Automation...

The main target for "smart"ing things is to maximize the automation.

So the people is in the loop, the people is the foundation for smart city, but we need to control and observe things to help people to elevate their life quality. This is the main goal of automation.

We need smart people to create smart cities. As well as social people to raise awareness of the importance of smart cities to improve the quality of our lives, and to create innovative new generations.

1-The topic Smart City has been spreading in the urban strategy projects undertaken by

governments across the globe. This is especially prevalent in the advanced countries,

observed in cities namely London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Brazil. The citizens

started to demand from their governments the provision of urban spaces designed to

improve their quality of life, introduction of technological innovation to reduce

negative environmental impacts, and effective reduction of pollution levels through

the wise management of natural resources. In other words, the concerned

governments initiated investment in sustainable economic development.

2-Cocchia indicates that there is a large variation between the Academic View and Empirical

View about Smart Cities. This difference relates to the main components of a Smart City:

 In the Academic Vision, it considers intellectual capital the most crucial factor to raise the

smartness of a city. The concept of intellectual capital incorporates a wide-ranging

meaning. It includes:-

o The culture of citizens: their educational level, their intellectual capability.

We and cities always need smart and social people. Smart cities can help to integrate these people to cities' live, developments. I do agree with #Alaa Osman in the fact that smart cities' concept is mainly not only convert cities in futuristic technology parks but to put on a sustainable development orbit by innovation with partcipation of the whole local comminity. Smart and less smart people together.

Interesting conversation, Muhammad Saqib! I leave you and other participants with a food for thought stirred by reflective statement of the late American civil rights activist and clergyman, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) to wit that:

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” However, and gratefully so, the European perspective of smart city (comprising of Smart Governance, Smart Living, Smart Economy, Smart People, and Smart Environment) did not entirely live out people and the way they live!

Cities can not be smart, the people can make cities smart!

A smart city is a humane place that has marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare (Khan, S.A, 2018). As stated by VRABIE (2018), “Creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and smart technologies are the ingredients of smart city, however, missing the important and critical role of people here. I agree with you all, smart people can make the smart cities and we need to have smart people.

From the Actor-Network Theory (Latour, Callon), we need both, human and non-human actors to become smart ... that is way e.g. regulations act to move people ..

I beg your pardon, Sadiq and all commentators. Just to convey this Call for Paper on Smart City - 4th International Conference on 'Urban e-Planning'  - IJEPR 2019 Conference - being convened by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning University of Lisbon, Portugal [https://sites.google.com/view/uep2019-conference/home]. I sincerely hope this is useful news and that this interesting but kindling debate of ours can somehow extend to IJEPR 2019.

Smart people build smart cities. Or put in another way, smart cities are designed for smart people. In Lagos Nigeria and largely Africa, governments have been busy making the cities smart but the citizens are not get smart to use some of those smart features. Eg E-payments for tax, electricity, water, etc and smart cards for the BRT bus system in Lagos have failed due to low patronage, the people still prefer the outdated system of taking transport to the service providers offices, queue up in the rain and sun, just to pay for things they can do via their smart phones!!! How smart and Techie are even the lecturers and teachers in some regions. So I strongly advocate for SMART PEOPLE, SMART PLANNING SMART CITIES........and the framework should be cyclical, smart cities will them make people smarter and smarter people will them make smarter plans and smarter plans will make smarter cities. Smarter cities will market the smartest people ams the smartest people will make the smartest plans and the smartest plans will make the smartest cities.

Smart cities are created/formed by people. In the last decades, concepts and models of smart cities have related to the planning process (tactics & strategies) to efficiently employ the advantages of information and communication technologies, which improve the quality of citizens' life and the government performance.

Neither this, nor that one alone, but both are necessary for each other.

We need smart cities, and smart people to live in these cities. Because if we give a smartphone to someone who does not know how to use it, it will not be able to use any of its features. So, as we design smart cities, we need to train the smart people to live in these cities.

People are considered to be the smart driving force in the city if, if we have intelligent communities, cities will certainly have to be persuaded.

My thesis is that in the world of modern technologies we are increasingly striving to improve communication in various spheres. Children are different in the world of technology and therefore our goal is intelligent economic and social solutions.

Smart Society and People is a integral part of Smart Cities. Winters (2010) found that a smart city is a hub of higher education and skilled workforces. He further mentioned that the smart places are getting smarter while other places getting less smart as smart places attract the creative people and workers. The smart city concept can also be seen as a large integrated system which stresses on the organic integration of systems and the interrelationship between a smart city’s core systems make a smart city.

Hello Aruditya. That's an interesting perspective! Could you please avail us the full reference of Winter (2010)? Thanks in anticipation.

Winters, John. Why are smart cities growing? Who moves and who stays. Baltimore, Journal of Regional Science, 2010.

Victor Udemezue Onyebueke

Thanks, Aruditya!