The history of technology is not very reliable, so it would be nave to assume that the potential consequences of technology are only possible.
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The lives of urban dwellers are covered by various devices. Sensors, big data and connected devices are making people in urban areas richer and richer in information. Properly accommodated, this will resist a great deal of unfavourable conditions to come.
There are three ways to understand the city. One is to see the level of infrastructure and civic amenities in the city, the other is to see the social coexistence in the city and the third is to know what people think about the city, what they think about the city. Urban planners, town planners, architects, developers and town planners generally take the first route. Sociologists, politicians and economists, anthropologists, psychologists and cultural thinkers all look at the city from a different angle. The poets, the philosophers, the folk music lovers and the creative minded people all have a tendency towards the third way to understand the city. However, it all happened in a straightforward, universal way. But there is another fourth way to understand the city.
The city can also be captured through digitization, artificial intelligence, connected sensors and big data. This is a new way of understanding the tendency of a thing, but even so, the method that we have traditionally adopted is piercing and therefore harmful. Because our approach to town planning is traditional. We have some concrete but framed ideas on what is needed for urban development, what needs to be planned for it, and so on. But in this new method, these dimensions are found to be ineffective. In short, it can change the face of civilization. Her harmful power is limitless. The availability of various digital technologies has made it possible for people to connect with each other in ways that are impossible. As a result, many of the traditional walls of communication have begun to crumble.
This fourth approach to looking at the city has always been referred to as Data Science, Big Data Analytics or the Internet of Things (IoT). At present, these adjectives play a larger role in placement than in the definition of integrated governance. The fact that the issues of urbanization, social engineering, town planning and development have not been developed without the idea of bringing efficiency into a single line and a non-linear structure, underscores the fact that this fourth path is best explored. At the same time, there is a growing tendency to understand that breaking these bonds will create new models of civic stability and resilience. For this we have to find the answers to the following questions: What is civic stability and resilience and what exactly is the fourth way?
Sustainability and flexibility in urban definition and its practical form are two things. One is that the city system should be designed, managed and implemented in such a way that the resources contained in the system are renewable, changing the existing pattern of 'take, build, destroy' to 'reduce, reuse, learn, repair and reproduce'. Do ', will convert to a format based on this principle. This means that the system should be circular without any monolithic business model associated with the city system.
The ideal state of urban sustainability should relate to small-to-large circular economies that have to deal with the things that are involved to produce less waste by minimizing carbon emissions. In short, a carbon-free or low-carbon urban system, which will make more use of biodegradable materials, will have the highest energy efficiency.
The management system of cities should be designed and run in such a way that it can reduce its own shortcomings and make drastic changes in the face of any major calamity in time so that it is in the interest of all. A good thing is that the city will recover quickly from any natural or man-made disaster. Civil stability and flexibility are two sides of the same coin because ultimately their customer is the citizen. The best example of both these concepts is the landfill of Deonar. This is the best example of a 'take, make, destroy' model in waste management. Also, every year during the monsoons, the public transport system in Mumbai stalls due to water logging, which shows the lack of flexibility in the civic management system.
Now to the second question of the bull: the fourth path is made up of five levels. The first level is the foundation. These include standards for sea and underground optical cables, mobile tower networks, Internet protocols, and digital transactions. The second level includes source codes, software infrastructure, and systems in the applications ecosystem. The third level is the business domain, which includes transactions between organizations, companies and citizens. The fourth level consists of smart sensors and virtual and augmented reality tools that are inbuilt or non-built in urban spaces. The fifth level teaches how to separate data points from the other four levels and combine them to create an internal view of urban practices and analyze them. This fifth level is called Data Science, Big Data Analytics or Internet of Things. This same fifth level is also widely known as the Fourth Way. But now, as we have seen, the fourth way is a combination of these five approaches. It is on the basis of this group that the foundations on which the stability and resilience of civic life are built are formed. So what can this actually do?
There are at least three possibilities that could emerge from the fourth way, and if town planners, strategists and community groups boldly adopt them, their inner strengths can be harnessed under the rules of data protection, privacy and utilization that are currently in their infancy. All three of these possibilities depend on the framework of global and national data-related legislation, which can be initiated from within the framework of the utilization policy and from the point of view of diagnostics designed for digital transactions in the public interest.
The first step is to establish sensors, digital and data infrastructure that are needed to create a series of small but interconnected economies, which will revitalize our civic system so that it can move towards a carbon-free state as soon as possible. This would mean re-engineering and restructuring your larger civic system so that data points of resource inputs, system usage, utilization capacity - both crowded and less crowded - could be measured to reduce redundancy and efficiency (especially energy efficiency) and Their group can be useful and helpful when it comes time to make real decisions.
Although the implementation of these methods has started in many large cities, it is not being implemented with a view to creating a business model based on the principles of circular economy. The Swedish Waste to Energy System is a remarkable project and has embarked on its own revival towards the principles of a circular economy. Each neighbor has access to sensors, data systems, software, and algorithms that make it clear how much waste was generated and how much was separated, how much of it could be recycled, or how much was re-sent to the recycling economy.
This data also shows the amount of waste burned for power generation, including waste used for both power generation and heat generation. This data can be analyzed at the national level or even at the domestic level. Such simultaneous globalization and descriptiveness can lead to the creation of a unique business model of waste collection and classification, which can be used for the welfare of different communities. Because through this experiment, this model can take root and create its own existence in the community and from that, the community will be better.
The second is to revive our retail economy, especially to find the source and source of the raw material and the people who produce it. The next important step is to match that product to other parts of the chain, including the people and infrastructure associated with that product, and to show what method was used throughout the process to get the final product to customers. In this kind of revival, all the five levels of the fourth path have to be integrated very clearly and they have to have clear, transparent and direct communication with each other. This means that technologies, such as sensors, digital infrastructure, Internet connections, devices, software systems, and blockchains, should all be interconnected.
The establishment of the blocks of the circular economy, especially the approach to recycling, established and managed and integrated into the current value chain, which is currently monolithic and will be oriented towards the 'take, make and destroy' production, distribution and consumption model, ensures a revival. Getting done will be very challenging.
There are two great examples of this: One is IKEA. IKEA is promoting them by creating stories about the origin of their products. Many IKEA stores in Stockholm have QR codes or barcodes associated with the products. So if you scan the QR code or then download or stream the video, it will tell you what the original source of the product is, where the raw material for the product came from, how it was converted into a finished product and brought to the store. The aim is to create awareness among consumers about the product. The main purpose behind all this process is to explain the extent of carbon consumption in the production process by keeping transparency in the whole process and to provide the right choice to the customers for their choice.
Another example is the Retuna brand. The store is based on the dual principles of recycling and upcycling. The store is on the border of Stockholm. The business model of this store is based on the principle that nothing is wasted and everything is precious. The store appeals to people to submit items they don't want to us. The store processes these wastes and produces salable items. The store then sells the item to customers who really need it or are looking for it. In doing so, Retuna uses state-of-the-art sensors and software systems to track the life of the entire product.
In third place is the creation of a diverse set of integrated models that will tend to revitalize, taking advantage of additional capabilities, especially at the local and hyperlocal levels. These models will be tailored to meet the real needs of communities and groups. This part has not been published much yet and the business models around it are not yet stable. But the basic premise is very strong, and the more software systems are connected to Big Data engines, the more sentiment algorithms, and the more artificial intelligence emerges, the more stable the business model will be.
A good example - if not yet a viable business model - is the demand for local and hyperlocal businesses from start-ups around the world so that they can meet the real needs of communities at the right price. Many integration models are also able to do this because they are integrated with the KYC requirements and KYC is a digital identity system nationally. A good example of this is the Swedish tax system. The Swedish tax structure extends to micro and small enterprises (usually single enterprises) and their relations come directly to the local tax authorities - even in the case of individuals and large organizations - thus helping to meet tax objectives. As a result, new revenue streams are created and local and hyperlocal community business models are sown.
The history of technology is not very promising, so it would be nave to assume that these are just possibilities. But these three possibilities are also real because they are now rooted and will last forever. However, the main question remains: will our town planners stand the test of these possibilities for civic stability and resilience and develop robust, flexible and appropriate regulatory and good governance systems? We have to think about it and answer this question on the same principle.
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