Abstract
The transformation of cities into smarter and more sustainable environments is essential towards achieving the objectives of the decarbonization of the economy. In this sense, holistic strategies are required to design and implement urban regeneration strategies. The EU-funded REMOURBAN project has developed an Urban Regeneration Model which provides the mechanisms to implement more efficiently these processes, integrating technologies, business models, management procedures and evaluation mechanisms, where the evaluation is sought as the main supporting mechanism throughout the various phases of the city transformation process. The framework developed considers two levels of evaluation: city level, to assess both sustainability and smartness of the city as a whole from a comprehensive and integrated perspective, and project level, to provide a clear identification of the impact of implementation of technologies and solutions on three key priority areas (sustainable districts and built environment, sustainable urban mobility and integrated infrastructures and processes) aimed at achieving the city high-level goals. This paper introduces the Urban Regeneration Model and describes the evaluation framework and its implementation in the city of Valladolid (Spain).
Highlights
Global population living in cities is increasing every year, so urban development and optimization is a challenge that has been explicitly considered as one of the 17 Goals to Transform Our World included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) (Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) defined by the United Nations [1]
SustaInabiLity Evaluation Tool (STILE) was conceived as the service to support, automate and help to achieve the objectives set out in the evaluation framework
When an evaluation is launched, STILE takes the set of monitored variables stored in the Global information and communication technologies (ICTs) Platform for that city and the corresponding time period
Summary
Global population living in cities is increasing every year, so urban development and optimization is a challenge that has been explicitly considered as one of the 17 Goals to Transform Our World included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) (Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) defined by the United Nations [1] In addition to this specific goal, cities can contribute to achieve other SDGs. In addition to this specific goal, cities can contribute to achieve other SDGs To achieve these Goals, new policies shall be implemented to promote the economic and social development by improving the quality of life of citizens, taking care of the environment and optimizing the use of natural resources. In the current technology-based society, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can, and should, play a key role for improving sustainability on cities In this context, the concepts of “smart” and “sustainable” have been used interchangeably, but they are not synonymous: sustainability is a goal per se but smartness (intelligence or the use of technologies in cities) is a means for sustainability. When both concepts are combined, a “smart sustainable city” is obtained, which can be defined in the following way according to UNECE-ITU [2]:
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