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Title	Smart City Planning From An Evolutionary Perspective
ID_Doc	50413
Authors	Komninos, N; Kakderi, C; Panori, A; Tsarchopoulos, P
Year	2019
Published	JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY, 26, 2
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2018.1485368
Abstract	In the theory of urban development, the evolutionary perspective is becoming dominant. Cities are understood as complex systems shaped by bottom-up processes with outcomes that are hard to foresee and plan for. This perspective is strengthened by the current turn towards smart cities and the intensive use of digital technologies to optimize urban ecosystems. This paper extends the evolutionary thinking and emerging dynamics of cities to smart city planning. It is based on recent efforts for a smart city strategy in Thessaloniki that enhances the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the city. Taking advantage of opportunities offered by the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge, the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, the World Bank, and the EU Horizon 2020 Program, Thessaloniki shaped a strategy for an inclusive economy, resilient infrastructure, participatory governance, and open data. This process, however, does not have the usual features of planning. It reveals the complex dimension of smart city planning as a synthesis of technologies, user engagement, and windows of opportunity, which are fuzzy at the start of the planning process. The evolutionary features of cities, which until now were ascribed to the working of markets, are now shaping the institutional aspects of planning for smart cities.
Author Keywords	Smart cities; intelligent cities; smart city planning; evolutionary planning; participatory governance; open data; resilience

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