A city that makes life easier for everyone, which uses smart technology in its public places, and that develops new ways of connecting people and improving city amenity
In creating the most liveable city, the design of the street is one of the major areas that municipalities must pay great attention to. Many cities started to experiment on parts or blocks of a street to formulate the best design framework for improving the quality of the inhabitants’ lives.
Play Street is an intervention of a street or parking lot temporary closure to create a place for children to play outdoors. This initiative is one way to improve not only the quality of life of the children in cities, but also strengthen the community's relationship.
Children who walk for their daily commute to and from school are healthier and less likely to be obese (Bosch et al., 2019). They are also better at recognising and visualising their neighbourhood through maps, explain the built environment
Despite city population that continuously grows around the world. Creating a safe and accessible city planning and design for all members of the community is not the pre-set of many smart cities.
Proximity to services, education and employment opportunities are the main attraction to city living. These factors are also the reason young families choose the city centre as their home. However, the city centre may not always be suitable for raising children, as the main trend of families still choose suburban living.
As part of the Smarter London Strategy, the 33 local authorities are working together to create more user-designed services. This mission is a way to create Smart City that is in tune with what the citizen need. To support this, London also developed new approaches that ensure digital inclusion, so that everyone can access the public services online.
Densely built cities made from low albedo materials, lack of green infrastructure, traffic and other human activities have caused a phenomenon called urban heat island effect (UHI), where the urban air temperature is higher than the surrounding rural environment.
One way to build a strong sense of community in the city is to create high quality public spaces. Citizen well being may also improve due to the greater sense of community from feeling safe, secure and sufficient civic participation in the neighbourhood.
Adaptive reuse is a strategy of converting an existing building to a new kind of function or activities. It is a strategy that supports the smart growth of the city with its infill development while also serving as a historic and cultural preservation method.
With the advancement and change that technology brought to the urban landscape, how we use public space in urban context also changes. Streets, plaza, and parks used to be the main physical public space where people shared the city’s resources.
In the age of sensors, wireless networks, smartphones and other interactive technologies; the important role of physical public space may be overlooked. However, integrating those interactive technology can improve the qualities of physical space as de Waal et al. (2021) explains the five concepts that can enhance the public space qualities in cities
Technological innovation and economic prosperity as objectives of Smart City cannot fully succeed without appropriate citizen and community support and participation. One substantial group of the citizens that is often overlooked are children.
Bodø is a municipality located in the northern part of Norway with 51,000 inhabitants. The city is going through a major transformation as the national air force base in Bodø is being relocated by the Norway national government. The Smart Bodø program is being introduced to transform the city.
Cities that are located in coastal areas face a particular challenge due to the changing climate. Sea level rise, storm surges and floods are just some of the disastrous phenomena that threaten coastal cities. With the advancement of technology, devising ICT in the Disaster Management System has become widely prevalent for city government.
Building cities that are resilient to become crucial as more unpredictable hazards and disasters that we have never seen before. A city should be able to deal with and adapt to various kinds of pressure, changes and disaster without harming the livelihood or severely damaging the urban system.
Flooding is one of the biggest problems in Jakarta that are complex and require thorough planning and management from various stakeholders and sectors. Widiachristy and Rachmanto (2021) studied how the Government of Jakarta designed a mobile application as an early warning system (EWS) for floods that has become an annual occurrence in Jakarta.
3T or “Trace, Test and Treat” is the principle that WHO uses for pandemic control. Sonn and Lee (2020), explained how Smart City came in handy, especially, to tackle the first part of the 3Ts, Trace. Learning from previous pandemics that the country faces, such as MERS and SARS, South Korea imposes the law for better pandemic control next time the outbreak occurs.
With cities in Indonesia implementing Smart City technologies become widely used. Real time monitoring and sensing through various devices that transmit data become a common practice with the intention of processing those data to improve the quality of life. However, Rosadi et al. (2017) raised the concern over the lack of data privacy law in Indonesia.
The national government of Indonesia created a website that can be used as a platform to report and voice citizens’ aspiration which the system has been integrated among 34 ministries, 96 public institution and 493 local governments.
Due to its geographic condition, Indonesia is vulnerable to various natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, forest fires etc. In order to better prepare and mitigate the disaster, Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) led the initiative of using technology to map the disaster-prone areas with Geographic Information System.
The limited resource that the city government’s have may limit its capacity to deliver service or run certain programs. City government may have to work around the limited financial capacity or the limited human resource capacity. Thus, partnership with certain private enterprise may be an option for city government ensure the delivery of services to the public.
