A short introduction to what does it mean the concept of Smart City and the importance for cities and other urban spaces to adopt it.

1. Slicing Smart Cities
A short introduction to the urban spaces of
the 21st
century
Slice 1. The Smart City concept
Created by Joan Manuel Lopez
@TheBitCity
Under CC BY-SA 4.0 License

2. 2
➢ The Smart City concept
✔ Overview
✔ Cities and urban spaces
✔ Urban intelligence
✔ The Smart City concept
✔ Smart citizens

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Overview
➔ Nowadays, more than a half of the world's
population lives in cities
(In Europe, around the 80%)
➔ In 2050 it is estimated that the urban
world's population will be the 66%
Source: UN. The World Population Prospects – 2015 Revision

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Overview
➔ Fast growth of the urban population
➔ Huge demand of resources
Water, energy, waste management, transportation, housing
➔ Huge production of waste
➔ Environmental challenges
➔ High levels of pollution
➔ Effects of the climate change

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Overview
➔ Economic challenges
➔ Decrease in budgets
➔ Decline of the "traditional" industry
➔ Emergence of ICT technologies
➔ New communication channels ubiquitous and
instantaneous
➔ New opportunities for development

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Overview
Adaptation of cities to the 21st
century
 Concept of Smart City
What does it mean?
 City / Urban space
 Intelligence

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Urban space
Agglomeration of buildings in which people
live and/or work, defined by:
➔ More population
➔ More density / More extension
➔ More infrastructures
➔ Activities and employment concentrated on
secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy
City: subset usually determined by numerical criteria
(number of inhabitants,...)

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Urban intelligence
Ability to use and manage the available resources
within an urban space in efficient and
sustainable ways, taking into account the
economical and environmental points of view, as
well as encourage a social environment inclusive
and collaborative, taking advantadge of the use
of ICT technologies, with the aim to improve the
quality of life of their citizens.

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Concept of Smart City
Brings together the set of initiatives carried out
in an urban space to develop its intelligence.
➔ Whole vision of that urban space
➔ Interaction of all the fields / services
➔ Citizen at the center of all the initiatives as the
biggest beneficiary

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Concept of Smart City
ICT Technologies
Mobility &
Urban Planning
Socioeconomical
Environmental
➢ Social
➢ Economical
➢ Cultural
➢ Governance
Citizens

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Smart citizens
What does it make a citizen being a "smart
citizen"?
➔ Live in the smart city?
➔ Use a smartphone and/or a tablet?
➔ Be an active user of Social Networks?
➔ Fight for the environment?
➔ Travel on bicycle?
➔ ...
ALL the citizens must be equally considered, regardless
their values or conditions

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Smart citizens
Key factor to create "smart citizens"
Engage citizens so that they actively participate in
the process of adoption of the smart city concept.
➔ A city made with all for all.
3 fundamental actions for citizen engagement
Inform Discuss Agree

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