The Relationship between Smart Cities, Urban Resilience and Sustainability: Implications for Urban Planning

Abstract

Cities function as complex ecosystems with unique qualities, cultural diversity, and distinctive identities, requiring a comprehensive examination of interconnected factors. From an urban planning perspective, sustainability, urban resilience, and the smart city concept are of paramount importance. In urban planning, urban resilience is predominantly associated with responses to natural disasters. Despite being a relatively new concept, resilience is perceived as a transformative approach to mitigating vulnerabilities faced by cities. As concepts, sustainability and resilience are synergistic and strategic, enabling urban planning. To earn the “smart” label, a city must have urban planning that both promotes sustainability and demonstrates urban resilience. This article aims to elucidate the complex interplay between “smart cities”, “sustainability” and “urban resilience” their impacts on urban planning, and their significant aspects. The study employs the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology. Subsequently, a comprehensive analysis of 95 articles, supported by the visualization of keywords using VOSviewer®, was conducted. The analyzed articles span the fields of interior architecture, architecture, and urban planning. The findings emphasize the transformative potential of integrating “smart cities”, “sustainability”" and “urban resilience” principles in urban planning, leading to a paradigm shift towards more holistic and resilient urban environments. The results also highlight the interdependence of smart cities, sustainability, and resilient planning. The study concludes that smart cities cannot be considered separately from sustainability, and sustainability cannot be evaluated independently of urban resilience.

Keywords

• Smart city
• Urban resilience
• Sustainability
• Notion analyze
• Meta-Analyse
• Informatics and Information Technologies in Architecture

Akıllı şehir, kentsel direnç ve sürdürülebilirlik arasındaki ilişki: kentsel planlama için çıkarımlar

Abstract

Cities function as complex ecosystems with unique qualities, cultural diversity, and distinctive identities, requiring a comprehensive examination of interconnected factors. From an urban planning perspective, sustainability, urban resilience, and the smart city concept are of paramount importance. In urban planning, urban resilience is predominantly associated with responses to natural disasters. Despite being a relatively new concept, resilience is perceived as a transformative approach to mitigating vulnerabilities faced by cities. As concepts, sustainability and resilience are synergistic and strategic, enabling urban planning. To earn the “smart” label, a city must have urban planning that both promotes sustainability and demonstrates urban resilience. This article aims to elucidate the complex interplay between “smart cities”, “sustainability” and “urban resilience” their impacts on urban planning, and their significant aspects. The study employs the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology. Subsequently, a comprehensive analysis of 95 articles, supported by the visualization of keywords using VOSviewer®, was conducted. The analyzed articles span the fields of interior architecture, architecture, and urban planning. The findings emphasize the transformative potential of integrating “smart cities”, “sustainability”" and “urban resilience” principles in urban planning, leading to a paradigm shift towards more holistic and resilient urban environments. The results also highlight the interdependence of smart cities, sustainability, and resilient planning. The study concludes that smart cities cannot be considered separately from sustainability, and sustainability cannot be evaluated independently of urban resilience.

Keywords

• Smart city
• Urban resilience
• Sustainability
• Notion analyze
• Meta-Analyse
• Informatics and Information Technologies in Architecture

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