Quality of life in smart cities and communities, taking into account their

spatial, economic, social, and environmental circumstances

Dianne Lalla-Rodrigues

Director, ABBS

June 21, 2016

Mega Cities (>10 million people)

• UN Report (July 2014)

– 1990: 10 mega-cities, 153M people

– 2014: 28 mega-cities, 453M people (Asia16,

Latin America 4, Africa and Europe 3, North

America 2)

– 2030: 41 mega-cities projected

What is sustainable development?

"Development that meets the needs of

the present without compromising the

ability of future generations to meet their

own needs”.

(The World Commission on Environment and Development’s (the Brundtland

Commission) report Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1987).

What are the needs of the present; which of

these will be met?

Challenges…

Climate change

Natural disasters

6.25bn living in cities by 2050

Sustainable Development Goals

New idea – Smart City

• To promote the intelligence of city

planning, construction, management and

intelligent service in order to improve the

economic development and quality of life

of its residents

– Integration of information and communication

technologies in a secure way in both the

public and private sectors

Pillars of Smart Cities

• Economic Sustainability – capacity to develop economic potential and attract

business and capital

– closely linked to financial stability (recent financial

crisis new models needed)

– the attractiveness as an investment location (ease of

doing business)

– economic fabric of the city and market for smart

solutions

Pillars of Smart Cities….

• Social Sustainability – guaranteeing access to basic services

– avoiding social exclusion of sections of the population

(social unrest)

– ensuring basic level of services for all:

telecommunications, public transport, water, electricity

affordable and accessible to all groups

– involving all relevant stakeholders from the start

Pillars of Smart Cities….

• Environmental Sustainability

– environmental services and a healthy living

environment

– effects of resource limitations: water, fuel,

– quality of life and health: pollution

– Risk management and resilience to

environmental shocks

Underpinning principles…

• Spatial [big] data – single source of reliable data needed for decision

making (everything happens somewhere only when

you know where everything can connections be

created)

– www.dataforcities.org (analyse your city relative to

others)

• Vertical integration

• Horizontal integration

• To ensure that smart integrated systems are put

in place internationally agreed upon standards

that include technical specifications and promote

interoperability are necessary

• https://www.thinglink.com/scene/723163962379

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International Standards for more

sustainable, efficient and connected cities

Quality of Life

Sustainable development for communities -

ISO/TC 268

• Developed a wide range of standards on

sustainable development in communities

including standards on indicators for smart

cities and smart infrastructures

• https://www.youtube.com/embed/X0mXHU

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International Standards..

• Transfer technology and best practices

• Promote innovation and optimal use of resources

• Provide requirements for monitoring technical ad

functional performance

• Ensures technologies used are safe and efficient

• Mitigates against risks and disasters

• Ensure interoperability

• Improves quality of life for citizens

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