The Intelligent City Archway
Topics: Urban Geography
, Digital Geographies
, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Anthropocene, digital citizenship, inclusiveness, intelligent city, learning, openness, resiliency, smartness, urban intelligence
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Friday
Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 75
Authors:
Stéphane Roche, Laval University
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Abstract
Smart City is more and more considered as the preeminent solution to answer the Anthropocene issues (global urbanization, climate changes, digital turn…) they are currently facing. Even if citizens engagement, open governance or sustainable development are usually associated with the discourse about Smart Cities, ethic risks like individual tracking, socio-spatial profiling, spatial justice, or inclusivity remain highly important to assess. This is especially the case in this Coronavirus pandemic era and, will certainly remain highly important in the post Covid cities. The time is coming to develop smart city projects with respect to the ways people live, consume, learn, travel, and interact in urban environments. In this conference, we proposed an innovative model of an intelligent city illustrated by an archway of seven stones. Five stones (smart, open, learning, inclusive and resilient) are structured as a foundation. Another stone (digital citizenship) helps us understand the multiple scales at which the intelligent city functions. Urban intelligence is the keystone, which is reinforced by these stones. Our model is locationally scalable. At the urban (local) scale, the components of the intelligent cities help inhabitants to capitalize on their hybrid physical and digital environment. At the global (earth) scale, the intelligent city is not an isolated transformation of urban areas. Instead we see the archways of the intelligent city and across a long line of municipal transformations from the industrial revolution to a city rooted into the networked society through the connections of digital infrastructures and social relations.
The Intelligent City Archway
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