Smart Cities and Sustainability
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Running head: SMART TECHNOLOGIES1Smart technology and its capacity in a neighborhood of AucklandName:Institution Affiliation:
SMART TECHNOLOGIES2Literature review on smart technologies and their usage in the urban planning and designIn the recent years, the concept of the smart technology has come forth especially for the urban planning and the design (Amoore, Marmura & Salter, 2002). Currently, the cities are facing complex challenges to enable them meet the objective regarding the socio-economic development and the quality of life. The number of individuals who are inhabiting the urban areas have been in constant increase (Ekanayake, Jenkins, Liyanage, Wu & Yokoyama, 2012). It is predicted that until the year 2050 the proportion of the individual who are living in the cities would likely change from 53% to around 70%. Having an unequivocal as well as transparent urban planning should be foundation of the smart cities functioning in Auckland. The smart cities have been presently one of the common and most popular ideas. The concept of the smart technologies in the urban design embraces various definition which depends on the meaning of the word smart intelligent city, ubiquitous city, or the digital city (Ekanayake, Jenkins, Liyanage, Wu & Yokoyama, 2012). There are many definition of the smart city which exists but none have been universally acknowledged. Based on the literature it has emerged that the smart city and the digital city have been the most terminologies which have indicated on the use of the smart technologies for the design of the urban setting. The use of the smart technologies in the urban planning and the design have been the conceptual aspect when it comesto the urban development model which is based on the utilization of the human, collective as well as the technological capital which is required in the enhancement of the development as well as prosperity in the urban agglomerations. Where is there is a digital city it is substantively an open, complex as well as adaptive system that is based on the computer network as well as theurban information resources that are able to form virtual digital space for the city (Kinder, 2000).
SMART TECHNOLOGIES3The use of the smart technologies is useful since it creates an information service marketplace as well as the information resource deployment center. The ideas of the use of the smart technologies in the urban planning and the design is the result or the development of the information and the communication technologies which contributes to the redefinition of the aspect of the natural region (Kinder, 2000). To be more specific where there is a smart city, it is due to result of the new, and innovative idea in regards to the city and the urban life which is more pleasant, more inclusive as well as greener and cleaner (Kinder, 2000). It is observed that many of the national or the international government, or the institution finances the concept of the smart technologies in the urban planning and the design since they suggest it is the answer to the city sustainable development (Haines, Mitchell, Cooper & Maguire, 2007). The use of this technology is seen has the key strategy in the improvement of the quality of the life of the billions of individuals who are living in the cities across the world. Ellerslie suburb in AucklandThe resident to which I dwell in is Ellerslie that is a neighborhood in Auckland. In this area thereare various needs that have arisen in relation to the urban services and the built environment (Haines, Mitchell, Cooper & Maguire, 2007). Some of these needs have caused problem especially in this urban areas, below are some of these needs and issues which relates to the area I live in. HousingThis is an issue which that has affected the neighborhood for a very long time. There is a need for a housing policy which can help individuals to stay in their homes, as well as prevent on the foreclosure along with the help of those individuals with the mortgages (Komninos, Pallot &
SMART TECHNOLOGIES4Schaffers, 2013). The neighborhood do not have appropriate housing facilities to the individuals who live there, any improvement of such infrastructure would be significant towards the improvement on the lives of the residents (Haines, Mitchell, Cooper & Maguire, 2007). The adverse effect of the limited housing space is based on the law of the supply and demand, where when the demand for the housing is high and the supply for such is low, the cost for obtaining the residential space would increase thereby, which has constrained the poorer segment of the society to be able to avail of the decent housing (Lay, 2013). As a result many individuals have been forced to locate themselves in areas which they are able to afford or perhaps squat in the areas which they do not belong (Ekanayake, Jenkins, Liyanage, Wu & Yokoyama, 2012). Over the years this has resulted to proliferation of the informal settlers and often some time they are being pushed to build their residences in the environmentally critical places, where the living conditions are not ideal, or perhaps safe. These people have become vulnerable in many respect since they are exposed to greater risks.
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