What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities?

Ahvenniemi, Hannele; Huovila, Aapo; Pinto-Seppä, Isabel; Airaksinen, Miimu

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.09.009

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“…Future buildings, embracing intelligent, smart, green and responsive attributes, have become a common topic of various academic debates, research investigations and practical implementations related to the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Besides, recent studies have focused on the sustainable dimension of buildings, their embodied intelligence, and responsive potentials as well as their contribution to smart cities (Ahvenniemi et al 2017;Alalouch, Saleh, and Al-Saadi 2016;Bibri and Krogstie 2016;Martos et al 2016;Yang, Xu, and Shi 2017). This study reviews CONTACT Husam AlWaer h.alwaer@dundee.ac.uk School of Social Sciences (Architecture & Planning), University of Dundee, Matthew Building, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, DD1 4HT, UK the increasing attention to the impacts of buildings on health and well-being of occupants (Clements-Croome 2018; Gens et al 2014;Li et al 2017;Park, Ji, and Hong 2016).…”

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Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough?

AlWaer

Omrany

Ghaffarianhoseini

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Architectural Science Review

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Health and well-being are vitally important aspects of people centric building design and are the roots of productivity. Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a collection of factors that can negatively affect physical health in several ways. Besides physical health is also related to psychological well-being because the human body is one interactive biological system. This paper focuses on reviewing the current state of knowledge on building sickness syndrome which has been prevalent as a building illness since the 1970s especially in offices and schools. While the concepts of intelligent, smart and sustainable buildings have gained considerable attention during recent decades, there is now increasing attention being given to designing healthy buildings. This study provides a review about SBS symptoms. Several negative effects of SBS are identified and potential solutions are advocated. Finally, the study stresses the role of built environment and concludes that ongoing research towards tackling SBS and developing healthy indoor environments should not be limited to a single formula as any health-related building design approach is dependent on several interacting factors. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough?

AlWaer

Omrany

Ghaffarianhoseini

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“…These partnerships, spaces, and methodologies facilitate transdisciplinary sustainability science while providing sustained support to solutions research and allowing for the integration of knowledge from diverse cases over longer periods of time. The smart city movement has also viewed cities as test beds for smart technologies [20,21]. New research seeks to integrate smart and sustainable cities concepts and urban labs have been developed that utilize smart technologies in the service of sustainability objectives [7,22].…”

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Transferring Sustainability Solutions across Contexts through City–University Partnerships

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Abstract:The urgency of climate change and other sustainability challenges makes transferring and scaling solutions between cities a necessity. However, solutions are deeply contextual. To accelerate solution efforts, there is a need to understand how context shapes the development of solutions. Universities are well positioned to work with cities on transferring solutions from and to other cities. This paper analyses five case studies of city-university partnerships in three countries on transferring solutions. Our analysis suggests that understanding the interest, the action on sustainability, and the individual and collective sustainability competences on the part of the city administration and the university can help facilitate the transfer of sustainability solutions across contexts. We conclude that the nature of the city-university partnership is essential to solution transfer and that new and existing networks can be used to accelerate progress on the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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“…There is a quest for understanding smart city in the context of urban sustainability [6], especially when cities nowadays are the keys for defining "why and how the urban condition affects out common future" [34]. Angelidou [15] identified four areas requiring comparative studies between: (1) national and local strategies of urban development; (2) urban development stages of new and existing cities; (3) hard and soft infrastructure oriented strategies [33,43,50,106]; and (4) economic sector-based and geographically based reference areas.…”

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“…Some of these themes are constructed and transferred to a value-promised and value-laden marketing concept and even city brand although there often exists questionable compatibility and a strong tension between the quest for diversity and the desire for distinctiveness [2,3]. Across a great variety of city themes, two of them stand out to be more relevant and interconnected to urban sustainability: green city [4] and smart city [5,6], although the two concepts emerged and evolved in separate eras of urban development [7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Knowledge-Perception Bridge of Green-Smart Integration of Cities: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong

Chan

Marafa

2018

Sustainability

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Cities often thematize themselves as attractive and sustainable places by adopting some emerging concepts of urban development. Green city and smart city are two of these themes that contain distinctive but often overlapping attributes. These green and smart city attributes, as proposed in previous studies, are tested with a sample of Hong Kong residents (n = 243). This paper identifies the factors in a combined green-smart theme of Hong Kong based on local perception. The empirical results confirm that local residents believe Hong Kong is performing smarter than greener. The findings from factor analysis reveal a combined green-smart structure consisting of one mixed green-smart infrastructural elements and six other specific factors about greenness or smartness. Regression also builds up two models showing the locally-perceived determinants of a successful green city and smart city for Hong Kong, respectively. This study reflects a complexity-simplicity paradox of how decision makers should respond to a knowledge-perception gap. The result further confirms that human factor, including the engagement and the quality of societal actors, is the key to successful green and smart urban development.

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What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities?

Cited by 1,065 publications

References 42 publications

Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough?

Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough?

Transferring Sustainability Solutions across Contexts through City–University Partnerships

Knowledge-Perception Bridge of Green-Smart Integration of Cities: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong

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