Sustainable–Smart–Resilient–Low Carbon–Eco–Knowledge Cities; Making sense of a multitude of concepts promoting sustainable urbanization [PDF]
Over the last couple of decades, metropolitan areas around the world have been engaged in a multitude of initiatives aimed at upgrading urban infrastructure and services, with a view to creating better environmental, social and economic conditions and ...
Allwinkle +97 more
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Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard [PDF]
Growing practice interest in smart cities has led to calls for a less technology-oriented and more citizen-centric approach. In response, this articles investigates the citizenship mode promulgated by the smart city standard of the British Standards ...
A. M. Townsend +37 more
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Advancing Green Growth through Innovative Engineering Solutions
In some countries, the rules about how to grow their economy are changing. They are focusing more on green economic growth to develop despite global uncertainties. Green growth means changing current industries and creating new
Seeram Ramakrishna +3 more
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Product Service System Innovation in the Smart City [PDF]
Product service systems (PSS) may usefully form part of the mix of innovations necessary to move society toward more sustainable futures. However, despite such potential, PSS implementation is highly uneven and limited.
Aoun C +14 more
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Technology, governance, and a sustainability model for small and medium-sized towns in Europe [PDF]
New and cutting-edge technologies causing deep changes in societies, playing the role of game modifiers, and having a significant impact on global markets in small and medium-sized towns in Europe (SMSTEs) are the focus of this research.
Mercadé Melé, Pere +2 more
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OPEN EDUCATION IN STUDYING SCIENCES – DEVELOPING OF A EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK
The article presents in detail the main outcomes of a recent action – research project PULCHRA – Science in the city (https://pulchra-schools.eu/), funded by Horizon 2020 EU program, promoted by the University of Athens and a consortium of ten academic ...
Gabriela Noveanu +3 more
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Smart green infrastructure in a smart city – the case study of ecosystem services evaluation in Krakow based on i-Tree Evo software [PDF]
It is a common perception that urban greenery does not bring any rational benefits, while profits from real estates are obvious. Therefore, the cities green infrastructure (urban forests, parks, trees, lawns, meadows, etc.) are constantly threatened with
Siedlarczyk, Ewa +3 more
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From Bricks to Bytes: Digitizing Green Cities
The research is focused on green cities and the role of digital media in the development of corporate sponsorship for high tech green cities currently under construction (e.g., Masdar in Abu Dhabi, Songdo in South Korea, PlanIT Valley in Portugal).
Diane Valerie Wildsmith, Phil Smith
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GEOMATICS FOR SMART CITIES: OBTAINING THE URBAN PLANNING BAF INDEX FROM EXISTING DIGITAL MAPS [PDF]
The urban analytics expression is spreading out. To our understanding, it deals with the capability of measuring cities and their communities, as a support to their effective planning and management.
V. Casella, M. Franzini, R. De Lotto
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Objective: To develop a new concept of teledentistry for the elderly through a web platform and associated mobile application in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Víctor Beltrán +4 more
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