GEO 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smart City, Web 2.0, Openstreetmap
6 Apr 2016
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Smart city solutions: linking web evolution to sustainable urbanization (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Density allows for: potential to manage economic activities in environmentally friendly and resource-efficient manner, action to promote protection of environment. Associated with: digitization, connectivity, efficiency, intelligence. Definition: uses information and communication technologies to. Enhance quality, performance and interactivity of services. Reduce costs, resource consumption and environmental impacts. Improve connection between citizens and government: the livability is what makes it smart. Allows for smarter and convenient decisions: mobile pay parking. Need: developing cities need smart cities more. Ex: india: places moving from rural to urban areas. Identification: look at interconnection between all things, solar production for smarter homes, better city design. Where do you start: technology that supports it (digitization) Influences our lives daily: its very convenient, it connects everyone. Started in 1989: only 26 years old, the web.
