Tools and Technologies for Planning the Development of Smart Cities

Abstract

Journal of Urban TechnologyPublication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information:ABSTRACT At present, sustainable urban development constitutes a major planning goal for many urban environments coping with contemporary challenges and problems confronted by world cities. Towards this end, the concept of smart cities emerges as a promising policy option for effectively dealing with sustainability objectives. In this respect, the focus of the present paper is on the development of an ICT-enabled participatory planning framework for guiding policy-making towards the planning of smart cities. This framework is in alignment with the argument that smart-city solutions must start with the "city" not with the "smart," shifting from a technology-pushed to an application-pulled smart-city planning approach, matching different types of "smartness" (technologies, tools, and applications) with different types of urban functions and contexts. It is also built upon a digital platform, integrating tools and technologies for data management and e-participatory planning that can support city-and citizen-specific decision making, capable of dealing with objectives for urban sustainability.

A roadmap for smart city services to address challenges faced by small businesses in South Africa

“…Part of any smart city adoption is ensuring the use of the various services through the ongoing education of the communities; Stratigea et al (2015) and Lövehagen and Bondesson (2013) caution that the failure to properly educate the stakeholders could lead to the lack of service adoption. However, apart from just imparting basic knowledge, smart cities have the potential to provide access to a variety of skills and educational training, such as finance and managementtwo areas which could prove valuable to business owners.…”

“…Chourabi et al (2012), Lee, Hancock and Hu (2014) and Woods and Goldstein (2014) describe the physical aspects of this infrastructure, the servers, storage and processing power that are required. These cities rely heavily on large volumes of data (Stratigea, Papadopoulou & Panagiotopoulou 2015;Woods & Goldstein 2014) in order to provide real-time insight into the cities' operations, thereby allowing them to improve efficiencies and identify emerging trends (Albino et al 2015;Chourabi et al 2012;Stratigea et al 2015).…”

From Organizations to Organizational Fields: The Evolution of Civic Innovation Ecosystems

“…The original computing-and efficiency-oriented vision of smart cities has been redirected (Stratigea et al, 2015). A contemporary approach to urban technology directly addresses many of the critiques of the smart city (Curley, 2016), now accounting for non-economic, non-technological outcomes, and spanning sectors: public, private, academic, and citizen (Vanolo, 2014).…”

Smart City L’Aquila: An Application of the “Infostructure” Approach to Public Urban Mobility in a Post-Disaster Context

“…Various are the examples that range from participatory planning GIS (PPGIS), planning support systems (PSS), social media, decision support systems (DSS), trip planners, collaborative mapping tools, web apps, and so on (Klosterman, 1997(Klosterman, , 2012Shim et al, 2002;Dunn, 2007;Ricca and Scattoni, 2008;Evans-Cowley and Hollander, 2010;Casey and Li, 2012;Brown and Kytta, 2014;Pelzer and Geertman, 2014;Schmidt-Thomè et al, 2014;Tomitsch and Haeusler, 2015;Stratigea et al, 2015). The emergence of new expressions such as urban informatics, community informatics, e-planning and urban technology, and computing, just to mention some, is a clear indicator of their increased use in cities (Gurstein, 2007;Silva, 2010;Zheng et al, 2014).…”