Smart City Development

In the notable book, the Triumph of the City, cities are portrayed as humanity's greatest invention and the best hope for our future. Rapid urbanization has presented an unparalleled opportunity to lift billions out of poverty. Meanwhile, this explosive growth along with the aging issues has also raised enormous concerns on environmental ecosystem, social inequality and human development. Traditional city development pattern which relied heavily on the extensive way of resources use since industrial revolution, with the result of resource scarcity and low would-be of urban function promoting have been the problems that people are suffering a lot to overcome in the 21st century. 'Smart growth', ‘sustainable development', 'human capital’ have

As a new model of urbanization, smart city is to regard technology as part of a holistic and services-oriented approach to invigorating cities. Even though the definition “smart city” is still relatively narrative, the development of a smart city can vary significantly regarding the approach that is taken depending on policymaking and local contexts for the urban growth of the city (Chourabi, 2012). A substantial body of definitions for the concept “smart city” has been existed in the literature review. One of the most widely accepted definitions is proposed by Bakici, Wareham & Almirall (2013) who outlined smart cities as “cities that employ information and communication technologies (ICT) with the aim to increase the life quality of their residents while in line to sustainable development” . Drawn from this distinguished definition, we can see that ICT plays a central role in making a city more adjusted to the currently transforming needs of its people. Some other definitions of smart cities might not put such an emphasis on the key role supported by ICT, nevertheless many definitions include a certain indications to the significance of ICT for leading contemporary cities to identify and meet the needs of citizens. For instance, Caragliu, Bo, & Nijkamp (2009) consider cities as smart when “investments in human and social capital and traditional (transportation) and modern (ICT-led)

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Communication of China, by the end of 2013, there were nearly 1.2 billion mobile phone users and more than 640 million internet users and 3.5 million websites in China (Figure 3). Until 2014, China has become the world's largest mobile phone market. Consequently, the promotion of internet usage and digital technology was started in a range of social sectors including public service delivery, governmental operations and administration, cities management and information disclosure. Additionally, a lot of attentions has been paid to accelerating the development of E-education: schools are actively promoting the computer and internet technology use for remote education; construction and operation of the infrastructure for the information industry has been enhanced; and the development of the software industry and integrated circuit industry have been fully supported by the Chinese government both financially and politically; Wide-band and high-speed transmission networks are being developed and upgraded. In the midst of so many citizens now using mobile devices, cities are able to easily identified the needs of the citizens and then deliver who, how and when the personalized services