Book description
Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities explores how to develop emergent smart cities that are rooted in humane, innovative and sustainable values (CHIS). The book considers the move from technocratic and idealized smart metropole to humane cities as a product of fundamental demographic changes, the development of a usage-based rather than an ownership economy, the novel implications of digitalization, decentralization and decarbonization, and Internet-enabled changes in public opinion towards democratization and participation. The book's authors explore seven dimensions and characteristics of humane, sustainable and innovative cities in the developing world: the economy, people, the place, energy and the environment, mobility, social inclusion and governance.
Additional sections the operationalization of the CHIS concept into formal planning, policy implementation, and impact assessment considerations. Final discussions center on building a roadmap for planners seeking to design development policies conducive to human values and long-term social viability.
- Provides an axiological framework for the development of humane, innovative and sustainable cities
- Examines how that framework can be operationalized into formal planning, policy implementation and impact assessment
- Explores humane, innovative and sustainable cities in terms of seven dimensions, including the economy, people, the place, energy and the environment, mobility, social inclusion and governance
- Explores proven paths for promoting effective community engagement in developing humane cities
- Provides a practical roadmap to design development policies conducive to human values and long-term social viability
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. The concept of more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities
- Chapter 2. Historical overview: cities from medieval to modern times—what went wrong
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Chapter 3. From smart cities to more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities: the world in transformation
- Abstract
- Smart cities
- Cameras and sensors
- Internet of things
- Artificial intelligence and its derivatives machine learning and deep learning
- Big data
- Blockchain
- Identification of a person and privacy
- Smart for whom?!?
- Technology is charming
- Tech companies are TOO powerful
- “Enclosure” of public spaces and public data is happening already
- Social and generational changes
- Digitalization
- Decentralization
- Decarbonization and the UN’s sustainable development goals
- The perfect storm for the car industry
- Who needs a car?
- Electric cars, autonomous cars, and shared cars
- The new cigarette industry?
- Toward more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities
- Enlarge sidewalks
- Speed limit in town up to 40–60 km/hour
- Reclaim useless streets and corners
- Establish a policy of no free parking anywhere
- Secluded bike lanes and bike transport as a system
- Maintain existing parks and create a few new gardens and plazas
- Conclusion
- References
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Chapter 4. The eight dimensions of a more Humane and Sustainable Smart City
- Abstract
- Introduction—the Humane and Sustainable Smart City characterization
- The Sustainable Economic Development dimension
- The People dimension
- The Quality of Life dimension
- The Historic, Artistic, and Cultural Heritage, and Tourism dimension
- The Environment dimension
- The Social Inclusion dimension
- The Mobility of People dimension
- The Governance dimension (horizontal)
- References
- Chapter 5. Looking for striking Humane and Sustainable Smart City characteristics in existing cities
- Chapter 6. Where and how to start in your city
- Chapter 7. The future: the need for more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities postpandemic 2020/21
- Chapter 8. Conclusions and a call to action
- Index
Product information
- Title: Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2020
- Publisher(s): Academic Press
- ISBN: 9780128191873
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