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| Title | The Contributions Of Smart City Initiatives To Urban Resilience: The Case Of San Francisco, California, United States |
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| ID_Doc | 55195 |
| Authors | Grovert A.; Sambo C.; Meier B.; Ko Y. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Urban Book Series |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95037-8_13 |
| Abstract | This chapter evaluates five smart technology projects that have been implemented in the City of San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area in California to assess the extent to which the projects support urban resilience. Increasingly, cities worldwide are transforming their systems through smart technologies. Emerging smart technologies are supporting efforts to reduce emissions, address social inequities, and build economic security. San Francisco leads US cities in its efforts adopt smart technologies for improving urban resilience. Major risks that immediately threaten San Francisco include earthquakes, fire, tsunamis, flooding, extreme heat, droughts, terrorism, cyber terrorism, and communicable diseases. As a result, San Francisco’s private and public sectors are funding smart technology in transportation, waste management, social, government, and economic realms to improve long-term resilience and sustainability. This study selected five key smart technology projects that seek to improve urban resilience including microgrids, connected and automated vehicles, earthquake alerts, digital platforms, and air quality monitoring. We evaluated these projects against fourteen principles for resilience developed by Sharifi and Yamagata (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 60:1654–1677, 2016). This chapter also examines San Francisco’s contribution to climate resilience planning and highlights the importance of innovation through collaboration with startups. Results will contribute to a smart city resilience assessment toolkit used to investigate actual and potential contributions of smart city initiatives to resilience in the United States. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
| Author Keywords | Air quality; Climate action; Energy; Smart technology; Transportation; Urban resilience |
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