The Technological Integration of Digital City and Ecological City — Take Sino-Finland Gongqing DigiEcoCity as an Example

Abstract:

In recent years the tide of interest in ecocities is rising in China. The symbiotic integration of digital city and ecological city is the new model of urban development in the future. Gongqing DigiEcoCity is a strategic cooperation project between China and Finland to improve the living environment and build an ecological civilization. The paper defines the concept of DigiEcoCity and the practice of Gongqing DigiEcoCity supported by Finland in technology. Further, the paper explores the technological integration of digital city and ecocity from three aspects: Digi-concepts, Eco-concepts, City-concepts. Especially, the scalable, localisable and replicable Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Gongqing DigiEcoCity planning are put forward and discussed to testify its ecological suitability and livability. The paper argues that Gongqing DigiEcoCity is a model for an ideal city combining the principles of sustainable development, the innovations by the digital revolution and the urban functions necessary for providing a framework of good everyday life. The paper also argues that the concept of developing digiecocity requires not only the successful completion of a project and planning, but also the long-term maintenance in the practice and their acceptance by the public.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 689)
• Pages: 509-513
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.689.509
• Online since: May 2013
• Authors: Qi Yong Yang, Xin Hua Zhang, Chun Yuan Tao, Ying Xiang Wang, Tommila Mauri
• Keywords: Digital City, Ecocity, Environmental Protection Technology, Gongqing DigiEcoCity, Urban Planning

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