Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities
A Personal Roadmap to Transform Your City After the Pandemic
- 1st Edition - November 18, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Eduardo M. Costa
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 1 8 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 1 8 7 - 3
Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities explores how to develop emergent smart cities that are rooted in humane, innovative and sustainable values (CHIS). The book considers the move… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHumane and Sustainable Smart Cities explores how to develop emergent smart cities that are rooted in humane, innovative and sustainable values (CHIS). The book considers the move from technocratic and idealized smart metropole to humane cities as a product of fundamental demographic changes, the development of a usage-based rather than an ownership economy, the novel implications of digitalization, decentralization and decarbonization, and Internet-enabled changes in public opinion towards democratization and participation. The book's authors explore seven dimensions and characteristics of humane, sustainable and innovative cities in the developing world: the economy, people, the place, energy and the environment, mobility, social inclusion and governance.
Additional sections the operationalization of the CHIS concept into formal planning, policy implementation, and impact assessment considerations. Final discussions center on building a roadmap for planners seeking to design development policies conducive to human values and long-term social viability.
- Provides an axiological framework for the development of humane, innovative and sustainable cities
- Examines how that framework can be operationalized into formal planning, policy implementation and impact assessment
- Explores humane, innovative and sustainable cities in terms of seven dimensions, including the economy, people, the place, energy and the environment, mobility, social inclusion and governance
- Explores proven paths for promoting effective community engagement in developing humane cities
- Provides a practical roadmap to design development policies conducive to human values and long-term social viability
Graduate students and researchers in Smart Cities, Sustainability, Urban Planning, and Social Science. Institutional readers including all stakeholders in the city: planners, legislators, NGOs, elected representatives, community groups
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. The concept of more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities
- Abstract
- Content
- Sustainable city
- Resilient city
- Creative city
- Knowledge-based or knowledge cities
- Smart (or digital) city
- Humane and Sustainable Smart City
- The book
- References
- Chapter 2. Historical overview: cities from medieval to modern times—what went wrong
- Abstract
- The good…
- The bad…
- And the ugly…
- The way forward!
- Live-work-play in the same area
- Citizen’s wishes, interests, and needs
- References
- Chapter 3. From smart cities to more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities: the world in transformation
- Abstract
- Smart cities
- Cameras and sensors
- Internet of things
- Artificial intelligence and its derivatives machine learning and deep learning
- Big data
- Blockchain
- Identification of a person and privacy
- Smart for whom?!?
- Technology is charming
- Tech companies are TOO powerful
- “Enclosure” of public spaces and public data is happening already
- Social and generational changes
- Digitalization
- Decentralization
- Decarbonization and the UN’s sustainable development goals
- The perfect storm for the car industry
- Who needs a car?
- Electric cars, autonomous cars, and shared cars
- The new cigarette industry?
- Toward more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities
- Enlarge sidewalks
- Speed limit in town up to 40–60 km/hour
- Reclaim useless streets and corners
- Establish a policy of no free parking anywhere
- Secluded bike lanes and bike transport as a system
- Maintain existing parks and create a few new gardens and plazas
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. The eight dimensions of a more Humane and Sustainable Smart City
- Abstract
- Introduction—the Humane and Sustainable Smart City characterization
- The Sustainable Economic Development dimension
- The People dimension
- The Quality of Life dimension
- The Historic, Artistic, and Cultural Heritage, and Tourism dimension
- The Environment dimension
- The Social Inclusion dimension
- The Mobility of People dimension
- The Governance dimension (horizontal)
- References
- Chapter 5. Looking for striking Humane and Sustainable Smart City characteristics in existing cities
- Abstract
- Introduction
- A set of examples
- Chapter 6. Where and how to start in your city
- Abstract
- Strategy
- Choice of the target region in the city
- Before you start
- Planning the workshop
- The 1-week intensive workshop
- A sample case: the surroundings of Ponte Hercílio Luz in Florianópolis
- Lessons learned
- References
- Chapter 7. The future: the need for more Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities postpandemic 2020/21
- Abstract
- The world was not well in January 2020
- Anthropocene
- Inequality
- The pandemic of 2020/21
- Accelerated digital transformation
- The city as a “Commons”
- Hope: the new Humane and Sustainable Smart City postpandemic 2020/21
- References
- Chapter 8. Conclusions and a call to action
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Hope
- What you read in the book so far
- Suggestions for the new HSSC “you”
- The new HSSC “I”
- The new HSSC “us”
- Invitation
- Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 18, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 226
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128191866
- eBook ISBN: 9780128191873
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Eduardo M. Costa
Eduardo Moreira da Costa is an international consultant and speaker on innovation in practice. His research interest focused on the need for transformation in our cities towards more Humane, Innovative and Sustainable places (CHIS) to live. Professor Costa received his PhD from Southampton University in the UK and is a Professor of Knowledge Management at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, where he heads the LabCHIS laboratory (labchis.com). He also sits on the Board of Directors of three companies (SENIOR, HOPLON and SABIA). His consulting assignments include The World Bank, The World Economic Forum, The InterAmerican Development Bank amongst others.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Knowledge Management at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, BrazilRead Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities on ScienceDirect