Open AccessSome issues about smart cities and the application to Ho Chi Minh city
Author(s) -
Vo Van Sen,
Vo Phuc Toan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
khoa học và công nghệ: khoa học xã hội và nhân văn
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2588-1043
DOI - 10.32508/stdjssh.v3i3.519
Subject(s) - ho chi minh , smart city , geography , population , economic growth , climate change , economy , political science , socioeconomics , cartography , sociology , computer science , economics , computer security , internet of things , demography , ecology , scale (ratio) , biology
Nowadays, more than 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. In the time when humans are beings facing the pressure of population explosion and climate change, technology was a key to solve the problems of modern cities. Many models of cities have been chosen to develop cities in the world such as green cities, global cities, livable cities… Born from the 1990s and becoming more and more popular since 2010, smart cities have been the most chosen development model of cities in the world. And Barcelona, Seoul, Singapore were successful cases which transformed into smart cities. Similarly, as the largest economic hub of Viet Nam, Ho Chi Minh City encounters serious challenges of socio-economic transformations, climate change; thus, it needs a new growth model. In Nov. 2017, Ho Chi Minh City promulgated the plans for the transformation towards a smart city soon in the 2017-2020 period and with a vision to 2025. This paper aims to analyze issues about smart cities, lessons from prosperous cities in the process of building a smart city and of applying the lessons to the case of Ho Chi Minh City.