Abstract
This article addresses the integration of cultural perspectives in the smart city discourse and in the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030; it does so specifically with respect to land patterns and land use. We hope to increase the ability of relevant stakeholders, including scientific communities working in that field, to handle the complexity of the current urban challenges. Culture is understood here in the broadest sense of the word, including the values and conceptualizations of the world, and the modes of technological creation and control of the environment. This concept of culture varies among stakeholders, depending, in particular, on their activities, on the place they live in, and also depending on their scientific background. We propose to complement existing targets that are explicitly related to culture in the UN and UNESCO agendas for 2030, and introduce a target of culture awareness for city information infrastructures. We show that, in the specific case of land patterns and land use, these new targets can be approached with historical data. Our analysis of the related core functionalities is based on interviews with practitioners, draws on insights from the humanities, and takes into account the readiness of the existing technologies.
Highlights
Making cities more inclusive and sustainable is a widely acknowledged necessity
An especially challenging task is to document the scope of the derived knowledge and how it can be extended to other places [7], as the produced knowledge is aimed at being disseminated as longitudinal knowledge outside the original community
This paper proposes a formalization of that vision, with contributions that come from the different disciplines of the authors, and it develops a specific target of culture awareness and a LandUseWheel framework that can help information infrastructure move towards this target
Summary
Making cities more inclusive and sustainable is a widely acknowledged necessity. In. Our first hypothesis is that it is possible to improve the adoption and prioritization of this somewhat general objective, by defining a shareable and concrete target that is related to it We propose that this new target can be defined for the digital representations of the city through data, which is implicit and transversal to all the SDGs, as well as to the smart city approaches. The LandUseWheel summarizes the required functionalities to achieve culture awareness of city land use information infrastructures, based on historical data. Following a brief description of the context of this research and of the field of smart cities, we define our proposed target for information infrastructures culture awareness and explain the specific focus on land use. The section that follows presents the first results on the integration of historical data in city information infrastructures, to progress towards the target of the LandUseWheel
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