For the Depok 'Smart City' case,
inequality in regional development is in the spotlight. One of the concerns of
the public at this time is that the government is considered to have created a
development gap in Depok with the 'Margonda-Centrist' paradigm. The people of
Depok often open various suggestions for negotiations with the local government
through complaints submitted both in the media and the Depok City government
portal, so that this inequality issue needs further attention and focus. It is
known that Margonda City, which is located in Beji District, Depok, is one of
the cities that is used as a business and education center. With an area of
14.56 KM, Beji City is relatively small compared to other areas, some of which
are larger than the Beji area. However, in Margonda, Beji, Depok, it was
recorded that around 24.96% of the development of trade and service activities
was concentrated in the downtown axis on Jalan Margonda Raya in the form of
wholesale and retail trade which became the second largest contributor to the
total regional economy. The existence of this inequality has shifted one of the
'Smart City' concepts, one of which is Smart Living, which is related to a
healthy environment, community security, guaranteed happiness, and the ratio of
income inequality. It will be the duty of the Depok city government to continue
to improve in implementing Depok City to become a city that has sustainable
development for its people.
As an expert explained about why
smart city is important?
Smart Cities are in
particular focusing on the implementation of new technologies with the purpose
to tackle urban challenges like climate change, urban competitiveness and other
problems of sustainable development. During the last years the ways of
collecting data, of computing and using big data and of communicating evidence
had been improved significantly. Smart Cities show a wide range of new technical
facilities and services which are the outcome of specific concepts of
innovation and urban planning approaches.
With respect to urban transformation processes
coping with mentioned challenges, technical innovations are important. They
enable the realization of energy efficiency, reduction of energy use or
mitigation of emissions. At the same time technically-driven transformation
processes in mobility conditions and communication are supporting the
attractivity of cities. Smart cities very often claim to provide a ‘better
life’ and sustainable development. In front of these developments it becomes
obvious that technical innovations play a crucial role but at the same time we
can assume a mutual relation with specific approaches of urban planning beyond
such transformation processes.
The main objective of this contribution is to
elaborate these different concepts of innovation and the corresponding role of
urban planning. Based on a short description of the technical core of a Smart
City which enables a more comprehensive data collecting, a more precise
analysis of bigger and better integrated data sets and a faster communication,
three different forms of innovation and their mutual relation with planning
approaches are elaborated.
POLICY RECOMMENDATION 1. The
importance of the Depok city government to focus on the development of
education and business policies with the extensification of the potential of
each Depok area. 2. Make a policy of equitable distribution of infrastructure
that is spread throughout the city of Depok along with the potential of each
region. 3. Opening a forum of negotiation with the regional heads/ key leaders
of each Depok City, in this case at the camat level, to provide various proposals
for the potential extensification program of the region, both geographically
and human resources.
References:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-68028-2_2
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