Sociology Report: Analyzing Smart Liveable Cities - City of Adelaide

This sociology report introduces and analyzes the concept of Smart Liveable Cities (SLC), using the City of Adelaide (CA) in Australia as a real-world example. The report explores how CA is evolving into a leading smart city by integrating 21st-century digital technologies, fostering innovation, and promoting collaboration between governing bodies, research universities, and corporations. It discusses various smart city initiatives, including EIAM projects and the city's focus on innovation, education, and research. The report highlights how CA aims to create opportunities for innovators, provide flexible collaborative spaces, and serve as a demonstration ground for new technologies. The analysis also covers the city's progress in areas like med-tech, advanced manufacturing, AI, and cyber-security, ultimately aiming to improve the city's liveability. The report references several sources to support its findings and provides a comprehensive overview of the actions needed to enhance CA's smart city status and promote a sustainable future.

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Smart livable cities: Short written response
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9/29/2019

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Smart Liveable Cities
The discussion is focused on introducing the Smart Liveable Cities (SLC) concept. To do so,
this paper will explore real-life cases of smart liveable cities in order to explore how such
smart cities can be further transitioned for a sustainable future. In this way, the real-time
example of smart cities in Australia which has been chosen here is the City of Adelaide (CA)
(Invest Adelaide, 2019). Subsequently, it is going to explore the idea of ‘Smart Liveable
Cities’ (SLC) with the help of CA. With the help of important examples in the chosen
Australian city, EIAM projects, plans, policies, activities, as well as other smart city
initiatives will be explained and explored related to the SLC (Hojer & Wangel, 2015).
For CA, it can be easily said that the city is purposefully designed for the smart people and
smart world. Based on (Invest Adelaide, 2019), It is being observed that CA is completely on
track of becoming one of leading smartest cities in the world. CA is an internationally
connected as well as opportunity-rich economy of modern era. The creators of smart nations
in Australia are actually creating an ecosystem of citizen-driven and open innovation, sharing
and building resources as well as services (Kramers et al., 2016). The city is being made
smart in order to generate novel standards in the way community people live, work, do
business and learns as well.
From the technology perspective, the City of Adelaide is embedding 21st-century digital
technologies into its core infrastructure for effectively improving the integration and
functionality of the whole city and economy as well (Bakici et al., 2013). In addition to that,
in CA sensors’ network support smart-city initiates and projects which ultimately allow
people to better manage daily functions like carbon emissions, energy consumption and most
importantly the movement of people.
Moreover, the chosen smart city is doing well in areas such as innovation, education, and
research. In this context, it is worth knowing that CA owns three world-class research
universities, along with an entrepreneurial ecosystem (Deakin, 2013). The research and
innovation of CA are actually sparking with a focus and potential on future industries. Apart
from this, excellence in some important technological fields like med-tech, advanced
manufacturing, AI, creative industries, advanced data analytics, and cyber-security are
helping the city to become smarter day-by-day (Smart Nation and Digital Government
Office, 2018).

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While being smarter, the city is all along becoming accessible and collaborative for the
people living there. For instance, Adelaide’s governing bodies, research universities, and
corporates are working closely together for advancing their smart city achievements (Invest
Adelaide, 2019).
In this context, based on (Smart Nation and Digital Government Office, 2018), the City of
Adelaide Smart City Program contains key objectives like:
 The CA must able to create opportunities for contemporary innovators while building
the products and services which will be required worldwide for rest global cities to be
truly smart (Bibri & Krogstie, 2017).
 The CA must be designed like a flexible space which encourages collaboration in all
of the possible forms
 The CA can offer small and large workspaces for collaboration amid developers,
student groups and project teams
 The CA can be considered as a demonstration space, where novel technologies,
applications, and services can be tested as well as explained (Hojer & Wangel, 2015).
 The CA be seen as a space for hosting smart events and business meetings
In whole, the above discussion has successfully discussed the concept of SLC with the help
of the chosen smart city as City of Adelaide. In this way, this paper has successfully narrated
various smart city initiatives in CA which Australian Government has conducted, proposed
and conceptualized. Thus, the City of Adelaide has been explored successfully from the
perspective of EIAM applications. In whole, this discussion has successfully identified
required actions that need to be implemented in the City of Adelaide for improving its
liveability.

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References
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Bibri, S.E. & Krogstie, J., 2017. Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive
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Deakin, M., 2013. Smart cities: governing, modelling and analysing the transition. Ed. ed.
London: Routledge.
Hojer, M. & Wangel, J., 2015. Smart sustainable cities: definition and challenges. ICT
Innovations for sustainability, pp.333-49.
Invest Adelaide, 2019. Adelaide Smart City. [Online] Available at:
https://investadelaide.com.au/why-adelaide/adelaide-smart-city [Accessed 2019].
Kramers, A., Hojer, M., Lovehagen, N. & Wangel, J., 2016. Smart sustainable cities–
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Smart Nation and Digital Government Office, 2018. Initiatives. [Online] Available at:
https://www.smartnation.sg/what-is-smart-nation/initiatives [Accessed 14 February 2019].