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e. A smart city is an urban area that uses digital technology to collect data and to operate/provide services. [1][2] Data can be collected from citizens, devices, buildings, cameras. Applications include traffic and transportation systems, [3] power plants, utilities, urban forestry, [4] water supply networks, waste disposal, criminal ...
Description. Smart Cities Mission envisions developing areas within selected cities in the country as model areas based on an area development plan, which is expected to have a rub-off effect on other parts of the city and nearby cities and towns. [5] Cities will be selected based on the Smart Cities challenge, where cities will compete in a ...
As of 2016-2017, the phrase “Smart Green and Resilient” has been adopted by Hong Kong’s Planning Department and Development Bureau to describe the 2030+ planning vision for the city. [4] [6] Reference to Smart Green Resilient is also made in relation to the New Territories North development in Hong Kong, where the approach is intended to ...
A zero-carbon city is a goal of city planners [1] that can be variously defined. In a narrower sense of energy production and use, a zero-carbon city is one that generates as much or more carbon-free sustainable energy as it uses. [2][3] In a broader sense of managing greenhouse gas emissions, a zero-carbon city is one that reduces its carbon ...
The following is a list of cities that have implemented smart city initiatives, organized by continent and then alphabetically.. The Institute for Management Development and Singapore University of Technology and Design rank cities in the Smart City Index according to technological, economic and human criteria (e.g., the quality of life, the environment and inclusiveness).
Smart growth. Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. It also advocates compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, and mixed-use development with a range of housing choices.
Smart environments are an extension of pervasive computing. According to Mark Weiser, pervasive computing promotes the idea of a world that is connected to sensors and computers. [1] These sensors and computers are integrated with everyday objects in peoples' lives and are connected through networks. [1]
Cognitive city. Cognitive city is a term which expands the concept of the smart city [1] with the aspect of cognition or refers to a virtual environment where goal-driven communities gather to share knowledge. A physical cognitive city differs from conventional cities and smart cities in the fact that it is steadily learning through constant ...