Smart City Planning and Environmental Aspects: Lessons from Seven Cities

DOI

10.2991/ict4s-16.2016.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Smart sustainable city, City Management, Smart city services, Sustainability, Environment

Abstract

In this paper, we explore some promising Smart Sustainable City initiatives and solutions in Amsterdam, Barce-lona, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai and Vienna, with a focus on environmental aspects. These initiatives and solutions include implementations of smart sustainable city technologies, and mu-nicipal support for such implementations. We analyse these initi-atives and solutions with respect to their potential for replacing or intensifying products/spaces/travels/transports, leaning pro-cesses and activities, or informing city inhabitants or visitors of better choices from an environmental perspective, as well as their connection with a number of smart city challenges. We also dis-cuss some of the problems we have found in these initiatives and solutions, especially regarding risks of rebound effects. Finally, we formulate three lessons for smart sustainable city implemen-tation.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tina Ringenson
AU  - Mattias Höjer
PY  - 2016/08
DA  - 2016/08
TI  - Smart City Planning and Environmental Aspects: Lessons from Seven Cities
BT  - Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 159
EP  - 166
SN  - 2352-538X
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DO  - 10.2991/ict4s-16.2016.19
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