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| Title | Toward The Human Scale In Smart Cities: Exploring The Role Of Active Mobility In Ecosystemic Urbanism |
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| ID_Doc | 57757 |
| Authors | Correa F.; Bartorila M.; Ribeiro-Palacios M.; Pérez-Soto G.I.; Rodríguez-Reséndiz J. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | Smart Cities, 7, 6 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities7060155 |
| Abstract | Highlights What are the main findings? Active Mobility (AM) supports compact urban forms, reducing urban sprawl and fostering efficiency, while incorporating information and communication technologies, key to the formation of smart cities. AM enhances social cohesion by activating interdependent urban networks, increasing creativity and complexity in urban environments through smart city technologies like GPS and mobile applications. What are the implications of the main findings? In smart cities, the integration of AM, supported by technologies such as mobile apps and delivery platforms, fosters hyperconnectivity and reshapes urban mobility habits, reducing car dependence and maintaining the human scale. Ecosystemic urbanism, by incorporating active mobility and smart technologies, enables a more complex, interconnected, and human-scale urban environment, enhancing both livability and sustainability.Highlights What are the main findings? Active Mobility (AM) supports compact urban forms, reducing urban sprawl and fostering efficiency, while incorporating information and communication technologies, key to the formation of smart cities. AM enhances social cohesion by activating interdependent urban networks, increasing creativity and complexity in urban environments through smart city technologies like GPS and mobile applications. What are the implications of the main findings? In smart cities, the integration of AM, supported by technologies such as mobile apps and delivery platforms, fosters hyperconnectivity and reshapes urban mobility habits, reducing car dependence and maintaining the human scale. Ecosystemic urbanism, by incorporating active mobility and smart technologies, enables a more complex, interconnected, and human-scale urban environment, enhancing both livability and sustainability.Abstract Active Mobility (AM) currently presents an opportunity to change the paradigm of the competitive and dispersed city created by motorized mobility, revaluing the role of walking and cycling in generating more sustainable urban ecosystems. This article addresses the challenges and opportunities for AM to contribute to the regeneration of urban systems and the capacity for anticipation. This article analyzes AM using the Ecosystemic Urbanism (EU) as an analysis framework within its four axes: social cohesion, complexity, efficiency, and compactness and functionality. Through this analysis, the points of incidence of AM were identified within each of these axes. The study highlights the potential of AM to act as a transformative driver in urban development, integrating an ecological framework where urban systems are interconnected and mutually reinforced. This perspective reveals walking and cycling as a catalyst for reshaping urban interactions. In light of this, future cities must adopt a human urban scale through compactness that fosters complexity and diverse and engaging urban interactions. In addition, the enjoyability achieved through AM brings significant ecosystem benefits by promoting awareness of others, nature, and the interconnectedness between the individual and the city. This represents a new paradigm shift in which the automobile does not play the central role, allowing more sustainable ways of living together. |
| Author Keywords | active mobility; cycling; ecosystemic urbanism; smart cities; sustainability; technology; walking |
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