Abstract
The implementation of sustainability in urban spaces has been studied for many years in different countries. Sustainability means maintaining a certain ecological status enabling longevity and durability. However, in the case of smart cities, sustainability is supported by information communication technology (ICT) adoption and implementation. In this paper, authors focus on metropolis architecture modeling and recommend positive experiences gathered by municipalities in different countries. The collected experiences and good practices concern ICT implementation for sustainable metropolis management. Authors formulated an original Model of Metropolis Ecosystem Architecture in the ArchiMate language. This model preparation required literature review and studies on ICT implementation opportunities for urban governance. The Metropolis Ecosystem Architecture Model (MEAM) is to support strategic planning and ICT eco-innovation management in the Silesian Metropolis. This significant model emphasized the metropolis stakeholders’ interests combined with ICT solutions.
Highlights
The principal investigation questions were formulated as follows: Research Question 1 (RQ1): What information and communication technologies (ICT)-connected challenges are faced by metropolises during the urban sustainability strategy realization?
The previous studies of smart sustainable city development by Huovila et al [74] showed the difficulties to describe the indicators which can be used to characterize smart sustainable city, and due to smart sustainable city concept of International Telecommunication Union Recommendation ITU-T Y.4900-X [75], this study shows a smart sustainable city as an innovative city that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve efficiency of urban environment based on a plenty of different factors [76,77], developing in different domains of “soft” and “hard” ICT
The principal study in the paper was conducted due to two research questions: RQ1: What ICT-connected challenges are faced by metropolises during the urban sustainability strategy realization? and Research Question 2 (RQ2): How are ICT applications developed in sustainable smart connected cities or metropolises?
Summary
The rapid increase of urbanization formulates new challenges and creates new problems, such as insufficient fresh water supply, unreliable transportation, overcrowded cities and roads, and limited access to medical, cultural, and educational services, creating pressure on the natural environment or environment degradation. Metropolis is defined as a consortium of towns and communities closely located and having joint metropolitan problems. Metropolises implement modern ICT solutions to improve the life of citizens as well as to support investors, visitors, tourists, and other metropolis stakeholders. Metropolises develop transport infrastructure, freight transit, car-sharing systems, and autonomous electric vehicles to reduce the use of private automobiles without compromising mobility [1]. There are many different individual and autonomous local initiatives and solutions created by residents and business units, i.e., bike-renting systems, roof gardens, and honey production on private house roofs
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