Initiatives for smarter and more sustainable cities in two Brazilian cities: drivers, benefits and challenges
Authors: 
Lauro André Ribeiro, Maurício Kunz, Thaísa Leal da Silva, Letiane BenincáAuthors Info & Claims
Lauro André Ribeiro, Maurício Kunz, Thaísa Leal da Silva, Letiane BenincáAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 678 - 681
Abstract
As urban areas grow in population, a lot of pressure is placed on already overburdened urban systems, creating environmental, social and infrastructure problems. In this context, smarter and more sustainable cities can provide quality of life to the urban population, reducing environmental impacts and inequalities while promoting economic opportunities. Thus, the objective of this article is to identify and analyze initiatives related to sustainable and smart cities in two Brazilian cities, considering their local circumstances. Three attributes (drivers, benefits and challenges) related to the implementation of initiatives in these cities were listed. It was possible to verify that initiatives developed in these cities present significant differences in the conceptions and the results sought. Despite this, it is possible to observe that both cities' initiatives lack a holistic approach and focus on specific solutions not integrated with each other.
References
[1]
United Nations. 2018. 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. Retrieved from https://population.un.org/wup/
[2]
World Bank. 2010. Cities and Climate Change: An urgent agenda. Retrieved from https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/17381/637040WP0Citie00Box0361524B0PUBLIC0.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
[3]
UN-HABITAT. 2016. World Cities Report 2016 - Urbanization and Development: Emerging Futures. Retrieved from https://unhabitat.org/world-cities-report
[4]
UNESCO. 2016. Culture Urban Future: Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000246291
[5]
Elsa Estevez, Nuno Vasco Lopes and Tomasz Janowski. 2016. Smart Sustainable Cities - Reconnaissance Study. UNU-EGOV
[6]
COMPANHIA DE ENGENHARIA DE TRÁFEGO DE SÃO PAULO - CETESP. 2020. Mapa de Infraestrutura Cicloviária. Retrieved from http://www.cetsp.com.br/consultas/bicicleta/mapa-de-infraestrutura-cicloviaria.aspx.
[7]
Michael Batty, Key Axhausen, Fosca Giannotti et al. 2012. Smart cities of the future. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, v. 214, n. 1, p. 481--518, Nov. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
[8]
Toshihiko Kurebayashi, Yoshihiro Masuyama, Kiyonori Morita, Naoyuki Taniguchi and Fumio Mizuki. 2011. Global Initiatives for Smart Urban Development. Hitachi Review 60(2):89--93.
[9]
Christine Kessides. 2000. Cities in transition: World Bank urban and local government strategy (English). Washington, D.C. World Bank Group. Retrieved from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121041468739318219/Cities-in-transition-World-Bank-urban-and-local-government-strategy.
[10]
Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun. 2010. Green Urban Planning and Design for Smarter Communities. In Anette Hallin and Tina Karrbom-Gustavsson (Ed.) Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development: ICT for Mobility. IGI Global.
[11]
Adegboyega Ojo, Edward Curry and Tomasz Janowski. 2014. Designing Next Generation Smart City Initiatives - Harnessing Findings and Lessons from a Study of Ten Smart City Programs. In Proceedings of the ECIS - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 9-11, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9915567-0-0.
[12]
Emmanouil Tranos and Drew Gertner. 2012. Smart Networked Cities? Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 25(2):175--90.
[13]
Catherine Mulligan and Magnus Olsson. 2013. Architectural Implications of Smart City Business Models: An Evolutionary Perspective. IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 51, Issue: 6, June.
Index Terms
- Initiatives for smarter and more sustainable cities in two Brazilian cities: drivers, benefits and challenges
Recommendations
Review paper on technology adoption and sustainability in India towards smart cities
AbstractThis paper mainly aims to identify the key factors that should be included in building of smart cities in a proper efficient way. Due to rapid increase in urban population, it should be responsible to provide a better way in building of a smart ...
Governing Smart Cities
Smart cities SCs are a recent but emerging phenomenon, aiming at using high technology and especially information and communications technology ICT to implement better living conditions in large metropolises, to involve citizens in city government, and ...
Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities, or Both?
SMARTGREENS 2017: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT SystemsAs the majority of world population will be living in cities by 2050, it became a necessity for societies to build cities that are capable of meeting the needs of current and future generations in a smart way. There have been initiatives toward smart/...
Comments
Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
September 2020
880 pages
ISBN:9781450376747
DOI:10.1145/3428502
Copyright © 2020 ACM.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]
In-Cooperation
- University of the Aegean: University of the Aegean
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
Publication History
Published: 29 October 2020
Check for updates
Author Tags
Qualifiers
- Short-paper
- Research
- Refereed limited
Funding Sources
- Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
Conference
ICEGOV 2020
ICEGOV 2020: 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
September 23 - 25, 2020
Athens, Greece
Acceptance Rates
ICEGOV '20 Paper Acceptance Rate 79 of 209 submissions, 38%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 350 of 865 submissions, 40%
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 46Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)6
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1
Reflects downloads up to 05 Jan 2025
Other Metrics
Citations
View Options
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign in