THE CONCEPT OF THE SMART CITY AS AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO RESTORE THE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE OF UKRAINE DURING THE POST-WAR PERIOD

Abstract

Modern information technologies in the world are developing at a very fast pace and gradually cover all spheres of human life. This greatly facilitates and improves a person's life, fills it with new meaning. This is how smart cities are built in developed countries. These are approaches to the management of urban infrastructure, where innovations and breakthrough information technologies allow citizens not only to use resources economically, but also to actively participate in the life and development of their own city. This allows to form a strategy for a successful and competitive future of the city. To date, the concept of a smart city for Ukraine is not the most relevant due to the fact that the country is in the active phase of the war. However, in order to speed up the country's recovery processes in the post-war period, one should reasonably approach the choice of the development strategy that will become the basis for restoring the Ukrainian economy in the near future. A deeper study of the essence of the concept of a smart city has led to the conclusion that this approach can be saving for the weakened economy of Ukraine and create conditions for its future rapid development.
 The paper considers the content of the concept of a smart city and its evolution over time. It has been established that the main components of the successful implementation of the concept of a smart city are the economy, mobility, environment, human capital, life potential and management. The essence of each of the six selected components is detailed. Based on a study of the goals, content and best practices for implementing the concept of a smart city within such developed cities of the world as New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Shanghai, the features of the functioning of successful smart cities in the world are determined. The most successful smart city projects are given, which can become guidelines for the restoration of Ukrainian cities. Taking into account the current global trends in the construction of smart cities and taking into account the Ukrainian geopolitical specifics, the key directions for the restoration of Ukrainian cities in the post-war period are formulated. These areas include security, infrastructure, mobility, healthy life, information and ecology.