Smart Cities After Covid-19: Ten Narratives
By K. Kunzmann. disP - The Planning Review, 2020
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Abstract Speculations about the possible implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on cities have become a home-office leisure pursuit of planners and journalists who have been forced by anti-virus policies to stay at home, look after their children and entertain their husbands or wives, learn how to do online teaching and practise online shopping despite earlier pledges to never use Amazon’s services. This paper will not speculate on the many implications of the pandemic for people and the economy. It will only focus on the likely impact that the Covid-19 pandemic will have on smart-city development and on policies to apply digital technologies in urban development. This will be carried out by sketching 10 brief narratives that will range from: “Return to Normal after Summer” to “New Power for the Public Sector” and “Tourism at Home”. The paper will conclude with a brief assessment of winners and losers, and anticipate that smart-city development policies will experience a boost after Covid-19.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Media Technology
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- City Digital Twin Potentials: A Review and Research Agenda (2021, background): “Especially now, under the massive attack of the COVID-19 pandemic, where several domains such as education, transportation, and entertainment have been strongly affected, the call for smarting the city and digitizing its services is becoming more relevant and critical [8].”
- The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management (2020, unknown): “It is argued that if the urgency of the situation and the purposes of the surveillance are properly communicated with citizens and they are assured that the collected data will be used for communal benefit, privacy concerns can be mitigated (Kunzmann, 2020; Won Sonn and Lee, 2020).”