Inclusive Smart City: Expanding design possibilities for persons with disabilities in the urban space

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joao Soars de Oliveira Neto ◽  
Sergio Takeo Kofuji
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Persons With Disabilities

When Wearable Computing Meets Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 1356-1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Soares de Oliveira Neto ◽  
André Luis Meneses Silva ◽  
Fábio Nakano ◽  
José J. Pérez-Álcazar ◽  
Sergio T. Kofuji
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Wearable Computing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Persons With Disabilities

In this chapter, wearables are presented as assistive technology to support persons with disabilities (PwD) to face the urban space in an autonomous and independently way. In the Inclusive Smart City (ISC), everyone has to be able to access visual and audible information that so far are available just for people that can perfectly see and listen. Several concepts and technologies – such as Accessibility and Universal Design, Pervasive Computing, Wearable Computing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud Computing – are associated to achieve this aim. Also, this chapter discusses some examples of use of wearables in the context of Smart Cities, states the importance of these devices to the successful implementation of Inclusive Smart Cities, as well as presenting challenges and future research opportunities in the field of wearables in ISC.

scholarly journals Access to ICT in Poland and the Co-Creation of Urban Space in the Process of Modern Social Participation in a Smart City—A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 2136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrycja Szarek-Iwaniuk ◽  
Adam Senetra
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Information And Communication

A smart city is one of the latest concepts in the development of modern cities. It has evolved from the foregoing smart cities 1.0 and 2.0 to the smart city 3.0, where members of the local community play the main role as not only the recipients of the introduced changes and modern technology, but also as the creators of urban space. One of the goals of a smart city 3.0 is to promote sustainable urban development by improving the quality of life, enhancing social participation, and involving local community members in planning and decision-making processes. This study set out to determine the role and significance of e-participation methods in the smart city concept. The results of questionnaires exploring the importance of e-participation in urban development are presented. The paper also discusses changes in the availability of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Poland. The secondary goal was to present the geo-questionnaire and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) as modern research tools. Internet tools based on geoinformation systems have considerable potential for mobilizing social participation in spatial planning (Public Participation GIS). The present study postulates the need for modern social participation methods in shaping urban space and promoting the sustainable development of cities. The study highlights the main challenges in the research process. The cooperation between the authorities and the citizens contributes to the development of a civil society, informed decision-making, social involvement in public life, and more effective governance at the local, regional, and national level. Measures that foster cooperation between the authorities and local communities, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and growing social awareness and social participation in managing development are the components of a modern smart city and the building blocks of an e-society. The study also revealed positive changes in access to ICT and their contribution to bridging the digital divide in Poland. Higher levels of social awareness regarding participation and e-participation promote the growth of smart cities.

scholarly journals Smart City Ranchi: A New Dimension of Urban Space

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume-2 (Issue-6) ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
Animesh Gope ◽  
Sangam Suman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City

Smart City Ethics

2020 ◽  
pp. 822-839
Author(s):  
Ellen P. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Data Flows

This chapter explores the concept of “smart cities,” a term which describes the growing role of data analytics and sensors in urban life. Smart city initiatives rely on pervasive data gathering and integration, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence to manage mobility, energy, housing, public realm access, and myriad public and private services. These data flows can change how physical infrastructure like streets and parks are configured and services provisioned. They can tailor opportunities for housing or education based on individual digital identities and predictive algorithms. As more life in the city runs through digital apps and platforms, rights to access and control data increase in importance. Data flows from residents and public spaces to smart city corporations raise pressing policy questions about what power the public should cede to private developers to shape urban space, subject to how much oversight and with what expectation of return on public assets. The chapter then sorts these concerns into three major groups: privatization, platformization, and domination.

scholarly journals Algorhythmic governance: Regulating the ‘heartbeat’ of a city using the Internet of Things

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Capture Process ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Traffic Management System

To date, research examining the socio-spatial effects of smart city technologies have charted how they are reconfiguring the production of space, spatiality and mobility, and how urban space is governed, but have paid little attention to how the temporality of cities is being reshaped by systems and infrastructure that capture, process and act on real-time data. In this paper, we map out the ways in which city-scale Internet of Things infrastructures, and their associated networks of sensors, meters, transponders, actuators and algorithms, are used to measure, monitor and regulate the polymorphic temporal rhythms of urban life. Drawing on Lefebvre (1992[2004]), and subsequent research, we employ rhythmanalysis in conjunction with Miyazaki’s (2012, 2013a/b) notion of ‘algorhythm’ and nascent work on algorithmic governance, to develop a concept of ‘algorhythmic governance’. We then use this framing to make sense of two empirical case studies: a traffic management system and sound monitoring and modelling. Our analysis reveals: (1) how smart city technologies computationally perform rhythmanalysis and undertake rhythm-work that intervenes in space-time processes; (2) three distinct forms of algorhythmic governance, varying on the basis of adaptiveness, immediacy of action, and whether humans are in, on-, of-, off-the-loop; (3) and a number of factors that shape how algorhythmic governance works in practice.

scholarly journals Smart city technologies as an innovative factor in the development of the sustainable cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 04014
Author(s):  
Irina A. Strelkova ◽  
Vladislav V. Antropov ◽  
Zhanna V. Ivanovckya
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Russian Market ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Digital Development

The article deals with the problem of sustainability of modern cities in the context of the implementation of the concept of a “smart city”, the combination of the technologies of which acts as an innovative factor in the development of modern urban infrastructure. The characteristics of the main elements of the “smart city”, digital technologies used in its creation are given. The methodology and results of a comparative analysis of the urban digital infrastructure of the world’s megacities in the context of COVID-19 are presented. The assessment of the global and Russian market of smart city technologies is given, trends and prospects of digital development of a modern city are identified as the most important factor in ensuring its sustainability. Recommendations are formulated for the development of solutions in the field of digitalization of urban space, taking into account the opinions of scientists and specialists in the field of management, socio-economic and humanitarian sciences. It is noted that efficiency and safety should become a priority in the implementation of smart city projects.

Influence of barrier-free urban environment on professional socialization of persons with limited health opportunities (example of Perm City)

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
D.A. Rylov ◽  
◽  
M.K. Duvanskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Principal Factors ◽  
Limited Health ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Barrier Free

Examined is the problem of professional socialization of persons with disabilities in a barrier-free urban space. Detailed definitions are given to such concepts, as socialization, professional socialization, disabled person, barrier-free urban environment. Principal factors of professional socialization of persons with disabilities are highlighted. The main concepts reflecting the impact of barrier-free urban space on professional socialization of people with disabilities are analyzed. Presented and analyzed are results of the study, conducted in the city of Perm in order to consider social aspects of professional socialization of persons with disabilities in a barrier-free urban environment, as well as factors affecting them.

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