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Title	Unveiling The Smart City: How Smart Is It?
ID_Doc	59790
Authors	Allam Z.; Newman P.
Year	2023
Published	Cities and Nature, Part F345
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28028-3_1
Abstract	The emerging concept of Smart Cities brings about promises of increased efficiency and performance of urban areas through the use of specialised digital technology. With an aim to promote innovation, this is prompting a wide adoption in high- and low-income economies as most countries embark on strategies to use the concept to boost foreign investment and financial confidence and to showcase national innovation. However, as the demand for the technology inherent in Smart Cities booms, questions arise as to whether the concept is promoted primarily by ICT corporations driven by profit-making and merely equates supply with demand without any other fundamental values for creating a better future. We suggest that Smart City technology needs to be driven by these deeper values and be integrated into delivery of solutions to multiple local and global needs. This chapter explores this conundrum and showcases the need for tailored solutions rather than “off-the-shelf” technology, as is mostly offered by ICT corporations, and outlines how deeper values as set out through UN processes about sustainability and climate resilience are now essential components of how Smart City is imagined. It also introduces the concept of regenerative design that will be needed to guide how Smart City technology is procured and delivered in the future as an integrated approach to the future city. © 2023, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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