Creating a Smart City – Supporting Management of Regional Project Initiatives

Abstract

Smart cities are developing fast and introducing new practices and services that have a strong impact on policy making and planning, while also interacting with urban facilities. It is now needed to understand the smart city’s contribution in the overall urban planning and vice versa, to recognize urban planning offers in the context of an intelligent city. The article is an attempt to preliminary analysis of the forms of innovation in small urban models for sustainable development, which can be used in an smart city. The structure of the review has been developed on the basis of conceptual framework of off-grid complex that unite selected regional specialties, the strategy of sustainable development and the process of connections, which has been chosen as a method of identifying paths of research in defined area. The result show that innovative projects for sustainable development strategy can be implemented using selected elements of data cloud computing, which would allow in the future strategy building in the cities based on selected categories of technologies and taking coherent actions in the area of innovative projects. The concept combines a variety of innovative technologies, where the outputs of one system are inputs of another. Further research is also required to develop appropriate measurement criteria for determining the effectiveness of strategies. The concept defined its main components, and outlines future directions to improve it.