what exactly a smart city is?
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AthensCoCreation Project PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES Department of Communication, Media and Culture MA in Cultural ManagementTRANSCRIPT
What exactly a smart city is?
There is a lack of clarity and confusion about what a smart city really is.
Is a smart city really a novelty?
Probably not…
Since any settlement/community in the history of human kind having met
real needs in people’s lives could certainly claim the title in its essence.
• smart economy
• smart mobility
• smart environment
• smart people
• smart living
• smart governance
A smart city is actually a regional platform which expands
based on six main dimensions:
Smart Cities Wheel (Boyd Cohen)
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/what-exactly-is-a-smart-city
Goals of a smart city
• Improving the efficiency of city operations
• Improving the quality of life of its citizens
• Growing the local economy
Key Concepts
Inclusiveness
Openness
Involvement
Creativity
Communication and Networking
Efficiency
Usability
Sustainability
Technology
Examples
Smart San Francisco
Smart Environment/Green Energy
• powered with 41% renewable energy
• expansion of the recycling system
Transportation
• electric vehicle charging with 110 public stations
• apps for citizens to navigate public transportation
http://freshome.com/2013/02/07/10-most-impressive-smart-cities-on-earth/
http://www.sfenvironment.org/
Smart New York
Smart Education/ People
• innovative ecosystem connecting school needs with
solution developpers
Smart Governance/ Open Data
• all NYC agencies share information
http://gettingsmart.com/cms/blog/2012/11/smart-cities-new-york/
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2013-02-22/new_york_city_calls_in_the_code_corps.html
Smart Amsterdam
Smart Economy
•Partnership with big-time companies (Phillips, Cisco, IBM
and dozens of smaller companies) to go green.
Smart Environment/ Green Urban Planning
‘Climate Street’:
• nonpolluting electric trucks, city bus stops, billboards, and lights powered with
solar energy
•roofs of households and businesses retrofitted with energy efficient insulation cutting down energy costs
http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/
Smart Amsterdam
Smart living
Thousands of homes upgraded with automatically dimming light switches,
automatic shutting off appliances, smart meters connected to cell phones
for realtime analysis, and ultra low energy LED lights are in use in
thousands of applications.
Smart Hong Kong
Smart Living
Leader in the use and adoption of smart cards, used by millions of residents for
services like public transit, library access, building access, shopping, and car parks .
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679127/the-top-10-smart-cities-on-the-planet
TheSmartCityTeam:
Thank you for your attention!
T. Androutsopoulos http://www.linkedin.com/pub/theodore-androutsopoulos/16/469/67
K. Kentrouhttps://twitter.com/kentrouk
El. Michalakihttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/eleni-michalaki/23/644/75a
PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
Department of Communication, Media and CultureMA in Cultural Management
AthensCoCreation Project
Athens, April 2013