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Title Smart City Development Underway: Lessons From Shin-Sapporo'S Smart City
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Authors Holroyd C.
Year 2025
Published Smart Cities and Japan's Energy Transition: Past, Present, and Future
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003471448-11
Abstract Cities collectively are responsible for the consumption of most of the world's energy and the production of most of its waste and greenhouse gas emissions; developing ways to make cities more environmentally sound is of vital importance. Cities have been working on how to best use information and communications technologies and improved access to data to deal with urban problems, particularly those associated with the environment. National and municipal governments and corporations set up pilot projects (called smart cities, future, eco or low-carbon cities) to test out the feasibility of using information and communications technologies to improve energy and transportation infrastructure and create more environmentally friendly, safe, and enjoyable homes and communities. This chapter introduces one Japanese smart city. The Shin-Sapporo Smart City project's focus is on energy savings and disaster resilience and is built on the Hitachi Group's natural gas cogeneration system and Fuji Denki's artificial intelligence-driven Community Energy Management System. While small in scale and localised, the Shin-Sapporo project is an example of one of many important Japanese efforts to address environmental and disaster management at the city level. These local efforts, while attracting less attention than large-scale environmental megaprojects, will likely play a vital role in Japan's environmental adaptations. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Maciej M. Sokolowski and Fumio Shimpo. All rights reserved.
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