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Advances and New Approaches in Smart Sustainable Urbanism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 8358

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mariacristina Roscia

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Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, University of Bergamo, viale Marconi, 5, 24044 Dalmine, Italy
Interests: smart home and building automation; smart city; energy; sustainable and intelligent transport; sustainable efficiency for the EU
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Dr. Simon Elias Bibri

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Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: sustainable development goals; digital transformation for sustainability; urban planning and design; smart urban governance; big data science and analytics; the Internet of Things (IoT); urban computing and intelligence; urban artificial intelligence (AI); data-driven smart sustainable cities; sustainable cities; smart cities; integrated renewable energy and smart energy technologies; smart solutions for environmental sustainability; environmental innovations and sustainability transitions; science, technology, and innovation studies; circular economy and business model innovation for sustainability; technological and sectoral innovation systems; urban, regional, and environmental policy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Urbanization is one of the greatest challenges facing cities of the future. The increased pressure on cities leads to a stronger need to build sustainable cities that last. Designing sustainable cities of the future, educated by the lessons of the past and anticipating the challenges of the future, entails articulating a multi-scalar vision and following key principles—energy, ecology, livability, infrastructure, waste, water, mobility, economy, and culture—while responding to macro-shifts along the way.

Transformative processes within sustainable cities have been in focus for quite some time now. However, the motivation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) 11 has increased the need to understand and manage sustainable cities in new and innovative ways based on advanced ICT, especially the IoT and big data analytics. Indeed, advanced ICT is regarded as a means to restore and protect the environment, support socio-economic development, optimize resource efficiency, advance knowledge, improve infrastructure, and retrofit buildings based on sustainable design principles. This relates to the multifaceted potential of smart cities with respect to the role of big data technologies and their novel applications in strategic sustainable development. The real challenge for the future lies in genuinely moving past the assumption that there are only two contrasting, mutually exclusive realities—either sustainable cities or smart cities.

With the recent technological and practical advances in the field of sustainable urbanism, it has become necessary to evaluate how and to what extent these advances could be leveraged to develop new strategies and enhancing existing strategies for the design of sustainable cities. Promoting new planning practices for sustainable development supported by applied data-driven solutions will allow for greater development and implementation of more effective approaches to reach the status of sustainable cities. Sustainable urbanism is now seen as one of the keys to the quest for a sustainable world. The IoT and big data technologies are increasingly seen as the driving factors for achieving urban sustainability from a smart perspective, offering a range of new approaches based on innovative research. In fact, the new approaches to urban development planning are linked to a form of data-based urbanism that provides solutions for advancing urban sustainability.

This multidisciplinary Special Issue is intended for a wide audience of readers, including researchers, academics, practitioners, and policymakers, and all the inhabitants of sustainable cities of the future—smart sustainable cities. It serves as a platform for addressing, discussing, and advancing the theoretical and practical foundations of sustainable urbanism in light of the recent advances brought on by the paradigm of big data computing and its technological applications. The intent of this Special Issue is to demonstrate how sustainable cities as an approach to sustainable development combines various scientific and technological trends and academic disciplines for the primary purpose to advance the goals of sustainability. In the long run, this form of knowledge can facilitate the adaptation of the applied data-driven technology solutions to the different areas of sustainability, as well as maximize the outcome of transformative changes towards sustainability.

Dr. Mariacristina Roscia
Dr. Simon Elias Bibri
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable urbanism
  • smart urbanism
  • sustainable cities
  • smart cities
  • urban sustainability
  • urban development planning
  • urban technology
  • data-driven solutions

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Developing a Data Driven Strategy and Guideline to Increase Per Capita Open Space and Relative Accessibility in Chittagong City
by Maharina Jafrin
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 9828; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14169828 - 09 Aug 2022
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The population density in Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) area was 242.28 per square meter in 2019, and Bulmer suggests that, due to the high birth rate in Asia, cities such as Chittagong can be considered high density. Contextually, this ‘high-density’ element is a [...] Read more.
The population density in Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) area was 242.28 per square meter in 2019, and Bulmer suggests that, due to the high birth rate in Asia, cities such as Chittagong can be considered high density. Contextually, this ‘high-density’ element is a determining factor that potentially allows one to address the city’s open space standard, which “should compensate and complement the physical and social context of the [urban] surrounding environment”. The research in this paper is focused on the urban setting, defined in the CCC area of 168 square kilometres. The literature review and case study analysis found that per capita open space in Chittagong is far lower than the WHO recommendation (nine square meters per person). Additionally, the UN stated that “47% of [the city’s] population live within 400 m walking distance to open public spaces”, whereas, according to the previous study, in Chittagong City only 19% of residents live within this distance. Observing these issues, the aim of the paper is to develop an innovative way to obtain per capita open space in Chittagong city. To achieve the aim, the researchers analysed the data from surveys and interviews conducted by using SPSS and NVivo. These tools produced data that were, for example, used to develop themes of open space in Chittagong. This investigation and analysis of material allowed for the generation of strategies and planning recommendations to improve the open space situation in the city. Beyond these strategies, the research team produced new insights to promote sustainability in this area. Full article
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Smart Sustainable Cities—Case Study Südwestfalen Germany
by Mona Treude, Ralf Schüle and Hans Haake
Sustainability 2022, 14(10), 5957; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14105957 - 13 May 2022
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The transformation of society into sustainable structures is one of the most important tasks for the future. That cities have a decisive role to play in this transformation process has been known at least since Rio 1992. They have enormous pressure to act [...] Read more.
The transformation of society into sustainable structures is one of the most important tasks for the future. That cities have a decisive role to play in this transformation process has been known at least since Rio 1992. They have enormous pressure to act for change: They are at the same time problem and solution for sustainable development. Currently there is another significant development for cities—the need and external pressure to be “smart”, often understood merely as applying the latest digital technologies to become more efficient. The Smart City and the Sustainable City can work hand in hand or hinder each other, depending on their interpretation. In this study we focus on five Smart Cities in Western Germany to get a closer look at how they shape their processes and whether the underlying motivation is to become a technologically Smart City, focus on sustainable development, or both. With the help of the innovation biography research method, we show how cities shape the dynamic process towards forming a Smart City, the role sustainable urban development plays in the process, who the actors involved are, and the important role improved knowledge management then plays for the diffusion of the Smart Sustainable City within the region. It becomes clear how important communication and narratives are both in the process within each City towards forming a Smart Sustainable City and for the first step of diffusion, the adaptation of other cities within the region. This study is intended to serve both as a basis for cross-regional consideration and dialogue for the transfer of successful processes. Full article
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The Scandinavian Third Way as a Proposal for Sustainable Smart City Development—A Case Study of Aarhus City
by Sabina Baraniewicz-Kotasińska
Sustainability 2022, 14(6), 3495; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14063495 - 16 Mar 2022
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The practical implementation of the goals of smart sustainable cities has different forms. This paper explores an example of the Danish smart city Aarhus, through which the so-called ‘Scandinavian third way’ of smart city development is being proposed. The foundations of the ‘third [...] Read more.
The practical implementation of the goals of smart sustainable cities has different forms. This paper explores an example of the Danish smart city Aarhus, through which the so-called ‘Scandinavian third way’ of smart city development is being proposed. The foundations of the ‘third way’ are directly derived from the Scandinavian tradition of cooperation; it is supposed to be an alternative to the more commercial American model and the more centrally-controlled Asian tradition. The paper aims to identify how the Scandinavian collaborative model has influenced the process of developing the smart city Aarhus, to analyse the proposed ‘Scandinavian third way’ of smart city development, and finally to assess its applicability in other urban centres. To achieve these goals, the method of literature analysis and a case study along with qualitative analysis of existing data and individual in-depth interviews with decision makers and observers of political life were applied. As the results show, the Scandinavian tradition of governance and political decision-making present in Denmark is not without significance for the functioning form of the smart city of Aarhus. Its foundations have been adopted by the Aarhus municipality in the implementation of its smart city activities, creating a unique modern city management model. Full article
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