Sustainable and community-centred development of smart cities and villages

Veronika Zavratnik (Author), Dan Podjed (Author), Jure Trilar (Author), Nina Hlebec (Author), Andrej Kos (Author), Emilija Stojmenova (Author)

Abstract

The article highlights the need to rethink and reconceptualise the accepted concepts of smart cities and villages by shifting the attention from technology and technological solutions and moving it towards understanding the significance of communities and sustainability. The conceptual framework combines four essential features—community, village, city and sustainability—and analyses the links and relationships between them. A new community-centred approach to development is suggested in order to emphasise that sustainable living cannot be achieved only through technological solutions. Instead, we suggest that to ensure social sustainability, appropriation, and effectiveness of new solutions in the long term, the process has to start, be adapted and led by people and their needs. In this light, the article analyses three dimensions of smart living—energy, mobility, waste—through the prism of rural–urban linkages and the role of ICT. Core principles and recommendations (calm technology, community size, identification of community leaders, surveillance and control issues, community building) for designers of ICT solutions and developmental projects in smart cities and villages are presented. These principles take into account people and communities and combine findings of engineering and social sciences, especially anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

Keywords

pametne vasi;pametna mesta;na skupnost osredotočeni razvoj;trajnostne skupnosti;mobilnost;energija;odpadki;IKT;kakovost življenja;smart villages;smart city;community-centred development (CCD);sustainable communities;mobility;energy;ICT;quality of life;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2020
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
UDC:	004:316
COBISS:	15026691
ISSN:	2071-1050
Views:	236
Downloads:	63
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	pametne vasi;pametna mesta;na skupnost osredotočeni razvoj;trajnostne skupnosti;mobilnost;energija;odpadki;IKT;kakovost življenja;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 1-17
Volume:	ǂiss. ǂ10
Issue:	3961
Chronology:	2020
DOI:	10.3390/su12103961
ID:	14075174