CIVIL ENGINEERING 0.

Running Head: CIVIL ENGINEERING
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Civil Engineering
Smart livable cities
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9/2/2019

Civil Engineering
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Smart Liveable Cities
The discussion is focused to introduce the Smart Liveable Cities concept with the help of
illustrative examples in relation to engineering infrastructures. While exploring the real-life
examples of smart cities in order to explore how global cities can be transitioned into the near
future, engineering infrastructures like liveability, water, energy, and transport will be taken
into main consideration. To do so, this discussion is focused on the chosen smart city such as
Newcastle, which is a port city of the popular Australian state New South Wales (NSW)
(Newcastle NSW Government, 2019).
Here, the main engineering infrastructure smart examples for the following engineering
infrastructure fields will be provided:
 Transport
 Energy
 Liveability
 Water
Improved Liveability in City of Newcastle
In this context, in order to improve the liveability of Newcastle city, a smart initiative of
‘Walk Smart’ can be seen as a huge step towards enhanced smart engineering infrastructures’
smart example (Deakin, 2013). Here, this Walk Smart initiative is focused to create safer
pedestrian paths for public visiting the Newcastle Islington, CBD, as well as Hamilton areas
during night.
I believe that this initiate towards improved liveability is smart because:
 It will further enhance safety along these routes, as the NSW Council is working in
partnership with other state governments.
 It will increase people’s feelings of safety (Hojer & Wangel, 2015).
 This smart program is going to increase the utilization of chosen routes while offering
more informal surveillance and hence improving public safety.
 Walk Smart routes are close to key public transport sites counting train stations and
bus stops (Huichen & Neil, 2016).