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| Title | Smart Counties: Technologies, Considerations, Characteristics, Challenges, Policies, And Theoretical Concerns |
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| ID_Doc | 50720 |
| Authors | Evangelopoulos E. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819130-9.00039-5 |
| Abstract | Counties are unique on the services they provide and on their relation to the land, the state, and neighboring municipalities. Smart technologies have the potential to transform cities, but the idiosyncrasies of counties pose some specific challenges in relation to geography, distance, remote populations, isolated communities, obligations to the state, and necessary relations and collaboration with neighboring municipalities. Some smart technologies, such as in utilities, will be best implemented when planned and organized by a regional organization that spans across cities and counties. Other technologies can be planned and implemented internally to serve the county residents, while some will require complicated agreements with neighboring municipalities and participating private entities and corporations. In all cases, the triad of major participants in this transformation are corporations, government, and citizens with all the inner power dynamics such coexistence creates. The smartification process spans a wide spectrum of county departments, and each one has the potential to address county challenges, be involved, and benefit accordingly. When implementing smart technologies, however, it is important to keep in mind general considerations of economy, society, environment, quality of life, and “place” as general guides in policy creation and understand that the goal is not to simply implement technology and acquire the label “smart city” and “smart county,” but instead, to benefit the community, improve quality of life, and create “place.” This presents a juxtaposition of instrumental versus value-based approaches to smart technologies, which is a major philosophical issue at the base of the theoretical implications of smartification. An instrumental approach has the potential of deducing inadequate conclusions by focusing solely on sensor inputs and ignoring the multilayered experience of the human milieu, while a value-based approach will always keep in mind the values of the community to guide policymaking. Finally, it is paramount not to forget that Smart Growth is an entirely different phenomenon than smart technologies, which, contrary to smart growth, have limitations in creating architectural and urban spaces. Both approach quality of life from a very different perspective, can both contribute positive results, but smart technologies lack the ability to create a foundation of good urbanism. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Author Keywords | Instrumental rationality; Instrumental urbanism; Smart cities; Smart cities and smart growth; Smart cities theory; Smart county; Smart county challenges; Smart county concerns; Smart county departments; Smart county policies; Smart technologies; Smart technology considerations; Value-based urbanism |
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