Creating Smarter Cities, Journal of Urban Technology, 2011 vol. 18 (2)
Richard Hanley, New York City University
The R&TD Roadmap:
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Contents
Sam Allwinkle and Peter Cruickshank
Overview of the Focus Issue on the North Sea
Region’s SmartCities Project
Mark Deakin, Patrizia Lombardi, and Ian Cooper
The IntelCities Community of Practice: The
Capacity-Building, Co-Design, Evaluation, and
Monitoring of E-Government Services
George Kuk and Marjin Janssen
The Business Models and Information
Architectures of Smart Cities
Loet Leydesdorff and Mark Deakin
The Triple-Helix Model of Smart Cities: A Neo-
Evolutionary Perspective
Andrea Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo, and Peter
Nijkamp
Smart Cities in Europe
Peter Cruickshank
SCRAN: The Network
Mapping the transition from intelligent to smart cities, Special Issue of Int. Journal of Intelligent Buildings, 2011, vol. 3 (3)
Mark [email protected]
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Intelligent or smart cities• For many of us there is no difference between
intelligent and smart cities.
• Many academics and leading consultancies are of the
same opinion and limit their terms of reference to
promotion and administration of services.
• For the authors of the papers brought together in this
special issue, however, this is not the case.
• They believe there is a critical difference between
them and perhaps more importantly, what they
mean……….
Shifting the point of emphasis
• Seen in this light the transition from intelligent to
smart cities these papers capture, might be best
represented as a serious attempt to shift the
point of emphasis away from the promotion
and administration of services and towards matters
concerning the governance of their provision and
application i.e. use!
Intelligent v smart cities
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(promotion & administration)
e-services
Business-led logic
Knowledge-transfer
Capacity-building
Learning
Platforms
Information systems
Data-bases
intelligent
smart
Personal & corporate
Civic and social
augmentation,
massing and scaling
Economics of cost-efficiencies
Environmental
and cultural
values
associated with
the quality of
life
(Provision and application)
Sustainable development
e-gov services
Democratic governance
Digital-inclusion
Innovation and creativity
Informatics of community-led
ventures
Social intelligence
Cybernetics of social capital
Embedded intelligence
What this means
• This way it becomes possible to do the following:
– bring existing accounts of the transition down from the high-level university and industrial accounts of intelligent cities and on to a platform where it becomes possible to incorporate government into the equation as the ‘other’ major stakeholder…
– use the social intelligence of this system as the means to break with the marketing, promotion and administration of the past…..
– set the stage for the smart city agenda to be about thegovernance of the environmental and cultural issues surrounding the quality of life…
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What this means
– draw upon the socially-inclusive and participatory nature of the intelligence underlying this innovation system as the creative means to support an integration of quality of life issues into the smart cities agenda…
– allow smart cities to begin delivering on their sustainable development commitments as part of a community-led transition.
