Innovative and smart city: A theoretical study of adaptive solutions for sustainable solar urban districts

Abstract

This paper is a theoretical study of governing solar urban districts using the smart city system. It first presents the major theme of the sustainable urban future, points out the position of the solar energy in urban sustainable development. Then it presents the opportunities and challenges of the solar energy system, states that the innovation of technology from both the soft side and the hard side are the key points for governing the solar urban districts. The paper also shows the relationship between innovation, economies, and social sustainable development. Finally, the paper presents the smart city system as an innovative system. It needs to govern the solar urban district from all aspects (including but not limited to public services, city administration, and management, economy, pro-business environment, built environment and city infrastructure, natural environment and ecological sustainability). The lifecycle thinking and the GUUD model can be used to analyse and monitor the system. However, managing those fragment elements is not that simple. One of the challenges of integrating a smart city system is to build a connection between fragmental elements and make individual islands communicate with each other in order to achieve common goals.