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Discover how smart city solutions are revolutionizing urban living in Australia, focusing on technology, sustainability, and citizen engagement.

Discover how smart city planning is transforming urban living in Australia through technology, sustainability, and innovative infrastructure solutions.

Discover how smart city solutions are transforming urban life in Australia. Learn about innovative technologies and their role in building sustainable cities.

Discover how smart city solutions are reshaping Australian cities. Explore innovative technologies and strategies for building smarter, more sustainable urban environments.

This blog post examines the crucial role of infrastructure in Australia's smart city development. It explores key elements, challenges, and solutions, offering insights and actionable advice for creating smarter, more sustainable cities.

his blog post provides a comprehensive overview of Australia's smart city initiatives, exploring key projects, challenges, and future prospects. It offers actionable tips for readers to contribute to building smarter, more sustainable Australian cities.

This blog post provides an overview of smart city solutions in Australia, discussing their benefits, challenges, and implementation strategies. It aims to inform and inspire readers to embrace the potential of smart cities for a better urban future.

This post explores how smart city solutions are transforming Australian urban landscapes, highlighting the benefits, challenges, and actionable steps for implementation.

This post explores the transformative potential of data smart city solutions, highlighting key applications, challenges, and best practices for implementation. It emphasizes the importance of data-driven decision-making, ethical data governance, and collaboration in building smarter and more sustainable cities.

Climate justice literature has indicated that vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, children and immigrants, may be disproportionately affected by climate change. Yang and Juhola (2021) investigated factors that may contribute to the likelihood of climate adaptation to be implemented in European cities, including whether a higher proportion of vulnerable population impact the likelihood of the city to adopt climate adaptation policies.

Dar es Salaam, the major port city in Tanzania, is experiencing rapid population growth and urbanization. About 70% of urban development in Dar es Salaam is unplanned, and a quarter of the population resides in the Msimbazi River basin and its tributaries. Consequently, the loss of drinking water and fertile floodplains for agriculture has occurred, and the city faces recurrent floods that cause damage to infrastructure, lives, and the environment.

Resilience has become a key focus in the urban development in India, with an emphasis on blue and green infrastructure. Two notable programs, the Smart Cities Mission and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), aim to enhance the governance and sustainability of Indian cities through infrastructure and management reforms.

In 2100, it is predicted that global investment and maintenance cost of protection of coastal cities can go up to US$ 70 billion annually. Flooding, erosion and sea level rise are just example of hazards that coastal cities are facing both as fast and slow onset disaster. To improve their resiliency, coastal cities has adopted advance technological systems that not only useful to inform inhabitants as disaster happening but also as a tool to educate the community.

Disaster Risk Management in coastal cities includes all action, programs and measure that city government do before, during and after the disaster that minimise the loss or impact due to the coastal disaster happening and to speed up the recovery of the community that are impacted.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is a global agreement adopted in 2015 at the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan. It sets out a comprehensive roadmap and guiding principles for reducing disaster risk and building resilience to disasters at the national, regional, and global levels.

Land commodification and housing marketisation as a result of industrialisation in Chinese cities have pushed many traditional villages out of the market to make room for more profitable high-rise development. Architect Wu Liangyong pushed back by using the organic renewal concept, to repair the traditional courtyard houses in the Ju’er Hutong project.

To overcome the deindustrialisation that affected many Italian cities in the late 1990s, city leaders and decision makers promotes new lifestyle and sustainable working model to encourages new economic competitiveness and urban quality. Adaptive reuse design strategy is actively adopted to preserve the physical and cultural heritage of abandoned building and industrial sites.

To express their commitment to the promotion of human rights of digital access, The City of Barcelona establish the Institutional Declaration on Technological Humanism. This declaration not only fosters the value of equity in digital accessibility but also protects the citizen right and liberties in the digital space.

In achieving great quality of life in the city, connections to digital infrastructure and services are ubiquitous. Online services as well as offline public services must be coupled together to manage the urbanisation process and communication between local government and the residents.

Mouratidis (2021) study revealed that the quality of our built environment, including in cities influence our subjective well-being.

Study by Mouratidis (2021) explain the theoretical and empirical evidence on how the built environment that city established can influence and shape the subjective well-being (SWB) of its citizen. In this case the SWB is described as combination of three aspects, life satisfaction, emotional well-being and eudaemonia (meaning in life).

Universal Design is a design approach with the objective of creating suitable use of space, product, and environment that everyone in the society can understand, access and use easily. It does not aim for a certain group of disability but serve as much of different users as possible.

An international comparison of 25 cities, suggests that there is a need for capacity building in enhancing urban planning that promotes public health. Despite the consensus of the importance of healthy and sustainable cities, this aspiration lacks the support of measurable policy targets in the case of these 25 cities.

The design of our cities determines our health as the design influence our urban lifestyle. Urban sprawl, a city design and planning that separate different land use such as housing, offices, recreational facilities, retail stores, etc, have been proven to be detrimental to the public health.

Evidence from 282 cities in China in the span of 2009 to 2017 indicates that smart city implementation supports the improvement of urban resilience, particularly in the urban economics resiliency and social resiliency. Zhou et al. (2021) provide three recommendation for their study findings to increase urban resilience through smart city development.

In creating the most liveable city, the design of the street is one of the major areas that municipalities must pay great attention to. Many cities started to experiment on parts or blocks of a street to formulate the best design framework for improving the quality of the inhabitants’ lives.

Play Street is an intervention of a street or parking lot temporary closure to create a place for children to play outdoors. This initiative is one way to improve not only the quality of life of the children in cities, but also strengthen the community's relationship.

Children who walk for their daily commute to and from school are healthier and less likely to be obese (Bosch et al., 2019). They are also better at recognising and visualising their neighbourhood through maps, explain the built environment

Despite city population that continuously grows around the world. Creating a safe and accessible city planning and design for all members of the community is not the pre-set of many smart cities.

Proximity to services, education and employment opportunities are the main attraction to city living. These factors are also the reason young families choose the city centre as their home. However, the city centre may not always be suitable for raising children, as the main trend of families still choose suburban living.