgent challenges for the smart cities of the 21st century. Cities need to effectively manage their development and meet challenges that have a significant impact on their economic activity, as well as health and quality of life for their citizens. In the context of continuous change, city decision-makers are constantly looking for new smart tools to tackle it. This article addresses this gap, indicating foresight as an effective tool that anticipates the future of a smart city. Its aim is to develop a methodology for planning and implementing a vision of smart city development based on foresight research. The proposed methodology consists of five stages and was developed with the use of methodology for designing hybrid systems. It is an organised, transparent and flexible process which can facilitate the development of sustainable and smart future visions of smart city development by virtue of the involvement, knowledge and experience of a large number of urban stakeholders at all stages of its creation. The article discusses in detail the operationalisation of each stage of the methodology in which the following main methods were used: megatrend analysis, factors analysis: social (S), technological (T), economic (E), ecological (E), political (P), relating to values (V) and legal (L) (STEEPVL), structural analysis, Delphi, creative visioning, scenarios and identifying actions related to the development of a smart city, divided into four categories: new, so far not undertaken (N); implemented so far, to be continued (C); redundant, to be discontinued (R); actions that have been implemented in the past and to be restored (R) (NCRR). The summary enumerates the benefits that foresight implementation can bring to the smart city.

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“…Through this perspective, the distinguishing features of future cities should be the following [41][42][43][44]:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Szpilko

2020

Energies

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“…It must embrace the diversity of urban disciplines, and recognize effective interdisciplinary combinations that equally allow for a global outlook, insights into issues of inequality and justice, and for a prioritization of effective advice to urban policymakers 4 . Building effective sciencepolicy interfaces for urban challenges will require different modes of operating from traditional fields such as engineering or artificial intelligence, where there are recognized ontologies and epistemologies and professional certification clearly defines the community of experts.…”

Section: Urban Science For Global Sustainabilitymentioning

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Building a global urban science

2018

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“…This is an immensely challenging question with no simple answer, and the approaches taken in social and natural sciences to global urbanism have only limited concerns (Parnell and Robinson 2017). There is a surprising lack of common understanding even among scientific disciplines on what characterizes or defines an urban area or urbanization, making comparative and composite assessments of urban change difficult.…”

Section: What Is Urban?mentioning

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“…The centrality of cities to the sustainability of people, the planet, and prosperity points to the need for continuous investments in an expanded and flexible urban science that is forged out of innovative interdisciplinary understandings of the complex systems that both drive and derive from the prevalence of urban ways of being (Parnell et al 2017). This volume draws together nascent interdisciplinary and cross-stakeholder urban dialogues, with some contributors actively self-defining as part of a new urban science community and others presenting themselves as concerned thinkers or contributors to a more open-ended debate on the significance of the urban planet.…”

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“…One lasting finding found the new critical urban natures approaches and in the parallel body of critical urban studies is that diversity is an overarching theme that cannot be ignored in the global generalization or universalizing (Parnell and Robinson, 2017). While there is endless diversity, the urban planet is also unified by a set of mega-challenges, some of which are truly global, such as climate.…”

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