The “smart city” model: the concept, technology, key tasks and the prospects for the modern urbanism development

Abstract

“Smart City” is a key urban trend of our time. The principle of applying the “smart city” model in modern socio-economic systems management in the form of cities, districts, regions and even countries is based on the fact that the urban space is equipped with a digitalization function to increase the urban space comfort for the residents and the guests of this territory. In Russia, this concept introduction founder for objective reasons - the territory size, cargo and passenger flows, a huge tourist and recreational cluster – has become the capital - the city of Moscow [1]. At present, at the state level, the question about the need to develop and implement projects in the “smart city” sphere in small cities, and especially in single-industry towns [2, 3], in the view of solving the able-bodied population outflow key problem from the cities of this type has been raised.