What are smart cities?
There is no clear definition of smart city. Smart city carry a vision that an urban space is well planned and structured, technologically sound and environment friendly. It should evolve itself as the technology advance. It should be highly integrated with latest technologies which help in making people live livable, workable and sustain able.
What is smart about them?
According to smart city council, all the data is collected through censors and processed in the central data base to make city as efficient as possible. All the data of electricity, water, Gas, traffic and other government analysis is stored at a central repository to make efficient use of all the resources available.
It helps in maintaining optimum demand
According to Mckinsey global institute report, India population is projected to increase from 34 crore in 2008 to 59 crore in 2030. These studies also projected that these smart cities would generate 70% of the new job by 2030. It will produce more than 70% of Indian GDP and help increasing per capita by 4 times.
Is there new cities going to be build?
In the budget speech Arun Jaitley said “Unless new cities are developed to accommodate the burgeoning number of people, the existing cities would soon become unlivable”. He also said that the Rs 7060 crore allocation would all not go in setting up brand new cities. Instead, the aim is to build satellite towns near existing urban areas on the smart city template, upgrading existing mid –sized cities, and to build settlement along the industrial corridors.
Dholera Special Investment region
Once again Gujrat is going to act ahead of its time. Once again it is going to create history. It is going to create the special investment region(SIR). That will reshape india industrial and economic face. It is going to setup Dholera special investment region. This very first SIR showcases the global vision and the big dream of our Prime Minister Narendra
This building will be a master piece of art and design. It will be a Iconic structure and stand out as of imprint of Gujrat enterprising spirit. The Dholera SIR will have low carbon foot print due to extensive investment in harnessing solar and wind power. The adjoining Kalpasar Dam will create a sweet water reservoir which will transform the area into a area with lush green landscape. It is further proposed to develop Black Buck centaury and golf course for tourist attraction.
The central spine of Dholera SIR is 10 lane expressways. This will connect the SIR with Ahemdabad in one hand and Airport, seaport on the other. The Dholera SIR will also be connected through Ahemdabad through metro rail system. SIR will also be served by world class international airport and major seaport in the area. While the state government is committed to public investment in co infrastructure, it is also open to private investment.
The SIR will be governed by new SIR act another first in kind in India. The state government has already enacted the SIR act. SIR is self governed economic region setting global benchmark. It has full support of central government and state government. It has legislative support of upcoming dedicated Freight corridor between Delhi and
However, there is usually not enough land or housing for the city's growing population. There is also not enough jobs in the city to keep everyone employed. Poverty increases and jobs give lower and lower pay. The poor live in slums
promoting smart growth. It will be clear that smart growth is the better policy when it comes to building and maintaining America’s towns and cities. One of the most startling consequences associated with urban sprawl is the endless array. of health implications that it has been linked to. According to Public Health Grand.
An effort to combat the continual development of urban sprawl, smart growth development looks to solve this dilemma. The idea of smart growth concentrates its development around compact walkable centers within urban areas. The purpose of this is to avoid the growing sprawl through the implementation of walkable, bicycle-friendly and alternative transportation like b...
Population density is the total number of people per unit of area, usually per square mile. As population density rises to high levels, as it has in today’s cities, the familiar problems of urban living appear, including high rates of crime and homelessness.Interacting with these problems are crises of the physical environment, such as air and water pollution and the growing output of hazardous wastes with the resultant global warming. ” Ten Years from now,India will have an extra 250 million people. In five of the worlds “hot spots” of water d...
A general situation of urbanization trend in developing countries and developed countries is increasing. In 18th Century only 3% of the world total population lived in urban areas but as projected in 2000 this number will increase at above 50% (UN as cited in Elliot, 1999, p. 144). According to UN (as cited in Elliot, 1999, p.144), it is figured that the total urban population in developing countries has increased from approximately 400 millions people in 1950 to approximately 2000 millions people in 2000. At the same time, total urban population in developed countries is double...
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For the prevantion of the electricity blackout we need to build smart power grid. A modernized electrical grid that uses analog or digital information and communications technology to gather and act on information, such as information about the behaviours of suppliers and consumers is known as a smart grid. This is used to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity in an automated fashion[12]. The important aspects of smart grid is to electronic power conditioning and control of the production and distribution of
There are several limitations in aviation infrastructure in India for instance parking bays, gates to board passengers, landing slots etc are in short supply. This often leads to massive delays, cancellation and major losses in revenue for many LCCs. For upgraded infrastructure facilities, India’s civil aviation minister Praful Patel said on 15 February 2006 that Indian government defer decision on privatization of International Airport in Delhi and Mumbai. The government aims to set up joint venture to operate these airports and offered 74 per cent stakes. Foreign direct investment (FDI) can hold up to 49 per cent in this transaction, while 25 per cent must be held by private Indian companies. Remaining 26 per cent to be held by Airport Authority of India (AAI) and other government PSUs.
There are three kinds of development in megacities we would like to explore in this paper, they are sustainable development, economic development and human development. Those kinds of development face many problems in megacities. In 1950 there were only New York and Tokyo as megacities and now in this 21 century the number of megacities are increasing.In 2013 noted there are 28 megacities (New Geography, 2013). Industrialization in developing countries is the main reason why the poor peasant in rural area moved to the cities in the name of better job and higher wages. This urbanization will change the population proportion which is decreasing the rural population and on the other side, increasing the population of urban areas. This continuing movement will inevitably create big and even bigger community in the city and in the end a megacity will be formed. This big number of population influences development of megacities.
Urban Planning is about places for people. It is about their creation, their function, their maintenance and their improvement .Cities and towns are the basic building blocks of modern society, operating as centers of commerce and trade, government and politics, and knowledge and culture. Well- planned, efficient cities provide healthy and attractive environment for people to live, work and play.
Analogous to the way humans use the Internet, devices will be the main users in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Therefore, device-to-device (D2D) communication is expected to be an intrinsic part of the IoT. Devices will communicate with each other autonomously without any centralized control and collaborate to gather, share, and forward information in a multihop manner. (Bello and Zeadally, 2014). The word Smart is used in conjunction with various words such as Living, Cities, Metering, Grids, Water Levy and Lighting to describe a variety of applications t...
According to the Charter, a metropolitan area is a “fundamental economic unit of the contemporary world” (1). Metropolitan regions defines the world geographic characteristics but their boundaries are subjected to change. Therefore metropolitan regions are patterns made by government policy, powerful policy actors and natural life as urban life is organized into “multiple centers that are cities, towns, and villages” (1).
We must avoid the temptation if at any given time our individual national economy is more prosperous than those of our other partner states, to be so arrogant as to forget that our economic situation may be suddenly reversed and that therefore we will soon need close links with our partner states in matters concerning both the intra-regional and extra-regional spheres. West Indian history abounds with instances of countries suffering sudden reversals of their economic fortunes.
As an easy scope of defining it, urban smart city is a wicked problem since it represents the inability of city planners to incorporate information technology in the daily processes of every urban area to increase their effectiveness and efficiency due to lack of adequate knowledge concerning the outcome of such initiatives. It is a fact that information technology’s limitless uses are likely to create urban centers that make living easier and better, but there is uncertainty with reference to their interconnectivity impacts (Chen par.2). The easiness of identifying the causes of the wicked problem of urban smart city prompts the consideration of various factors. These factors include the issues of privacy and security that surround technological devices, lack of clarity on eventual impact to urban livelihoods, lack of proper operation and maintenance funds, and non-commonness of policies that promote smart city agendas. Fortunately, a solution is available that can alienate all the afore-listed causes of the wicked problem of urban smart city. It involves the adoption of a leadership plan that centers on harmonizing all elements that typify urban smart city. Harmonized leadership is poised to describe systematically the vital features and functions of a typical urban smart city that covers conception, design, implementation, operation, and maintenance. These descriptions are what every involved