"This (Smart) Town Ain't Big Enough": Smart Small Towns and Digital Twins for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04819v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 09:20:12 GMT
• Title: "This (Smart) Town Ain't Big Enough": Smart Small Towns and Digital Twins for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development
• Authors: Gabriela Viale Pereira, Lukas Daniel Klausner, Lucy Temple, Thomas Delissen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Torsten Priebe
• Abstract summary: Digital twins can support policymakers in developing smart, sustainable solutions for cities and regions. The project SCiNDTiLA aims to define the state-of-the-art in the field of smart cities.
• Score: 1.7349132949643813
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: One of the major challenges today lies in the creation of governance concepts for regional development that not only promote growth but, at the same time, ensure promotion of inclusiveness, fairness, and resilience. Digital twins can support policymakers in developing smart, sustainable solutions for cities and regions and, therefore, urban and non-urban environments. The project SCiNDTiLA (Smart Cities aNd Digital Twins in Lower Austria) aims to define the state-of-the-art in the field of smart cities, identify interdependencies, critical components and stakeholders, and provide a roadmap for smart cities with application to both smaller-scale urban and non-urban environments. SCiNDTiLA uses the foundations of complexity theory and computational social science methods to model Austrian towns and regions as smart cities/regions and thus as systems of socio-technical interaction to guide policy decision-making toward sustainable development.

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