How Smart Is Your City?: Technological Innovation, Ethics and Inclusiveness 9783030569259, 9783030569266

This book focuses on the potential benefits that the so-called smart technologies have been bringing to the urban realit

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How Smart Is Your City?: Technological Innovation, Ethics and Inclusiveness
 9783030569259, 9783030569266

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
The Smart City: The Exponent of a Civilization Transition in the Context of a Global Crisis
1 Cities: The Dynamos of Innovation and Change
2 The Smart City: The Exponent of a Civilization Transition
3 The Context of a Crisis
References
The Right to the City: The Right to Live with Dignity
1 The Citizen—A Social, Political and Legal Construct
1.1 The Aristotelian Concept
1.2 Embodying Equalitarian Ideals
1.3 The Contemporary Perspective
2 The Right to the City
3 Vulnerable Citizens
3.1 The Universal Design Framework
3.2 The Case of Children
4 Conclusions
References
There’s More Than One Kind of “Smart”: Big Data, Affect and Empathy in the City
References
Acting Smart: An Experimental Approach to Architecture, Performance Art and ICT
1 Hypothesis, Context and Application
2 Qualitative Research, Architecture and Embodiment
3 Methodology, Research Goals and Experimental Findings
4 Conclusion
References
Leveraging the Use of Digital Technologies to Activate Public Areas and Foster Creativity
1 Public Meeting Spaces and Human Behaviors
1.1 Heterogeneity of Space
1.2 Heterogeneity of Use (Physical and Digital Dimension)
1.3 Human Factor: Interactions Between People
2 Role of Digital Technology
3 Fostering a Merge Between the Two Layers—Physical and Digital
4 Conclusions
Bibliography
Algorithmic Cities: A Dystopic or Utopic Future?
1 Introduction
2 An Algorithmic Urban Future
3 City as a Platform
4 Algorithmic City Solutions for and by Citizens
5 A Dystopic or Utopic Urban Future
6 Conclusions and Future Challenges
References
Robots in Smart Cities
1 Introduction
2 Smart Cities
2.1 Opportunities and Challenges
2.2 Robots in Smart Cities
3 SciRoc, the European Robotics League, and Smart Cities
3.1 Motivation and Background
3.2 The First SciRoc Robots in Smart Cities Challenge
3.3 SciRoc ‘Robots in Smart Cities’ as Experienced by Citizens
3.4 Survey of Public Perceptions of Robots in Smart Cities
4 Conclusion
References
Technological Approaches to Cultural Heritage—Lessons from ROCK
1 Technology for Data Gathering for Better Top-Down Decision Making on Culture and Cultural Heritage
1.1 LBASense Crowd Monitoring
1.2 Museum Cards
1.3 Neuroanalytic Cameras
1.4 GPS for Accessibility
2 Technology as a Platform for Content on Culture and Cultural Heritage
2.1 Interpretive Centre Marvila and Beato
2.2 Bibliogamers
2.3 WunderBO
2.4 3D City
Digital Social Markets: Exploring the Opportunities and Impacts of Gamification and Reward Mechanisms in Citizen Engagement and Smart City Services
1 The Challenge
2 What is a Digital Social Market?
3 What Value does a DSM Bring?
4 Strategic Approach
4.1 Designing with Complexity
5 The Story of Three Cities
5.1 Milan
5.2 London
5.3 Lisbon
6 Conclusion
6.1 Unintended Consequences
6.2 Cultural Versus Infrastructural
6.3 Balancing Power
6.4 Building on the DSM
References
Stockholm—Smart City
1 Introduction
1.1 What Do We Consider a Smart City?
1.2 Plan for a Smart and Connected City
1.3 Developed in Cooperation
2 What Makes Stockholm a Super Smart City?
2.1 Extensive Fibre Network
2.2 The Stokab Model was based on two Important Insights
3 E-services
4 Examples of E-services
4.1 Preschool Portal
4.2 Residents’ Parking Permits
4.3 Report Problems in Traffic and Outdoor Environment
4.4 Radon Reading Search
4.5 Heat Pump Licence Applications
4.6 Care Diary
4.7 Apply for a School
4.8 Apply for a Building Permit
5 Open Data
5.1 Culture and Archive Data
5.2 Population Data
5.3 Traffic and Parking Data
5.4 Environmental Data
5.5 Activities and Satisfaction Surveys
5.6 Geodata
6 The Stockholm Open Award
7 Innovative Solutions and International Smart City Cooperation
8 Hammarby Sjöstad
8.1 Hammarby Sjöstad—A Neighbourhood with Integrated Environmental Solutions
8.2 Stockholm Royal Seaport
8.3 The GrowSmarter Project, Smart Refurbishment
9 Conclusions
Creating a Smart Ecosystem in Lisbon
1 Introduction
2 Lisbon’s Ecosystem
2.1 Web Summit
2.2 Hub Creativo do Beato
2.3 Smart Open Lisboa
2.4 Lisbon’s Fablab
2.5 Lisboa Robotics
2.6 Free Internet of Things (IoT) Network
3 The Challenges
4 Defining a Strategy
4.1 Governance and Structure
5 The Pillars of a Strong Smart City Ecosystem
5.1 Lisbon’s Intelligent Management Platform (PGIL)
5.2 Operational Integrated Center
5.3 Lisbon’s Urban Data Laboratory
5.4 Open Data
5.5 Data Workshop
5.6 Na Minha Rua—Events Reporting
5.7 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
6 Showcases
6.1 Sharing Cities
6.2 Noise Control
6.3 LxAnalyticsHub
6.4 Urban CoCreation Data Lab
6.5 Urban Waste Sensoring
6.6 Awards
Being Smart in the Context of a Crisis: Ethical Paradoxes
1 Human Rights: The Question of Human Dignity
2 Human Dignity and Crisis Context
2.1 ICT’s Technological Roadmap in the Covid-19 Crisis
3 Conclusion
References

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