Abstract
Abstract. More than half of the total world’s population lives in urban areas, and it is expected that 66% of all them will live in urban areas by 2050. The population growth and continuing urbanization in the world cause many social, economic, technical, and organizational problems related to transportation, businesses, communication networks, services, and utilities that can risk the cities’ economic and environmental sustainability. Recently, a smart city concept has been developed to provide a solution to improve citizens’ quality of life in urban areas with the adoption of smart and digital technologies and infrastructure for energy, water, mobility, buildings, and government. The smart city concept considers “zero vision” that refers to the use of smart city technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Internet of Things (IoT) tools, to minimize negative impacts (i.e., zero traffic accident, zero CO2 emission, zero waste, zero crime) in the cities. However, the research in this zero-vision approach mainly focused on transportation and energy. Urban forestry and urban vegetated areas in the cities inherently provide benefits such as reducing air pollution, urban heat island effects, and flood risk and increasing the water quality, aesthetic value, and value of the property that improve citizens’ quality of life. The smart city concept switched towards to sustainable smart city concept that takes into account the services provided by urban forestry and urban vegetation. In this study, the shifts in the smart city concept towards the sustainable smart city, the role of the urban forestry and urban vegetation in this shift was presented. Also, ICTs and IoT tools specifically designed for monitoring, assessing, and managing urban forestry and urban vegetation was reviewed.
Highlights
Today, it has been reported by the UN that more than half of the population in the world lives in urban areas (United Nations, 2015)
When the term first was used in the 1990s, it was alternatively replaced with the digital city, wired city, cyber city, or intelligent city, which mainly focused on the importance of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet of Thing (IoT) along with modern infrastructures within cities
This paper presented the importance and benefits of urban forestry and urban greening and how it can incorporate into the smart city concept
Summary
It has been reported by the UN that more than half of the population in the world lives in urban areas (United Nations, 2015). The cities generate about 80% of Global Gross Domestic Product (GPD); they consume around 70% of the global energy usage and produce 70-80% of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission that causes climate change (Lee et al, 2014; Sethi, 2015; Okai et al, 2018; Silva et al, 2018) This causes different kinds of social, economic, technical, and organizational problems that can risk the cities’ economic and environmental sustainability (Neirotti et al, 2013; Yigitcanlar, 2015; Mundoli et al, 2017; Russo and Cirella, 2018).
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