Smart Cities in Poland Towards sustainability and a better quality of life?

• Main Authors: Jonek-Kowalska, Izabela, Wolniak, Radosław
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Subjects: Architectural structure and design; Architecture; Cee; central and eastern europe; City and town planning: architectural aspects; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Eastern Europe Cities; Environmental Issues; Environmental policy and protocols; Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design; infrastructure; Interdisciplinary studies; IoT; Landscape; Landscape architecture and design; Local Data Bank; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Personal and public health / health education; PLN; Polish Cities; polish smart cities; Politics and government; Provincial Cities; Public health and preventive medicine; quality management; quality of life; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional and area planning; smart cities; Smart City Concept; Smart City Development; Smart City Projects; Smart City Solutions; Smart City Strategies; Smart City Sustainability; Smart Environment; Smart Governance; Smart Mobility; Society and Social Sciences; Sustainability; Sustainability & Green Design; sustainable development; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Telecommunication; The Arts; The environment; Urban & Land Use Planning; Urban and municipal planning and policy; urban development; urban planning; Urban QOL
• ISBN: 1032412488; 1000935396; 9781032414621; 9781032412481; 9781000935394; 1003358195; 1032414626; 9781003358190
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003358190

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concept has been gaining popularity in recent years, with supporters considering it to be an effective tool to improve the quality of life of the city’s residents. In turn, opponents argue that it is a source of imbalance and claim that it escalates the problems of social and economic exclusion. This book, therefore, assesses the quality of life and its unsustainability in Central and Eastern European cities within the context of the Smart City concept and from the perspective of key areas of sustainable development. Using case studies of selected cities in Central and Eastern Europe and representative surveysof Polish cities, this book illustrates the process of creating smart cities and their impact on improving the quality of life of citizens. Specifically, this book investigates the conditions that a Smart City has to meet to become sustainable, how the Smart City concept can support the improvement of the residents’ quality of life and how Central and Eastern European countries create smartcity solutions. Containing both theoretical and practical content, this book will be of relevance to researchers and students interested in smart cities and urban planning, as well as city authorities and city stakeholders who are planning to implement the Smart City concept. Chapter 2 and 6 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.