Redefining and Exploring the Smart City Concept in Indian Perspective: Case Study of Varanasi
01 Jan 2017-pp 93-107
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to redefine the smart city concept in Indian perspective reviewed through the lens of human + collective intelligence, and assessed India's urban conditions, it can be gauged out that there are various prerequisites before embedding ICT into the system.
Abstract: Urbanisation as a phenomenon has existed since long. By 2050 almost 70 % of world’s population will live in cities, hence a demand for more efficient urban systems. With many trends coming up on the urbanisation front, from ‘liveable cities’ to ‘inclusive urban growth’, the latest concern is of ‘smart cities’. As an umbrella concept, smart cities have three subparts: human intelligence, collective intelligence and artificial intelligence (ICT), of which the latter is taking up the major limelight. While assessing India’s urban conditions, it can be gauged out that there are various prerequisites before embedding ICT into the system. This paper attempts to redefine the smart city concept in Indian perspective reviewed through the lens of human + collective intelligence. Varanasi which has been proposed as one of the smart cities to be developed would be taken as a case study.
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...Additional case study analyses can be found in the following publications: • Komninos (2011) selects Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Milton Keynes to describe three different approaches to smart city development in which the local communities’ intellectual capital and information technologies are combined; • Leydesdorff and Deakin (2011) deploy the triple-helix model to analyze the smart city development strategies of Montreal and Edinburgh; • Alcatel-Lucent compares more than 50 smart city cases (Anderson et al. 2012), and a similar research activity is also undertaken by Cisco Systems (2012) and ARUP (Buscher and Doody 2013); • Angelidou (2014) proposes a typological classification of smart city development strategies which draws upon the analysis of Malta, New York City, Barcelona, Songdo IBD, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore and Thessaloniki; • Datta (2015), Yu et al. (2016), Praharaj et al. (2017), Sharma and Rajput (2017) and Bansal et al. (2017) reflect upon the Indian approach to smart city development; • Mora and Bolici (2016; 2017) compare Amsterdam and Barcelona and build a step-bystep roadmap that describes the design and implementation process of smart city development strategies; • Aina (2017) classifies and analyzes a number of smart city cases located in Saudi Arabia....
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TL;DR: The primary objective of the work is to analyze the largest Polish cities in terms of the smart city indicators, which currently form one of the most important models of development.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the role of urban design in rapidly urbanizing historical cities and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India.
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