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Supporting sustainability through smart infrastructures: the case for the city of Amsterdam

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  • Ger Baron
  • Joost Brinkman
  • Ivo Wenzler

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With more than half the world's population living in densely populated cities, cities are the best platform to share energy, ideas and enthusiasm to build a movement towards a more sustainable future, enabled by a new generation of grids. Some of the key questions are how to create initiatives with substantial impact to reach sustainable energy and carbon reduction goals, how can cities mobilise their inhabitants to sense the urgency and take action, and how can cities mobilise businesses to realise technologies that support the energy transition. Together with local grid operator, the City of Amsterdam recognised this challenge. The programme Amsterdam Smart City is designed around a continuously growing innovative alliance of partners, containing both public and private parties from all different sectors, focusing on four areas (sustainable living, working, mobility and public space), and all enabled by intelligent technologies like smart meter or smart grid technology.

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  • Ger Baron & Joost Brinkman & Ivo Wenzler, 2012. "Supporting sustainability through smart infrastructures: the case for the city of Amsterdam," International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(2/3), pages 169-177.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijcist:v:8:y:2012:i:2/3:p:169-177
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    1. Ioannis Vardopoulos & Maria Papoui-Evangelou & Bogdana Nosova & Luca Salvati, 2023. "Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-26, February.
    2. Negar Noori & Thomas Hoppe & Martin de Jong, 2020. "Classifying Pathways for Smart City Development: Comparing Design, Governance and Implementation in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-24, May.

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