Abstract
Globally, cities are grappling with rapid urbanization and problems related to resource management, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation. To overcome these challenges, policy makers and academicians are focusing on the idea of smart city. Both developed and developing nations are cooperating and signing memorandum of understanding each other to transform their old and traditional cities into smart cities. India, as a developing country, has also taken a completely new and bold initiative to transform its existing cities structure and make it more modern and sustainable while conserving its core values. India’s smart city mission to create 100 smart cities is a step in this direction. According to Indian Ministry of Urban Development, Allahabad will be one of the future smart cities. The paper is an attempt to assess the current situation of Allahabad city by analyzing various social, economic and urban components and its readiness for smart city transformation. Qualitative and quantitative data is collected from both primary and secondary sources. Multi-criteria decision analysis is used as a method to produce consolidated score against each parameter. Consolidated score enables to understand current status of social, economic, and urban sector in Allahabad city and their contribution toward making smart city. Allahabad has a lot of potential to transform into smart city, but road ahead will not be easy. In many areas complete overhauling is required. To make smart city transformation possible, city officials, academicians, and citizens should cooperate with each other wholeheartedly.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Abbreviations
- UN:
-
United Nations
- GDP:
-
Gross domestic product
- ICT:
-
Information and communication technology
- IT:
-
Information technology
- FY:
-
Financial year
- SC:
-
Smart city
- SCM:
-
Smart city mission
- AMRUT:
-
Atal mission for rejuvenation and urban transformation
- CSTEP:
-
Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy
References
Boulton A, Brunn SD, Devriendt L (2011) Cyber infrastructures and “smart” world cities: Physical, human, and soft infrastructures. In: Taylor P, Derudder B, Hoyler M., Witlox F (eds) International handbook of globalization and world cities. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, p 198 Available via http://www.neogeographies.com/documents/cyberinfrastructure_smart_world_cities.pdf. Accessed 10 Oct 2015
Census of India (2011a) District census handbook Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh Series-10
Census of India (2011b) Provisional population totals paper 2 of 2011 India series 1. http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/prov_results_paper2_india.html. Accessed 11 Nov 2015
Draft Smart City Proposal Allahabad (2015) Smart cities challenge. www.smartcitieschallenge.in/city/allahabad. Accessed 20 Dec 2015
Giffinger R, Fertner C, Kramar H, Kalasek R, Pichler-Milanović N, Meijers E (2007) Smart cities: ranking of European medium-sized cities. Centre of Regional Science (SRF),Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Available via http://www.smartcities.eu/download/smart_cities_final_report.pdf. Accessed 11 Nov 2015
Hall RE (2000) The vision of a smart city. In: Proceedings of the 2nd international life extension technology workshop, Paris, France, 28 Sept. Available via. http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/773961oyxp82/webviewable/773961.pdf. Accessed 25 Dec 2015
Harrison C, Eckman B, Hamilton R, Hartswick P, Kalagnanam J, Paraszczak J, Williams P (2010) Foundations for smarter cities. IBM J Res Develop 54(4). Available via http://fumblog.um.ac.ir/gallery/902/Foundations%20for%20Smarter%20Cities.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov 2015
Hollands RG (2008) Will the real smart city please stand up? City 12(3):303–320
Natural Resources Defense Council (2014) What are smarter cities? http://smartercities.nrdc.org/about. Accessed 15 Nov 2015
Owen D (2009) Green metropolis. Riverhead, London
Partridge H (2004) Developing a human perspective to the digital divide in the smart city. In: Proceedings of the biennial conference of Australian Library and information Association, Queensland, Australia, 21–24 Sept. Available via http://eprints.qut.edu.au/1299/1/partridge.h.2.paper.pdf. Accessed 20 Nov 2015
Population Reference Bureau (2015) Human population: urbanization. http://www.prb.org/Publications/Lesson-Plans/HumanPopulation/Urbanization.aspx. Accessed 30 Oct 2015
Press Information Bureau (2015) Clock begins to tick as 98 smart cities identified. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/efeatures.aspx?relid=126563. Accessed 2 Oct 2015
PricewaterhouseCoopers (2015) https://www.pwc.in/assets/pdfs/publications/2015/how_smart_are_our_cities.pdf. Accessed 2 Sept 2015
Rios P (2008) Creating “the smart city”. Available via http://dspace.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/10429/20/1/2008_rios_smart.pdf. Accessed 22 Nov 2015
The Hindu (2015) India, U.S. sign three MoUs on smart cities. www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-us-sign-three-mous-0n-smart-cities. Accessed 28 Aug 2015
Toppeta D (2010) The smart city vision: how innovation and ICT can build smart, “livable”, sustainable cities. The Innovation Knowledge Foundation. Available via http://www.thinkinnovation.org/file/research/23/en/Toppeta_Report_005_2010.pdf. Accessed 20 Nov 2015
UN Habitat (2015) Habitat III issue papers 21—smart cities. http://unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Habitat-III-Issue-Paper-21_Smart-Cities.pdf. Accessed 2 Dec 2015
Washburn D, Sindhu U, Balaouras S, Dines RA, Hayes NM, Nelson LE (2010) Helping CIOs understand “smart city” initiatives: defining the smart city, its drivers, and the role of the CIO. Forrester Research Inc. Available via http://public.dhe.ibm.com/partnerworld/pub/smb/smarterplanet/forr_help_cios_und_smart_city_initiatives.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov 2015
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Mishra, A.P., Sen, A., Kumar, A. (2017). Exploring Potentials and Challenges in Making Smart Cities in India: A Case Study of Allahabad City, Uttar Pradesh. In: Sharma, P., Rajput, S. (eds) Sustainable Smart Cities in India. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47145-7_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47145-7_8
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47144-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-47145-7
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)