Smart City Is A Concept

It is estimated that over 50% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas and that this will rise to 70% by 2050. Such a change will

It became “virtual” and turned the real architectural landscape of the city into the collection of spaces and ties between them. The city space started to exist in the global environment, where the distance between two continents can be overcome in shorter time than the distance between two neighbouring areas that have traffic jam. A modern city that preserves the features of its cultural identity and combines them with the progressive technologies of life organization has the biggest chances to become attractive for the citizens and compete for the best of them with other global

The main goal of the documentary is to introduce what the Smart cities are, what benefits can provide us as a citizens, a berifly explanation about how they work and what are the origins of the concept. Also it will bring some incetives to make people participate in some projects that need volunteers or to bring ideas.

The world as we know it is experiencing an unprecedented shift for the first time witnessed in human history. It wasn’t even 100 years ago that the world was still overwhelmingly rural with global urban population rates around 10%. Fast forward to 2015, now accounting for roughly around 53% of the worlds population living in cities and is projected to rise to around 67% by 2050.1 The comparative analysis sets out to understand the opportunities and challenges among the North American megacity New York and the Asian megacity of Beijing. The metropolitan area of both New York and Beijing consist of a population each over 10 million people, which generally defines as a megacity. A “megacity” can also be coined as world city, global city, megalopolis, metropolis, conurbation, and agglomeration. Megacities such as New York and Beijing are comprised of a central core, surrounded by satellite cities within daily commuting distances, separated by greenspace. Thus, urban agglomerations can be numerous cities and towns when they are linked by the flows of people, goods, and information, as long as the aggregate population exceeds 10 million.2

The following authors Sassen, Harvey, Meyrowitz, Mueller, and Starosielski share a common belief that the digital era is experiencing significant changes, whether it is in regard to time and space, or social and material infrastructure. In contemporary society, humans do not have to be as place-dependent, which frees time and space from normal constraints. As a result, this shift in location has an effect on the physical and social environment. Sassen is the author that resonates with me the most due to her view regarding the function of cities in a digital economy.

Modern cities today are populated with hundreds of thousands to billions of citizens sharing their built environment. As urban populations grow so does a dilemma; social isolation– the lack of civil association, of one to one human relationships, of feeling a sense of belonging, especially in a city. The urban environment contributes to social isolation in a multitude of ways. Even with the growth of urban populations social isolation is a problem that affects even the most populated cities around the world. This a problem that affects even the most populated cities around the world due to decisions made in the past. By looking major elements that play a role in cities across United States one can focus on understanding the needs of urban population, particularly those who are isolated to diminish social isolation and build social connectedness through planning. The urban environment contributes to social isolation in a multitude of ways such as urban renewal rapidly occurring and the built environments physical barriers. Social isolation is in relation to its urban surroundings and its conditions. Urban planning can influence inclusive cities and build modern urban environments that no longer contribute to social isolation.

Modern technologies are what that play an important role in smart city system. Implementing all these will only include people to the first.

Essential values are linked to the rise of the city – democracy, freedom, citizenship, equality. It was the city which lead to the invention of new political, economic, or technical ways which afterwards spread throughout the nations and the world. Cities are like melting pots, mixing and clashing, producing new concepts and ideas. Through architecture and city planning, basic ideals, order, and norms are being constructed thus implying it evolves out of disorder. To ensure that identity, social and political order would be preserved they often had to be bordered and, but to maintain their vigor they had to remain open to the world. Later on capitalism came hand in hand with state building and it destroyed the autonomy the city had enjoyed until that time, and moved it to the national level. The concept of urban citizenship was lost aswell and national

“Life is not just about the good things or just about the bad things. It is both. It all depends on where you focus your attention.” Similarly, this quote taken from author Anne-Marie Aguilar emphasizes this paper’s argument that the concept of a smart city has positive, but also negative impacts, such as generating class division and social inequality. However, because attention is directed towards the positive effects, this often leads one to overlook the primarily negative influence of this phenomenon. To start with, we define a smart city "as a city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures, coordinated and integrated using new digital technologies”, (Batty, 2012). A real world example of this would be India, where its “government has announced their ‘Smart Cities Mission’” ("2nd smart cities," 2015). Eventually this category of cities will lead to social inequality and exclusion, as companies, and cities focus on those who can pay to generate profits, while ignore the social benefit of the predominant lower class citizens of India. And finally, this exclusion, will add to the digital divide in India as a result of the unequal access to modern information, communication and technology, something a smart city revolves around. Furthermore a smart city’s focus is “to enable more efficient forms of urban management and service delivery”; however, this city leads to more than just that (Smith, 2015). Clearly, the model of a smart city holds factors which create

The creation of a framework that can be used to characterize the way in which developed a smart city and design initiatives that promote this growth opposes the view of some of the smart cities. The researchers simply see it as smart urban centres which make better use of information and communication technologies. Instead, the effort should focus on a broad and comprehensive approach to improve the efficiency of city operations, citizens’ quality of life and the economy. The axes which move the development framework and improving the smart city are the economy, people, governance, mobility, environment and living.

A city can be defined as ‘smart’ when investments in human and social capital and traditional and modern communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic development and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory governance.

The focus of this article is similar to a topic covered in CVEN 638. The topic is “Digital Cities”. In the class, the professor gave us the concept of digital cities. A digital city platform allow for heterogeneous 2D, 3D and 4D temporal data to be brought together in a comprehensive format. Here the 4D model means the time streamline will be added in the model visualization in order to improve the efficiency of scheduling, planning and cite communication. It’s

How will our daily lives in the city of tomorrow unfold? What disruptions will smart systems, technologies of automation and constant connectivity bring to our lifestyles? Which new economic models will emerge and what will be the role of the nuances of different geographical areas? What effect will this development of future cities have on our natural resources and the environment? These are ideas and questions that I wish to speculate on and explore.

Internet of things is the interconnection of embedded computing elements which can be uniquely identified and can be accessed from anywhere on this earth, anytime. The interconnection of these embedded devises is expected to bloom automation in almost all the fields. The future of internet aims at connecting all the physical things from bicycles to cars to planes, all of these things taking active participation in the exchange of information - about themselves and about their surroundings. Internet of things will give us access to all the information about a particular thing leading to different innovative services and increase the efficiency and productivity of the people and products. This paper studies the Internet of Things, the architecture of Internet of Things, the elements in Internet of Things and the related technologies, the applications, the current scenario and the future scope. Also, in details regarding the application of Internet of Things in the field of traffic management is reviewed in detail.

Urbanization is the defining phenomenon of the 21st century. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in cities, with 90 percent of urban growth taking place in the developing world. Increasing population growth in the existing urban areas and rapid urbanisation is leading to need for increased land area to accommodate the growing population. Rapid urbanization is turning villages are into towns, towns into big cities and cities in to metropolitan cities. This is leading to various emerging challenges that urban areas today have to address like inadequate housing, inefficient physical infrastructure like water, sanitation, transport, inadequate social infrastructure like education and health, spiralling construction costs and land prices.