Towards An Achieving A Smart Environmental City: A Case Study from Aqaba- Jordan

Abstract

There is a global trend towards transforming cities into a "smart city" where many countries and governments have begun to implement smart city strategies in their cities due to the many urban challenges and problems facing cities these days, and traditional methods are no longer able to address these problems, so the need arose a new comprehensive system capable of making the city flexible and resilient to challenges through the use of a comprehensive "smart city curriculum" curriculum. In this context, the city of Aqaba was chosen as a study area and we noticed that it obviously suffers from the effects of climate change on it. We then tried to concentrate on developing a methodology aimed at achieving an environmentally smart city and making it more capable of making the city of high quality with a best use of natural resources. The paper also aims to identify the indicators of smart city in the urban environment of Aqaba city that have an impact on smart city factors through a qualitative questionnaire and interviews with specialists working in urban planning sectors in Aqaba. Therefore, the paper comes out with the applications and programs for the environment dimension that must be achieved in Aqaba in order to become a smart city environmentally. The paper presents a set of strategies that come out from the problems which are inferenced from the below study to be used by planners, urban designers and architects in the planning process in Aqaba in order to achieve the environmental dimension, therefore promote the smartness and quality of life for citizens.

Keywords: Smart City, Sustainable, Smart Environment, Aqaba City.

DOI: 10.7176/JETP/12-4-04

Publication date:October 31^st 2022