Smart city information architecture 2700-M-API-D2AIIM
The new model of urban management led to the emergence of many concepts: world city or global city, networked city, digital city, ubiquitous city, informational city, knowledge city, creative city, and – finally – smart city, for which the ultimate technological framework is the Internet of Things.
The smart city concept is used as an umbrella for a large spectrum of solutions and programs, as it is used as a generic term to describe ICT-based urban ecosystems.
“Smart city” is still a fuzzy concept, having its origins rather in marketing than in science, and as the result, there is no broadly accepted academic definition for this term. For some, however, there are three conceptual dimensions of a smart city: technology, people, and community, which means that a city becomes smart, when “investments in human/social capital and IT infrastructure fuel sustainable growth and enhance the quality of life, through participatory governance”. However, the final goal for every smart city is to improve citizens’ quality of life and environmental preservation.
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with selected concepts regarding the modeling of contemporary urban spaces. Approaches such as smart city, creative city, resilient city, digital city will be discussed. Particular emphasis will be placed on solutions supporting the cooperation of various stakeholder groups in creating solutions for urban needs and specific technological solutions implemented in cities. During the course, students learn specialist terminology in English, appropriate for the subject.
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Learning outcomes
- The student knows the basic concepts of smart city
- The student understands the contexts of the functioning of an intelligent city, in particular, the social context
- The student is able to identify a problem in the area of intelligent city public information space architecture and propose a solution for it.
Assessment criteria
The final grade consists of the following components:
- Activity in classes (20%)
- Group project 1 (30%)
- Group project 2 (50%)
Bibliography
Korenik, Alicja: Smart cities. Inteligentne miasta w Europie i Azji. Warszawa, CeDeWu, 2019.
Anna Augustyn: Zrównoważony rozwój miast w świetle idei smart city. Białystok : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2020.
Aleksandra Kuzior, Bartosz Sobotka: Społeczny wymiar smart city. Gliwice : Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, 2019.
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