Abstract:
This paper broadly aims at understanding the concept of smart city
movement and development from Indian perspective. An attempt is
made to review and understand the concept and definitions of
smart cities in India and other foreign nations especially in the
European countries in a comparative manner. Smart city
movement is similar to sustainability movement. The concept of
smart city aims at improving the efficiency based on intelligent
management, integrated ICTs and active citizen participation. The
broad components of smart city mainly include: Smart Economy,
Smart Environment, Smart Governance, Smart Living, Smart
Mobility and Smart People. By and large, smart city concept
believes in applying Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) to improve the efficiency of cities. Promoting smart cities is
about rethinking cities as inclusive, integrated, and livable." In this
paper, author makes an attempt to carry out comparative
empirical study of contemporary sustainable urban growth theories
mainly Smart growth, Compact city, New Urbanism and Transit
Oriented development (TOD) principles. Suitable lessons are drawn
from the comparative study and on the contrary author argues
that, smart city movement complements sustainable development
and it can be treated as refined and extended version of
contemporary sustainable urban growth theories. In conclusion
author states that, smart growth, new urbanism, compact city and
TOD principles act as pre-requisite for sustainable urban planning
and creating fundamental framework for smart city movement. The
efficiency of the smart cities cannot be enhanced without
considering and adopting principles of contemporary sustainable
urban growth theories. Smart cities and contemporary sustainable
urban growth theories complement each other in creating
sustainable environment and in no way, the term smart city
replaces the words smart growth, new urbanism, compact city and
TOD.
Citation:
Jayprakash, C, & Wijesundara, J., (2016). Revisiting the concept of smart cities in the indian context” – lessons from contemporary sustainable urban growth theories. In J. Wijesundara, & R. Dayaratne,(Eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016. (pp. 108-120). Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa.