Planning Instruments for Climate Smart and Wise Cities: A Spatial, Green and Digital Deal Approach

Abstract

The Smart City Council defines a smart city as one that has simple, easy, and practical digital technology embedded across all city functions. Though cities and communities around the world have elaborated a variety of climate actions and plans, their development and implementation often follow a project-based approach with no network connections between projects. Climate smart and wise cities extends the concept and approach of smart cities to include the diverse dimensions of climate actions in a holistic manner. This chapter describes how climate smart and wise cities can support climate actions with a variant of the New Urbanism called the climate smart and wise urbanism., which is intended to be more climate-oriented and nature-based. The chapter argues that our task now is to mainstream climate city planning into urban planning and development policy. The contents of this chapter include new issues and solutions for climate emergency which need a new tenet of planning, a conceptual framework, and key components of the planning system for integrated climate smart and wise cities, planning procedure, and planning methodology. The models include holistic planning models, sub-system planning models, and sectoral dynamic platform models with the use of automation and Internet control system technology development.