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Analysis of urban smart infrastructures using the urban living lab approach; case study: Zanjan city
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Seyed Amir Hosein Garakani   , Jafar Mahdioun * , Majid Hazrati |
| department of urban planning, faculty of architecture and urban planning, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran , dr.jafarm@gmail.com |
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Abstract: (611 Views) |
Objective: The concept of a smart city, based on integration, innovation and technological and digital infrastructures, has been proposed to make the city smarter and use available resources more efficiently. This concept, through the expansion of research based on the urban living lab approach in the form of the use of virtual reality, the use of big data and other technological issues, promises to bring smart cities to a new phase of urban planning, focusing on collective intelligence and smart citizens, and technology is the only tool to harness this capital in cities. Thus, smart urban planning based on living labs is mainly innovative and participatory, where citizens and urban stakeholders in general act not only as sources of information, but also as testers, developers and designers of innovations based on justice with others in living labs.
Method: The research method in this article is of a structural-interpretive type. Data is collected through surveys and library research. The statistical population of the research is in the form of an elite panel of 30 urban planning experts selected by snowball sampling. For data analysis, the grounded theory method was used with the help of Max Quda software, and the structural equation model with the least squares technique was used with the help of SmartPLS.3 software.
Results: Based on the findings of the research using the grounded theory approach, smart urban planning can be examined through 6 components: "social equity; productivity; infrastructure; environment; information and communication technology; quality of life". Meanwhile, based on the structural equation model, the somatization of Zanjan city is most influenced by the productivity structure with a standard beta coefficient of 4.85 and the infrastructure structure with a standard beta coefficient of 4.83. Based on path analysis, the highest impact coefficient of somatization is related to the social justice index with a path coefficient of 0.341 and the lowest impact is related to the information technology index with a coefficient of 0.130.
Conclusions: As a result, the somatization of the city of Zanjan requires the achievement of a coherent mechanism in the field of strengthening the information technology infrastructure and increasing the productivity of the existing infrastructure. |
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| Keywords: urban smartization, urban living lab, data-based theory, Zanjan city |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
عمران و شهرسازی
Received: 2023/10/7 | Accepted: 2024/12/11 | Published: 2024/12/18
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