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| Title | The Leading Data-Driven Smart Cities In Europe: Their Applied Solutions And Best Practices For Sustainable Development |
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| ID_Doc | 56004 |
| Authors | Bibri S.E. |
| Year | 2020 |
| Published | Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41746-8_9 |
| Abstract | The big data revolution is heralding an era where instrumentation, datafication, and computation are increasingly pervading the very fabric of cities. Big data technologies have become essential to the functioning of cities. Consequently, urban processes and practices are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism that is the key mode of production for smart cities. Such form is increasingly being directed towards tackling the challenges of sustainability in the light of the escalating urbanization trend. This chapter investigates how the emerging data-driven smart city is being practiced and justified in terms of the development and implementation of its innovative applied solutions for sustainability. To illuminate this urban phenomenon, a descriptive case study is adopted as a qualitative research methodology to investigate London and Barcelona as the leading data-driven smart cities in Europe. This study shows that these cities have a high level of the development of applied data-driven technologies, but they slightly differ in the level of the implementation of such technologies in different city systems and domains with respect to the different areas of sustainability. They also moderately differ in the degree of their readiness as to the availability and development level of the competences and infrastructure needed to generate, transmit. process, and analyze large masses of data to extract useful knowledge for enhanced decision making and deep insights pertaining to a wide variety of practical uses and applications in relation to sustainability. London takes the lead as regards the ICT infrastructure and data sources, and Barcelona has the best practices in the data-oriented competences, notably horizontal information platform, operations center, dashboards, training programs and educational institutes, innovation lab, research center, and strategic planning office. This research enhances the scholarly community’s current understanding of the new phenomenon of the data-driven city as to the untapped synergic potential of the integration of smart urbanism and sustainable urbanism as a set of practices and strategies for advancing sustainability in the light of the emerging paradigm of big data computing. No previous work has, to the best of our knowledge, explored and highlighted the link between the data-driven smart solutions and the sustainable development strategies in the context of data-driven sustainable smart cities as a new paradigm of urbanism. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
| Author Keywords | Applied technology solutions; Competences; Data-driven smart city; Data-driven sustainable smart city; Infrastructure; Urban systems and domains |
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