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Smart City: People-Centric Urban Planning

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When we talk about people-centric urban planning, we are referring to a process that puts people, or end-recipients, at the center of the process. People-centric urban planning develops prototypes and solutions by performing embedded qualitative and quantitative research on those same people and end-recipients.

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When we adapt this model to Smart Cities, we are describing a process by which the broader community (including people with disabilities and other historically undeserved or marginalized communities) becomes the center of the Smart City transformation process. All of our planning tactics and smart city solutions are informed directly by the needs, desires, expectations, and habits of the community.

This process requires urban planners to be nimble and flexible enough to adapt and edit their solutions based on community feedback—integrating and engaging the community into every step of the process from pre-design research and dialogue, to getting feedback on design concepts and prototypes, to noticing how the community uses the final product and making changes accordingly. So how exactly can we begin to integrate this approach into our process? Read On…

 People-centric urban planning is mandatory for successful Smart City transformation because residents understand the strengths and weaknesses of their community and city better than anyone else.

A City isn’t smart if it doesn’t support the needs of all citizens.

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People-Centered Urban Design Focus-Smart City Week 2017 Bangladesh

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Dhaka, 13 November 2017- To build the home-grown vision of people-centric smart cities for all with a theme of ‘Smart City Smart People’ – a ‘Smart City Week 2017′, from 29 november to 05 December has been organized by UNDP Bangladesh, Access to Information (a2i) Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office and urban sector stakeholders. The week will be inaugurated through a three day (29-05 Dec) ‘Smart City Innovation Hub’ at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre.

Having focus on building people-centered cities by not only investing in technology and infrastructures alone but also engaging smart people who care, respect and pay values to the society – the Smart City Week will be a part of ‘Smart City Campaign’. Apart from the three-day “Smart City Innovation Hub” and a range of events like hackathon, roundtable discussion, photo exhibition, kite festival, citizen’s forum, “City Day”, children’s art competition and many more are put under the week’s slogan ‘co-creating cities’….

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URBAN-X | Top 10 key takeaways from Smart City World Congress in Barcelona #SCEW17

URBAN-X | Top 10 key takeaways from Smart City World Congress in Barcelona

e may have reached peak ‘smart city’. This trend depends on the continued densification of global urban areas and the exponential penetration of the internet into industries that were previously isolated from digitization. To see the peak in person, it’s best to get a glimpse at the Smart Cities World Congress in Barcelona; an event that brings together 17,000 people from around the world including 600 municipal leaders and over 500 international exhibitors.

At Urban-X, we see a new model for engineering the city as a service emerging; one in which top-down planning meets with bottoms-up participation and design that integrates people, businesses, buildings and other infrastructure. Open data and platforms that encourage creativity and economic vitality are a defining characteristic of the cities we want to live in.

The key to facing the climate crisis, security vulnerabilities and rapid urbanization is real citizen engagement and collaboration between the public and private sector. Startups have an important role to play, but the true economic potential of this space won’t be fully unlocked until we get good policy change and business model innovation from large companies.

Here are ten key takeaways from the Smart City World Congress in Barcelona that inform our path forward:

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10 Lessons in More Engaging Citizen Engagement | Smart Cities Dive

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s more people choose to live in cities, local governments find themselves facing increasingly complex issues in city-making. Demands for affordable housing and public transit, tensions around gentrification and density, even connecting the dots between city planning and climate change, are just some of the more high-profile critical conversations our cities need. Solutions can come from many places, but smart cities realize that engaging the broad public in the city-making process leads to better answers and a deeper public ownership of our future.

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About Citizen Focus: Smart City Citizen Co-Creation Stategies

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n a time of urban transformation and digitalisation of smart cities, too little attention is sometime given to citizens. Citizen Focus Action Cluster strongly believes in citizens as fundamental actors for the regeneration and development of smart cities. Civic engagement, empowerment, participation and co-creation are at the basis of our advocacy approach since we acknowledge that citizen voice can be pivotal in providing the demand-side pressure on government, service providers and organisations needed to encourage full response to citizen needs…

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Putting People First: Analysis Can Place Citizens at the Center of Smart City Projects

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WEBINAR: Putting People First: Analysis Can Place Citizens at the Center of #SmartCity Projects

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People-Centric Smart Cities: 5 Ways Tech Can Support Better Urban Living

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What are smart cities? While there isn’t a standard definition, consensus is growing around the idea that smart cities utilize technology to foster green development, innovation, and new forms of citizen participation. Smart cities currently enjoy a strong positive image, with 89.6 percent of the population in ten U.S. and Canadian cities in favor of smart city development. Globally, smart…

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Smart Cities put People First – Enterra Solutions

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Although technology is essential to the smart cities movement, the focus should always be on how to make urban living better for people. Source: Smart Cities put People First – Enterra Solutions

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A citizen centric digital city

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While nearly every major city holds a 2020 digital city strategy, there is still a major disconnect between strategy and execution. More often than not, cities invest in multi-year digital cities master plans. However, the experience of building thriving digital enterprises reveals that designing a master plan years in advance is simply not feasible. Rather than try to perfectly design…

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Citizens are #SmartCities Best Partners – @MeetoftheMinds

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Cities at their core are about citizens — the intermingling of diverse sets of people who live, work, visit and play there. Together they create a rich social fabric that transcends buildings, streets and services to form a culture, an identity. All city leaders understand the need to maintain strong connections between citizens, neighborhood networks, government officials and private companies.…

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Who are smart cities going to help the most? | A #SmartCity Citizen Co-Creation Project

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There’s no one way to build a smart city. Cities are different and the wants and needs of their citizens, while similar in many ways, are different in others. As many cities have found out, it’s not always easy to get citizens involved with planning and engaged in the process or who actually benefits (or does not benefit) from the…

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#SmartCities, Smart Citizens, Smart Apps and Citizen-Centric Urban Design

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The drive towards smart cities is accelerating in major cities across the world. Governments and private enterprises are becoming increasingly eager to be a part of the technology-driven push for more sustainable, efficient, clean and safe cities. This means developing smart city solutions that are citizen-centric and offer real value. Source: Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Apps – Liquid State

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Frost & Sullivan proposes a 6-Step Citizen-Centric #SmartCity Model and Guide for City Administrators

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Mumbai, India – 12th August, 2015 – Frost & Sullivan has developed a Citizen-centric Smart City Model that provides a framework to synchronize Smart City development plans with the needs… Source: Frost & Sullivan proposes a 6-Step “Citizen-centric Smart City Development Model for India”- a Guide for City Administrators

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What Do We Need to Build Sustainable Cities?

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very so often, I find it important to reset and to re-envision what a successful future looks like. This article seeks to take a step back and revisit the fundamentals of what the building of a sustainable city requires. The footprint of cities is a heavy contributor to the un-sustainability of life on the planet; each city takes much more…

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Smart Cities: The need for a renewed focus on the citizen

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Perhaps the strongest theme to emerge from our Smart City InFocus conference in Yinchuan, China in September was the need to keep people at the center of smart city initiatives. In many ways, this would seem to go without saying – by definition, city workers are there to serve citizens.However, a number of inter-related trends are making this more imperative…

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The Human Side of Smart Cities: Looking Beyond The Bright Shiny Objects – Smart Cities Connect

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The same innovations transforming business are also transforming cities.  Rapid advances in technology, including the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced mobile broadband capacity, can deliver a highly connected, seamlessly automated, data-rich reality. In a smart city, millions of devices, cameras and sensors collect and deliver data that is shared and analyzed to support better…

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Sensors | Free Full-Text | A Comprehensive System for Monitoring Urban Accessibility in Smart Cities | HTML

A Comprehensive System for Monitoring Urban Accessibility in Smart Cities

Abstract: The present work discusses the possibilities offered by the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies with the aim of designing a system to dynamically obtain knowledge of accessibility issues in urban environments. This system is facilitated by technology to analyse the urban user experience and movement accessibility, which enabling accurate identification of urban barriers and monitoring its effectiveness over…

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Stop trying to hire a growth hacker

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Should You Hire A Growth Hacker? I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, many of whom have been continually working in vain to fill a “growth hacker” or “user acquisition manager” role. It puts a zombie-running fear in my heart that young companies are waiting to adopt a data-driven approach until they find some unicorn marketer […] Source: Stop trying to…

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Building a People-Centric Smart City Ecosystem For All

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A truly digital city needs citizens, governments, businesses and industries to work together. Nearly every major city holds a 2020 digital city strategy. While the topic of digital cities has been gaining popularity, we are still seeing a major disconnect between strategy and execution. Without a clear market definition, the digital city and smart city terms are often interchanged. We…

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How can a city welcome driverless cars? | Prospect Magazine | #SmartCity

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The reality of driverlerss cars on UK roads is closer than you might think. The technology required for cars to drive themselves in simple scenarios has already been used. Self-parking, lane-centering, adaptive cruise control and automatic braking are already common features of mid-priced vehicles. But most of the barriers to adoption are down to people’s perceptions of how autonomous digital…

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Is your city’s transit system prepared for the silver tsunami?

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An interesting piece in Consumer Reports suggests that more than 3.5 million Americans 85 and older currently have a driver’s license. But of the millions of older folks who can no longer drive safely, almost three-quarters live in areas with few if any transportation alternatives. And as Michael Tortorello writes, that’s a senior transportation predicament that will only become more urgent as…

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