257R_Formal Model for Green Urbanism in Smart Cities (research summary)

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Summary of the article titled Formal model for green urbanism in smart cities from 2024 by Luca Lezzerini, presented at the International Conference on Green Urbanism and then published as part of Greening Our Cities: Sustainable Urbanism for a Greener Future book.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Matt Gijselman in episode 258 talking about the green and blue urban infrastructure.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how smartness and green urbanism can connect. This article presents modes to measure green urbanism in smart cities.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

1. Balancing urban development with natural resource conservation requires a flexible, interdisciplinary framework that includes all stakeholders.
2. Green Urbanism in smart cities integrates sustainability, liveability, and environmental preservation but is difficult to measure.
3. The Essence 1.2 standard is adapted to create a formal model for tracking and evaluating the green dimension of smart cities through measurable KPIs.

You can find the article through this link.

Abstract: The paper deals with the formulation of the principles of Green Urbanism in a smart city. According to some scholars, the main values provided by a smart city can be summarised as Sustainability, Quality of Life, Equity, Livability and Resilience. Most of these values have the green dimension as a foundation element. Measuring this green dimension can be fundamental to evaluating a smart city’s effectiveness in terms of provided values. The research question is how to formally and in a measurable way define the Green dimension in a smart city. Expected results are an improvement of the formal definition of Green Urbanism in the smart city context and, in general, of Green aspects of any built space. Another important result is a first theoretical core to plan and evaluate progress in the development of the Green dimension in a smart city. In this sense, the research results can be considered the starting point to develop a descriptive theory of Green Urbanism. The methodological approach starts by exploring the main business models, in a wider sense, applicable to a smart city, identifying the stakeholders and a framework to define, measure and develop the green dimension of a smart city. KPIs and concepts to be measured are derived from worldwide used standards. A peculiarity of the research is the use of a software engineering standard as a language and an approach to describe such a Green dimension. The standard is an Object Management Group official standard, Essence 1.2, the first formal descriptive theory in software engineering, and it has been applied and customised during the research to enhance the ability to implement, through the software and hardware elements of a smart city continuously keeping into account the Green requirements.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.189R - Biourbanism (book summary)
• No.190 - Interview with Adrian McGregor about cities being part of nature
• No.244 - Interview with Joe Glesta about urban climate resilience planning

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