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Abstract
At present, sustainable urban development constitutes a major planning goal for many urban environments coping with contemporary challenges and problems confronted by world cities. Towards this end, the concept of smart cities emerges as a promising policy option for effectively dealing with sustainability objectives. In this respect, the focus of the present paper is on the development of an ICT-enabled participatory planning framework for guiding policy-making towards the planning of smart cities. This framework is in alignment with the argument that smart-city solutions must start with the “city” not with the “smart,” shifting from a technology-pushed to an application-pulled smart-city planning approach, matching different types of “smartness” (technologies, tools, and applications) with different types of urban functions and contexts. It is also built upon a digital platform, integrating tools and technologies for data management and e-participatory planning that can support city- and citizen-specific decision making, capable of dealing with objectives for urban sustainability.
Notes on Contributors
Anastasia Stratigea is an associate professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
Chrysaida-Aliki Papadopoulou is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
Maria Panagiotopoulou is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.