what do you mean by sociology of smart city
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In essence, a smart city concept is about improving citizens' lives (Thompson 2016; World Economic Forum 2018). A smart city means Big Data collection and data governance with the IoT and AI.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as any new lethal pandemic, before mass vaccination can be
restrained only by the limitation of contacts between people, which makes the digital economy with
online services a key condition for survival. Many cities have already transformed into “smart” digital /
virtual habs in which the most of services are provided online with limitations of citizen contacts. Data
governance and digital services make city life safe without an economy lockout and unemployment.
Around 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and according to the United Nations urban
population will rise up to 68% by 2050 (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2018).
Thus more than half of the world population will be cover by “smart” cybernetics online governance of
their daily life. The “father” of cybernetics Norbert Wiener in 1948 was the first who emphasized that
future society governance in the technology world must be based on humanistic values (2000). Such a
new phenomenon in the life of society as smart cities poses new challenges to sociology and must give
new opportunities to solve modern problems, boost humanistic values, and withstand a wide range of
threats.
The future of urban sociology was comprehensively discussed at the joint session of the British and
American Sociological Associations in 2001. It was declared that urban sociology faces a variety of
challenges with expanding of numerous issues and themes (Perry and Harding 2002). From the scattered
topics investigated within the urban sociology, scientific discourse is more and more shifting to t