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The Smart City Concept in Africa: Case of Zimbabwe

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dc.contributor.author MAGANDE, TINASHE
dc.contributor.author CHIGUDU, ANDREW
dc.contributor.author MABVUNDWI, MIRACLE P
dc.contributor.author HICKONICKO, BEATRICE
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-14T10:03:34Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-14T10:03:34Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Harvard referencing style en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2957-8426
dc.identifier.uri http://10.0.100.40:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2396
dc.description The journal is a forum for the discussion of ideas, scholarly opinions and case studies of multidisciplinary perspectives of design and innovative thinking. The journal is produced bi annually. en_US
dc.description.abstract This article seeks to interrogate the Smart City concept and its relevance to African built environment planning and management. Like many buzzwords of times, the Smart City concept is a notion whose rooting in countries that still lag in terms of development, is an aspect of great concern and requires scrutiny before generalisation. In an ideal environment, free from many ordeals, a Smart City is one that operates like a human machine and in which artificial intelligence has become the motor-generator for urban processes. It is a robotised city, a system whose subsystems speak to each other, communicating for progress. In such a city, the sectors and subsectors are very much interconnected and can be made to modularise or assemble as defined by the purposes of what needs to happen. In such a city, land uses, population mobility, circulation and flows (energy, water, transport, etc) are both centrally and locally coordinated. Developing such a city is a function of deep study of the human and non-human needs over a period, or an artificial superimposition of a system or model learnt elsewhere. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Published by the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University Press en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Kuveza neKuumba - Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University Journal of Design, Innovative Thinking and Practice;Volume 1 Issues(1&2), November 2022
dc.subject human-machine en_US
dc.subject urban processes en_US
dc.subject urban informality en_US
dc.subject planning en_US
dc.title The Smart City Concept in Africa: Case of Zimbabwe en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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