The underlying components of data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: a case study approach to an applied theoretical framework

Bibri, Simon Elias

doi:10.1186/s40309-021-00182-3

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“…While urban areas are melting pots for cultural diversity, people barely have time to interact and reflect. This is the context in which new urban planning models such as the '15-Minute City' [13,76] and the 'Data-Driven Smart Sustainable City' [98] are gaining acceptance, as they not only emphasize the need to reduce reliance on automobiles but also the need for people to interact within their neighborhoods as they walk, ride bicycles or take time in recreation centers [99].…”

Section: The Metaverse and Social Interactions In Urban Settingsmentioning

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The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures

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Data infrastructures, economic processes, and governance models of digital platforms are increasingly pervading urban sectors and spheres of urban life. This phenomenon is known as platformization, which has in turn given rise to the phenomena of platform society, where platforms have permeated the core of urban societies. A recent manifestation of platformization is the Metaverse, a global platform project launched by Meta (formerly Facebook) as a globally operating platform company. The Metaverse represents an idea of a hypothetical “parallel virtual world” that incarnate ways of living and working in virtual cities as an alternative to smart cities of the future. Indeed, with emerging innovative technologies—such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, the IoT, and Digital Twins—providing rich datasets and advanced computational understandings of human behavior, the Metaverse has the potential to redefine city designing activities and service provisioning towards increasing urban efficiencies, accountabilities, and quality performance. However, there still remain ethical, human, social, and cultural concerns as to the Metaverse’s influence upon the quality of human social interactions and its prospective scope in reconstructing the quality of urban life. This paper undertakes an upper-level literature review of the area of the Metaverse from a broader perspective. Further, it maps the emerging products and services of the Metaverse, and explores their potential contributions to smart cities with respect to their virtual incarnation, with a particular focus on the environmental, economic, and social goals of sustainability. This study may help urban policy makers to better understand the opportunities and implications of the Metaverse upon tech-mediated practices and applied urban agendas, as well as assess the positives and negatives of this techno-urban vision. This paper also offers thoughts regarding the argument that the Metaverse has disruptive and substantive effects on forms of reconstructing reality in an increasingly platformized urban society. This will hopefully stimulate prospective research and further critical perspectives on the topic.

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Section: The Metaverse and Social Interactions In Urban Settingsmentioning

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“…Developing a public transportation system dominated by rail transit. Rail transit can be said to be a green mode of the transportation, and in the current situation where the road resources are limited, rail transit should be developed [14][15][16].…”

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Intelligent Shared Bicycle Transportation Planning System Under the Concept of Green Transportation and Smart Cities

2023

International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications

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Intelligent shared bicycle transportation planning system under the concept of the green transportation and smart cities is studied in this paper. The main part of the system we designed is based on the GIS, including the indexing, retrieval, positioning, spatial topology analysis of highway data, etc. The data needs to be accessed through Web GIS during operation to ensure the normal operation of the website. Our simulation study assumes that there is a certain connection between land use and transportation. Under the assumption that other influencing factors remain unchanged. Predict changes in transportation and travel by changing one or more land use variables. Furthermore, the concept of green transportation and smart cities are then combined to enhance the model. The designed framework is simulated under the complex environment.

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“…Therefore, to explore the urbanization issue based on sustainable dimensions, different concepts have been manifested in the literature and United Nations reports, such as green cities, eco-cities, eco-friendly cities, smart cities, sustainable cities, and smart sustainable cities. The most supported models of sustainable urbanism are compacted cities and eco-cities [48], while most literature overseen smart cities concepts [35,38,49].…”

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“…The urban context should be emphasized on the dimensions of sustainable development at the early stage of urban planning. According to Bibri, some key challenges facing sustainable cities are the planning and designing the human settlement forms to enhance and improve sustainability [48]. Globally, the problems yielded by human mistakes in the urbanization development process are recurring and similar.…”

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The Impacts of Unsustainable Urbanization on the Environment

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2023

Sustainable Regional Planning

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Urban areas—cities—are not simply geographic areas for human gathering but are a locus of economic production, cultural and social interactions, and ecological development. Therefore, cities create positive development values when planned and managed on a sustainable footing by considering institutional, governance, environmental, political, economic, coherent policies, cultural, and social conditions and requirements. Sustainable urbanization has multiple benefits including creating more employment opportunities and better incomes, hubs for innovative solutions by attracting competencies, enhancing land utilization efficiency, improving infrastructural performance, providing better services (e.g., education, health, water supply, and electricity), economic growth hub, acting as knowledge centers, better social and cultural life, and providing better living standards. While the impacts of rapid unsustainable urbanization are water stress, scarcity, and high consumption, sanitation wastewater, water pollution, air pollution, climate change, noise pollution, cultivated land depleted, urban sprawl, dust, solid and hazardous wastes, destruction of biodiversity, high energy consumption, traffic congestion, soil pollution, and deforestation. Thus, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—and its sustainable development goals (SDGs)—and New Urban Agenda are key transformative power toward sustainable urbanization development; this development is not at the expense of the environment while leading to prosperity and improving quality of life.

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The underlying components of data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: a case study approach to an applied theoretical framework

Cited by 19 publications

References 60 publications

The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures

The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures

Intelligent Shared Bicycle Transportation Planning System Under the Concept of Green Transportation and Smart Cities

The Impacts of Unsustainable Urbanization on the Environment

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