Smart cities of the future

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Posted on: 9 January 2013
By: mackene
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This article, which appears in an issue of The European Physical Journal Special Topics (Vol.214, November 2012), outlines the rudiments of what constitutes a smart city which the authors define as a city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures, coordinated and integrated using new digital technologies. The authors first sketch their vision defining seven goals which concern: developing a new understanding of urban problems; effective and feasible ways to coordinate urban technologies; models and methods for using urban data across spatial and temporal scales; developing new technologies for communication and dissemination; developing new forms of urban governance and organisation; defining critical problems relating to cities, transport, and energy; and identifying risk, uncertainty, and hazards in the smart city. They also define six scenarios based on new cities badging themselves as smart, older cities regenerating themselves as smart, the development of science parks, tech cities, and technopoles focused on high technologies, the development of urban services using contemporary ICT, the use of ICT to develop new urban intelligence functions, and the development of online and mobile forms of participation. Finally the authors anticipate the paradigm shifts that will occur in this research and define a series of key demonstrators which we believe are important to progressing a science of smart cities.

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