A Nordic Smart Sustainable City Lessons from Theory and Practice

About the Editors

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction
(Barbara Maria Sageidet, Daniela Müller‐Eie, and Kristiane M.F. Lindland)

PART I: A smart city and a smart sustainable cities research network

1)      From European sprat to European smart: How the fishing town of Stavanger became a smart city lighthouse
(Helga Aunemo, Ståle Undheim and Barbara Maria Sageidet)

2)      Smartening Stavanger – reflections on interdisciplinary and intra-regional collaboration
(Anders Riel Müller)

PART II: The conceptual smart city

3)      Tensions and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration in smart city work
(Stella Huang, Reidar Staupe and Barbara Maria Sageidet)

4)      Transformative agency in urban experimentation: The role of intermediaries and boundary spanners

(Veronika Lorentzen and Oluf Langhelle)

5)      A pragmatist approach to the smart city concept and practice
(Kristiane M.F. Lindland)

6)      Towards the streetsmart city: A research and planning agenda for inclusive cities
(Jens Kaae Fisker, Anders Riel Müller and Helene Eiliott)

7)      Conceptual barriers to integrating smart and sustainable mobility planning
(Daniela Müller‐Eie)

8)      Addressing cyber‐physical challenges for critical infrastructures in smart cities through integrating organizational processes for safety and security management
(Ruth Østgaard Skotnes and Kenneth Pettersen Gould)

9)      Streetwise in the artistic city: Jazz, Beats, Hugs and Bugs
(Kristoffer Berre Alberts and Petter Frost Fadnes)

PART III: The lived smart city

10)   Implementation of the smart city concept in Stavanger Municipality – from a global idea to local practice
(Ståle Undheim and Barbara Maria Sageidet)

11)   Enabling the future smart cities: AI-based orchestration of 5G and beyond
(Gianfranco Nencioni, Annisa Sarah and Anders Riel Müller)

12)   Data accessibility for researchers in smart cities: A literature review and case study about access to consumer energy data in Norway
(Helleik Rosenvinge Syse, Chandra Prakash Paneru, and Harald Nils Røstvik)

13)   Barriers, motivators, and smart solutions for promoting commute cycling in Stavanger
(Ayda Joudavi and Ari K.M. Tarigan)

14)   Developing children’s understanding of their complex urban environment – Kindergarten's awareness of air quality in Stavanger
(Barbara Maria Sageidet, Todor Milkov Kesarovski and Petar Zhivkov)

15)   Making art smart
(Kristiane M.F. Lindland and Fredrik A.F. Matre)

PART IV: Lessons Learned

16)   Lessons learned from a living smart city
(Daniela Müller-Eie, Barbara Maria Sageidet, Kristiane M.F. Lindland)

Index

Biography

Barbara Maria Sageidet is a professor of natural science in the Department of Early Childhood Teacher Education at the University of Stavanger (UiS). She has a PhD in soil and environmental sciences from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, related to paleoecology and soil micromorphology. Her research relates to natural science, natural science didactics and sustainability in kindergarten and environmental citizenship, with interests in environmental and soil literacy, urban gardens, and urban childhood.

Daniela Müller-Eie is a professor of city and regional planning in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger and holds a PhD in architecture/urban sustainability from Glasgow University. Her research generally focuses on the interaction between the physical environment, planning measures, socio-cultural conditions and psychological factors. More specifically, she studies sustainable urban mobility and travel behaviour and related incentives.

Kristiane M.F. Lindland is a research manager for climate, environment and sustainability in the division for Health and Society at NORCE Research and holds a minor position as an associate professor in change management in the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She holds a PhD in management from the University of Stavanger. Her research areas stretch from innovation, design, leadership, and organization to energy justice, citizen involvement and sustainability. What characterizes her approach to these themes is a relational and processual understanding of reality.