Smart city planning and sustainable development

Abstract

The development of the concept of the city as a result of technological developments and changes is taking place in the modern era, the concept of smart cities has emerged and cities are linking their technological policies and development plans to achieve development while linking the objectives and dimensions of sustainable development to provide the best possible benefit from the available technological possibilities.The research aimed at shedding light on the practical potential of smart cities in the process of sustainable development of cities with the application to the Iraqi city of Basra. The study examined the concept of smart cities and their characteristics and components, as well as the concept of sustainable development and its dimensions while studying some of the international experiences for the establishment and transformation of smart cities (Dakota, Dubai / Mecca). The study also conducted a case study for the city of Basra and how to transform it into a smart city through a set of mechanisms, namely, the existence of intelligent objectives and strategies through which to develop a vision for the city of Basra. And building applications that help transform government services and life into an e-government system by developing the city’s ICT infrastructure, building citizens’ capacities and deploying smart applications, helping to implement the city’s e-heritage proposition. The research has reached a set of conclusions and recommendations. The communication infrastructure is the mainstay of smart cities, but it is not enough to create a smart city without the other elements (citizen, management, economy, environment, and living). The smart city is not only urban, The smart city consists of four basic components (networks - databases - applications - citizen), the smart city meets all the concepts of sustainability, and therefore the transformation of smart cities is an implicit transformation of green cities sustainable and environmentally friendly, The development of existing cities to intelligent cities depends on their available infrastructure and then develop mechanisms to develop them in order to reach a communications infrastructure capable of implementing the characteristics of smart cities. The cities studied in the experiments identified basic goals for the transformation of intelligence such as Makah, the basic principle is to develop the city’s Hajj system. Thus, each city can set the main objective in which to formulate a vision to identify priority projects. In the process of development, the transformation of cities into smart cities requires the development of vision, goals, and strategies translated into projects. Structure (Intelligent - intelligent infrastructure - intelligent environment - smart living), the strategic plan of the Ministry of Communications in Iraq can be used to develop the urban communications infrastructure and integrate applications Targeted within the smart applications of these cities as a major support in turning cities into smart cities.