Smart City Implementation

Creating Economic and Public Value in Innovative Urban Systems

verfasst von: Renata Paola Dameri

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : Progress in IS

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In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world. After defining the concept it then elaborates on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as an enabler for smart cities, and the role of ICT in the interplay with smart mobility. A separate chapter develops the concept of an urban smart dashboard for stakeholders to measure performance as well as the economic and public value. It offers examples of smart cities around the globe, and two detailed case studies on Genoa and Amsterdam exemplify the book’s theoretical and empirical findings, helping readers understand and evaluate the effectiveness and capability of new smart city programs.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Smart City Definition, Goals and Performance

Abstract

During the latest ten years, several cities all over the world have been starting to develop their own smart strategy, aiming at improving the quality of life of citizens and reducing environmental footprint. However, smart city are a jeopardized phenomenon, and smart cities show heterogeneous profiles. Moreover, also the scientific researches lack of a shared definition of smart city; and smart city and digital city are often confused each other owing the large use of ICT in both of them. In this chapter, the smart city concept is analyzed, considering two main aspects: the strategic vision of a smart city and its benefits. A smart city strategic vision is of paramount importance for effectively driving the local policies in implementing smart initiatives pursuing shared goals. Smart city benefits are often declared, but not measured; to better define smart city performance is indispensable for realizing better outcome for citizens and other stakeholders.

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Chapter 2. The Conceptual Idea of Smart City: University, Industry, and Government Vision

Abstract

To implement a smart city is a complex task, involving different aspects and several actors. During the latest years, many cities all over the world have been started to design and implement their own smart strategy, involving a large set of different players. As a smart city is especially based on the use of innovative technologies in the urban area, three main actors are involved in its implementation: local government, research institutions and technology vendors. Local government drive the smart city planning and rule the general aspects; research institution offer their competences in studying and experimenting innovative technologies and solutions; vendors produce and sell technological platforms and infrastructures for the smart city realization. A linking role is played by consulting companies, offering direction services in complex projects. This chapter analyzes the most cited scientific and professional publications to verify the different point of view issued by these different smart city actors and compare their smart city definition.

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Chapter 3. Using ICT in Smart City

Abstract

A smart city is an innovative urban strategy, using high technologies to reduce the city environmental footprint and to improve the citizens’ quality of life. Smart cities use ICT to implement their smart strategies and to collect and deliver information at different users. For this reason, a smart city is somewhat joining different aspects of living in the urban area and link several concepts such as wired city, virtual city, intelligent city, information city, digital city, knowledge city, and so on. This deep use of ICT enhances the role of the smart city in collecting and delivering data, information and knowledge, affecting the daily life and improving its quality thanks to e_services, a deeper involvement of citizens in the city governance and a proactive role thanks to e_democracy and e_participation. In this chapter, the link between smart city and ICT is explored, aiming at outlining the pervasive role of ICT in smart projects, but also at highlighting smart projects using other technologies or no technologies at all and simply based on the citizens’ behaviours or governance style.

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Chapter 4. Urban Smart Dashboard. Measuring Smart City Performance

Abstract

A smart city is an urban strategy using technology and promising to improve the quality of life for citizens. However, few practices are known, where cities really measure the impact of smart initiatives on the daily life of their inhabitants. Independent institutions and research centres issue smart city rankings, based on smart projects implementation or technological infrastructures present in cities, but no instruments are applied to really verify if and how much a smart program affects people living in city. This chapter suggests how to develop a Smart City Performance Dashboard to measure and evaluate the capacity of a smart strategy to impact on the quality of life. Based on the most known urban indicators worldwide, this work defines a five-step path for implementing a standard but city-tailored dashboard to both support smart city investments and to evaluate their performance.

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Chapter 5. ICT Intensity in Smart Mobility Initiatives

Abstract

Mobility is a critical factor for better living in cities. Transport is crucial for moving from home to work and assess to urban services. However, transport is also one of the most problematic aspects of the urbanization: the enlargement of city dimensions produces, traffic congestion, difficulties in delivering public transport services all over the metropolitan area and an increasing of pollution. Smart Mobility is a subset of smart initiatives, especially aiming at planning intelligent transport solutions, concurrently responding to all the smart goals that are to reduce pollution, to increase the quality of public services and to better connect city neighbourhoods thanks to mobility data collection, processing and delivering. This chapter defines a general framework for analysing characteristics, goals and benefits pursue by smart mobility projects, investigating also the role of ICT in implementing these projects. Several case studies validate the theoretical framework.

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Chapter 6. Smart City and Digital City Implementation: Two Best Practices in Europe

Abstract

Smart city is an emerging topic, showing a concurrent development regarding both the theoretical research and the empirical implementation. Meanwhile academic researchers have been studying the theoretical aspects of a smart city, suggesting definition and models for their understanding, largest cities all over the world have been starting to realize smart projects for realizing a smarter living in urban areas. As the smart city movement is spontaneous, each city pursue its own goals prioritizing smart initiatives of different nature: sometimes the use of ICT prevails, some others green energy production is at the core of smart programs; and so on. This chapter studies two smart city best practices in Europe: Amsterdam and Genoa. Amsterdam has been the first city all over the world implementing a smart city strategy addressing not only one dimension of living, but with a comprehensive scope. Genoa won the highest number of European calls funding smart city projects and the Genoa Smart City Association is aiming to compose an integrated smart projects portfolio addressing all the aspects of the metropolitan life. Both these cities are interesting case studies for supporting further implementation in smart cities.

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Erratum to: Smart City Implementation

Renata Paola Dameri

Titel: Smart City Implementation
verfasst von: Renata Paola Dameri
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-45766-6
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-45765-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45766-6