Essays about: "smart city in practice"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words smart city in practice.
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1. Umeå, Sweden; Becoming a Smart City : How can a city succesfully achieve transforming into a smart city?
University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, FöretagsekonomiAbstract : While several authors have focused on the different components of smart city projects and practicalities for their development in large urban areas, despite the absence of a consensual definition of what a smart city is, limited attention has been given to the transformation process achieved by multi-actor relations derived from a sustained network of social innovation and collaboration in smaller cities. Focusing on the Swedish city of Umeå, this study focuses on answering the research question: How is the city of Umeå achieving a smart city transformation? For this purpose, this manuscript inductively examines the opinions and experience of several professionists and decision-makers involved in smart-city projects for a theoretical identification of the observed social phenomena allowing this sustained development. READ MORE
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2. Shaping the Future City - Ethical Considerations of Implementation of Technology in Urban Design
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : Reliable data is the strongest driving force of the modern Smart City. To get access to relevant information that will allow building a long-term management policy, the city is filled with sensors and video cameras connected to a high-speed data transmission infrastructure. READ MORE
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3. From Smart to Shrewd: Provincializing “Smart” Urbanism through the Heterogenous Infrastructure of Waste Work in Kibera and Mathare, Nairobi
University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknikAbstract : Urban global waste generation has been growing at alarming rates and innovative sustainable solid waste management is considered vital to addressing the waste crisis. The vision to achieve this globally has mostly been taken its inspiration from cities in the Global North. READ MORE
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4. Street Trees Across Culture and Climate : A Comparative Analysis of Density and Distribution
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : The positive relationship between humans and nature is manifest in the urban greening movement, which has taken root in cities around the world. Street trees are an essential component of urban design and have emerged from a variety of historic legacies, both human and environmental. READ MORE
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5. Dismantling Extractivism in Smart Living : Radical approaches to sustainability transitions
University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknikAbstract : This thesis is an undisciplinary exploration of the expanding concept of extractivism that has shaped the social structures running in visible and invisible ways through our daily lives. This research work starts with a broad understanding of the histories of extractivism as an embedded practice that articulates modes of being in the world. READ MORE
