INTRODUCTION TO SECTION 8: Smart sustainable city initiative and its social and economic implications

Abstract

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Section eight of the book considers the various impacts of deploying new technologies in cities around the Pacific Rim. It maps smart city initiatives in different social, economic, and political contexts in the Pacific Rim. The book then examines smart city concepts, and emerging disruptive technologies have been extensively deployed to tackle various urban issues since the 1990s and focuses on how the smart sustainable concept is utilised in the context of Jakarta, Indonesia. It also investigates how the emerging digital economy potentially transforms land use, resulting in the transformation of socio-economic relations in contemporary cities. The book provides an understanding of the impacts of digital platforms – which are the results of and simultaneously the solutions to economic crises – on urban patterns and land use planning in both the global and local context of New Zealand.