Smart City Case Study

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dSmart City as a Key Strategy to Improve the Urban Quality of Life: A Bottom-Up Approach Towards Building an Inclusive Smart City (Case study: Mashhad, Iran) PhD Proposal, Jamileh Montazer Torbati Introduction The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development in the past few decades has altered the urban environment in every aspect. Urban dwellers are definitely experiencing a new lifestyle, with smart phones, apps and social networks. Smart gadgets are entering our lives as well as our cities. Cities are becoming smart, providing new ways to deal with urban issues, new ways for citizens to communicate with each other and with urban organizations, new ways for urban authorities, planners and managers to monitor, analyse and plan…show more content…
In the thesis we intend to examine what smart city means in practice. It is also covering different approaches towards building Smart Cities and we evaluate them in terms of covering target groups and being inclusive and progressive. Then we discuss the state of Iran in getting its cities on the path of being smart by focusing on Mashhad as the case study. At the end, Smart Cities principles is reviewed and it looks into possible implication of the concept in…show more content…
Since then, it has become a trend in Iran for municipalities of metropolitan areas such as Tehran, Isfahan and Mashhad to have a smart city department. Mashhad as the first one and as the leading role model could make an explicit example to take the initiative in Iran and in a greater region of the Middle East. The following provides the vision, mission and the analysis of the state of Mashhad in the path of achieving smart city title: Smart city ‘s vision: “Mashhad is a beautiful, happy, safe and well connected city with an innovative service based economy”. Smart city ‘s mission: “Providing services and information for citizens and pilgrims through establishing ICT infrastructure with unlimited, quick, accurate and safe access by creating equal opportunities for all stakeholders and target groups. According to (Taewoo & Pardo, 2011) three fundamental factors make a city smart: technology (Physical infrastructure, Smart technologies, Mobile technologies, Virtual technologies, Digital networks), institutions (Governance, Policy, Regulations/directives) and people (Human infrastructure, Social capital). While Mashhad, to some extent met the first two sets of factors, the third factor is still very undeveloped in the context of smart city
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