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| Title | Wielding A Concept With Two Edges: How To Make Use Of The Smart Cities Concept And Understanding Its Risks From The Resilient Cities Perspective |
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| ID_Doc | 61879 |
| Authors | Mendle R.S.; Hartung A. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Urban Book Series |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95037-8_16 |
| Abstract | Smart Cities and Resilient Cities are two normative theoretical concepts within urban development research and practice. Using a dialectic approach, we take a closer look at both concepts, identify their core ideas and examine two opposing narratives about how they interact: the thesis of Smart Cities supporting Resilient Cities, and the antithesis that they clash and contradict each other. We examine practical examples for Smart City applications to improve resilience, including sensor networks in early warning systems in Japan, Blockchain applications for disaster relief fund distributions in Vanuatu and using Artificial Intelligence to better understand social resilience in Haiti. We also look at examples of new hazards and risks for cities such as cyber security, privacy issues and threats to economic and material resilience of a city coming from digitalization. As a synthesis, we propose that both concepts are used deliberately and consciously as conceptual lenses to guide urban development practice. We propose that Smart Cities are best to be used as a tool for urban development, not as a normative goal or vision. We suggest that the Resilient City concept provides a lens that can help set the goals and targets for Smart Cities, but also needs to consider new types of risks in what we call digital resilience. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
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