The Role of Smart City Characteristics in the Plans of Fifteen Cities

Angelidou, Margarita

doi:10.1080/10630732.2017.1348880

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“…In particular, it is important to address the digital divides pertaining to education, age, social status, culture, ethnicity, gender, and disability. Angelidou [9] found that most smart city strategies are poorly adapted to accommodate the local needs of their area, fail to incorporate bottom-up approaches, and fall short in considering issues of privacy and security. In a recent work, Carrasco-Sáez et al [31] propose a new pyramid of needs for the digital citizens as a way of transitioning towards smart human cities or socially sustainable smart cities.…”

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On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review

2019

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There has recently been a conscious push for cities across the globe to be smart and even smarter and thus more sustainable by developing and implementing big data technologies and their applications across various urban domains in the hopes of reaching the required level of sustainability and improving the living standard of citizens. Having gained momentum and traction as a promising response to the needed transition towards sustainability and to the challenges of urbanisation, smart and smarter cities as approaches to data-driven urbanism are increasingly adopting the advanced forms of ICT to improve their performance in line with the goals of sustainable development and the requirements of urban growth. One of such forms that has tremendous potential to enhance urban operations, functions, services, designs, strategies, and policies in this direction is big data analytics and its application. This is due to the kind of well-informed decision-making and enhanced insights enabled by big data computing in the form of applied intelligence. However, topical studies on big data technologies and their applications in the context of smart and smarter cities tend to deal largely with economic growth and the quality of life in terms of service efficiency and betterment while overlooking and barely exploring the untapped potential of such applications for advancing sustainability. In fact, smart and smarter cities raise several issues and involve significant challenges when it comes to their development and implementation in the context of sustainability. With that in regard, this paper provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review and synthesis of the field of smart and smarter cities in relation to sustainability and related big data analytics and its application in terms of the underlying foundations and assumptions, research issues and debates, opportunities and benefits, technological developments, emerging trends, future practices, and challenges and open issues. This study shows that smart and smarter cities are associated with misunderstanding and deficiencies as regards their incorporation of, and contribution to, sustainability. Nevertheless, as also revealed by this study, tremendous opportunities are available for utilising big data analytics and its application in smart cities of the future to improve their contribution to the goals of sustainable development by optimising and enhancing urban operations, functions, services, designs, strategies, and policies, as well as by finding answers to challenging analytical questions and thereby advancing knowledge forms. However, just as there are immense opportunities ahead to embrace and exploit, there are enormous challenges and open issues ahead to address and overcome in order to achieve a Open Access © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creat iveco mmons .org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, pro...

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On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review

2019

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“…Концепция «умного города» становится объектом исследования многих международных организаций, научно-исследовательских учреждений, ученых, а также органов власти по всему миру. Однако до сих пор в научной среде не сложилось единого мнения о том, что действительно делает город «умнее» [3][4][5], какие элементы должен иметь «умный город», чтобы обеспечить высокое качество жизни и благоприятные условия для населения [6]. В наиболее цитируемых и недавно опубликованных работах в международных базах данных научного цитирования большое внимание уделяется обсуждению аспектов, связанных с концепцией «умного города».…”

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Smart Cities as a New Quality of Life Standard

Пивкина

2019

Gumanitarnye nauki

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ПивкинаНатальяЮрьевна, аспирант экономического факультета, МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова, Москва, Россия natasha.pivkina@mail.ru Аннотация.За последние десять лет создание «умных городов» стало приоритетным направлением развития цифровой экономики в мире, что нашло отражение не только в официальных документах ведущих международных организаций (ООН, ОЭСР, Европейская комиссия), но и в научных исследованиях многих зарубежных ученых. В настоящее время существует ряд подходов к определению понятия «умный город». Данное исследование позволит преодолеть некоторые теоретические пробелы в целостном исследовательском подходе к изучению «умных городов», особенно в части влияния информационно-телекоммуникационных технологий на повышение качества жизни и благосостояние жителей городов, поскольку в концепции «умного города» создание комфортных условий для жизни является одной из важнейших задач. Особое внимание в статье уделено анализу литературы по проблематике «умных городов» на основе международных баз данных научного цитирования -Web of Science и Scopus. Выделенный публикационный поток позволил оценить результативность исследований по предметным областям, связанным с экономикой. Наибольшее число проектов по созданию «умных городов» было реализовано в Европе, значительный вклад в развитие международных стандартов внесли исследователи из Великобритании. В российской практике данная тема только начинает развиваться как в правовых и нормативных документах, так и в экономических работах. Важным этапом в решении этой проблемы должна стать реализация национальной программы «Цифровая экономика Российской Федерации» и проект «Умный город» в рамках национального проекта «Жилье и городская среда» в 2019 г. Abstract. Over the past ten years, the creation of smart cities has become a priority in the development of the digital economy over the world. It is reflected not only in official documents of the leading international organisations including the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the EuropeanCommission but also in scientific research of many foreign scientists. There are several approaches to the definition of the term "smart city". This article will overcome some theoretical gaps in a holistic research approach to the study of smart cities, especially in terms of the impact of information and telecommunication technologies on improving the quality of life and well-being of urban residents, because creating a comfortable living environment is one of the most essential tasks in the concept of a smart city. The author paid particular attention to the analysis of the literature on the problems of smart cities based on the international databases of scientific citing -Web of Science and Scopus; a resulting publication stream made it possible to assess the effectiveness of research in subject areas related to economics. The most significant number of projects to create smart cities were implemented in European cities. Researchers from the UK made a substantial contribution to the dev...

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“…В-третьих, дискуссионным вопросом остается соотношение между преимуществами цифровизации для городского управления и экономического развития и сохранением города как особого социального пространства, в котором спонтанный порядок позволяет выстраивать доверительные отношения между горожанами [21,22]. С одной стороны, примеры отдельных городов (например, Барселоны и Амстердама) иллюстрируют, как технологии «умных» городов могут содействовать коммуникации между жителями [23,24]. С другой, большинство современных проектов цифровизации городов игнорирует данный пункт, что может привести к нивелированию социального капитала в городских сообществах и/или росту сопротивления традиционного города как саморегулирующейся системы.…”

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Problems and Prospects of Realisation of the Concept “Smart City” in Russia (on the Example of Moscow)

Рустямович

2019

Mir novoj jekonomiki

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The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the possibility of realisation of the concept “Smart city” in Russia. The purpose of the work is to study the problems and prospects of digitalisation of urban management on the example of such a project in Moscow. The research methodology includes neo-institutional and system approaches, as well as analysis of statistics and social research data. The paper deals equally with theoretical and applied aspects of the presented topic. Initially, the author revealed the content of the concept, the possibility of using technologies of “smart” city for purposes of territorial management and socio-economic development. The author showed that the central role for the successful realisation of the concept is played by human capital and readiness of society for changes, infrastructure base, sustainable interaction of state structures, scientific and technical institutions and business. From now on, the author investigated the possibility of digitalisation of urban management in Moscow, such aspects as experience and preparation for implementation of programs of “smart” city, the level of digital infrastructure development, the necessary institutional base for innovation, the level of human capital, the characteristics of the technological solutions are analyzed. Despite the existence of the institutional and infrastructure base for the implementation of the concept “Smart city”, for the city administration in the future, it will be a relevant activity to build sufficient communication with the population to study the readiness of the latter to the large-scale introduction of artificial intelligence technologies and data collection. It is also necessary to develop the urban digital infrastructure. For “Smart city” projects are considered to be megaprojects, there will also be a demand for competent project management, the interaction between political institutions, scientific and technology organisations. The results of this study can be applied to the analysis of various problems related to the development and implementation of digital technologies.

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The Role of Smart City Characteristics in the Plans of Fifteen Cities

Cited by 314 publications

References 38 publications

On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review

On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review

Smart Cities as a New Quality of Life Standard

Problems and Prospects of Realisation of the Concept “Smart City” in Russia (on the Example of Moscow)

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