Lecture

Barcelona's Smart City Evolution

Graph Chat

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

Description

This lecture discusses the evolution of Barcelona as a Smart City over the past decade, highlighting the transition from a technology-driven approach to a citizen-centered one. The speaker, Irene Compte, emphasizes the importance of integrating existing innovations, introducing new technologies, and fostering citizen participation. Additionally, the lecture explores Barcelona's vision for the future, focusing on key aspects such as openness, democracy, and innovation. The practical challenges of managing this transition process, including financing, procurement, and citizen engagement, are also addressed. Furthermore, insights into European smart city initiatives, particularly the 'Grow Smarter' project, are shared, showcasing collaborative efforts across cities to promote sustainability and efficiency.

In MOOC

Smart Cities, Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures

The introduction of Smart urban technologies into legacy infrastructures has resulted in numerous challenges and opportunities for contemporary cities and will continue to do so. This course will help you to understand how to make the best of these smart technologies in your cities’ legacy infrastructures. Over the past few years, advances in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly challenged the traditionally stable land scape of urban infrastructure service provision. Thi

Official source

Related concepts (20)

Urbanism

Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, a profession focusing on the design and management of urban areas, and urban sociology, an academic field which studies urban life. Many architects, planners, geographers, and sociologists investigate the way people live in densely populated urban areas. There is a wide variety of different theories and approaches to the study of urbanism.

New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies. New Urbanism attempts to address the ills associated with urban sprawl and post-Second World War suburban development.

Sustainable urbanism

Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them (urbanism), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall well-being of both people and place. Well-being includes the physical, ecological, economic, social, health and equity factors, among others, that comprise cities and their populations.

Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity realizing or redistributing value". Others have different definitions; a common element in the definitions is a focus on newness, improvement, and spread of ideas or technologies.

Urban design

Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban design considers 'bigger picture' issues of economic, social and environmental value and social design. The scope of a project can range from a local street or public space to an entire city and surrounding areas.

Related lectures (64)

Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism Beyond Engineering

Delves into the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, proposing innovative urbanization strategies for the post-carbon era.

History and Theory of the Environment: Introduction

Introduces the course 'History and Theory of the Environment' and discusses the importance of studying environmental issues and landscapes for a sustainable future.

Urban Resilient Territories: Challenges and Solutions

Delves into the challenges and successes of building resilient urban territories in alignment with planetary boundaries.

Post-carbon XL-M-S Manifesto

Explores the post-carbon XL-M-S manifesto, showcasing the variability of post-carbon issues across different scales and transitions in projects.

Digitalization and Performance of Cities MOOC: Smart Cities, Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures