How to make "smart cities" no longer lost in the concept of intelligence

"Smart city" is a hot word that has become popular around the world in recent years. It was triggered by the "Smart Planet" proposed by IBM in 2009, and later with the help of the Internet of Things and Internet information technology. spread and become widely known in various fields. Spurred by the global "smart trend" and related policies, many places in my country have put forward the slogan of creating "smart cities" and regard building "smart cities" as a way to cultivate competitiveness, respond to financial crises, expand citizen employment, and seize the commanding heights of future science and technology. important strategy. However, it should be noted that the current practice of "smart cities" mostly belongs to the concept construction period, and people's understanding of "smart cities" is only limited to the level of smart cities or digital cities such as the Internet of Things, the Internet, and cloud computing. The "smart city" also makes it difficult to distinguish which is a means of urban marketing and which is the reality of urban construction. In fact, "smart city" should be a comprehensive description of the bright future of the city, and technological progress is a necessary but not sufficient condition for "smart city". Therefore, paying attention to the construction of "smart cities" from a perspective that transcends technological progress is a social topic worth exploring.

1. Create a "smart city" in dynamic equilibrium

In view of the current reality that people's understanding of "smart city" is too narrow, we need to adopt a simpler concept to understand the broad sense "Smart City". From a broad perspective, "smart city" is not a declarative description of a city's static goals or ideal blueprint, but a dynamic process of using more advanced technologies to solve urban development problems, making the city more efficient, safe, convenient, harmonious, and A sustainable comprehensive state is a smart response to urban problems. A "smart city" should optimize and integrate various resources as much as possible to make people living in it feel happy instead of stressed, that is, it is suitable for the all-round development of people.

From this point of view, a "smart city" in a broad sense is a calm state that uses smart dynamics to respond to the urbanization process. Its core is the quality orientation of urbanization development, and its form is determined by smart development strategies. Leading space organism. It has a social activity system with strong self-organizing capabilities, an economic activity system with strong innovative capabilities, and a highly intelligent support system.

According to the broad concept of "smart city", a "smart city" can be constructed into three levels: strategic level, activity level, and physical level, as well as strategic system, social activity system, economic activity system, support system, and space System five systems. Among them, the support system and the space system together form the physical development foundation of the "smart city". They form the economic and social development platform based on the progress of information technology and the continuous evolution of space quality optimization respectively; the social activity system and the economic activity system interact with each other. In order to connect and restrict each other to achieve a balance between fairness and efficiency; the strategic system serves as a leader to achieve the overall dynamic balance of each system. For example, if the dynamic balance of the two systems of social activities and economic activities exceeds the reasonable range, it will easily lead to the collapse of social, economic and even larger urban systems. At this time, the strategic system will play a balancing role.

2. Creating “smart cities” through mutual support between urban and rural areas

In a sense, today’s Chinese society has developed into a period in which “urban society” is the dominant state. However, in the process of rapid urbanization in China, social development is still based on blood relations as the main link, and economic development is still based on total growth as the main goal. Rapid and large-scale population mobility does not necessarily form good urban communities. Under this situation, the "rural society" that exists opposite the "urban society" must respond intelligently. The general principle is: on the one hand, the city should emphasize the resources and benefits that the city provides to the countryside; on the other hand, the rural native land should be fully utilized. self-organization ability to explore a high-quality urban-rural relationship.

At present, both the central and local governments emphasize coordinating urban and rural development, actively promoting the construction of a new socialist countryside, vigorously promoting ecological civilization and building a beautiful China. These practices are worthy of full recognition. Because rural areas, like cities, urgently need to modernize and improve the quality and level of living facilities and supporting services. However, it should be noted that the modernization of rural areas is not only about enriching material life, but also retaining the unique social and cultural attributes of rural areas. Theoretically, rural and urban cultures are heterogeneous. In comparison, urban society is more complex and inclusive, while rural society is weaker. However, rural society is often an extremely stable social entity based on blood and geography. When it encounters problems related to collective interests, it will erupt with more powerful force. This cultural difference brings huge challenges to us in promoting new urbanization and achieving the ultimate goal of undifferentiated urban and rural areas.

We believe that informatization is the main way for urban and rural areas to move towards undifferentiation. In today's society, there are no time and space barriers in the channels for obtaining information, and the "presence" and timeliness of information have been greatly improved. It is possible for rural society to fully synchronize with the city in terms of informatization construction and become the driving force for infrastructure and public services. *A breakthrough in service construction to ultimately achieve the overall goal of high-quality urbanization. The key here is whether the top-level design can tilt the supply of information technology and information resources toward relatively "vulnerable" rural areas and mobile people, rather than remaining concentrated in "strong" large and medium-sized cities.

3. Create “smart cities” while improving spatial self-organization capabilities

The current compression of time and space by information technology and its substantive impact on production and lifestyle have become increasingly prominent. The traditional economic location-oriented hierarchical structure of central places has gradually been broken down in terms of the use of space and the way people use space. The development of electronic communication networks has largely broken through the barrier of distance, leading to the emergence of giant cities of unprecedented scale, making some of the city's Non-central areas can also use their own advantages to form agglomerations of economic activities. These new agglomerations form a closely connected whole through transportation and communication networks, and the development pattern of urban circles is broken, resulting in a multi-center networked development pattern. As far as the internal spatial structure of the city is concerned, the changes in people's lives and production methods caused by information technology have also caused significant changes in the city's residential, transportation, industrial and other functions. Urban land use, especially in the central area, has become mixed. trend, while promoting the functional reconstruction of urban suburbs.

Information technology has greatly expanded the frequency and intensity of non-local connections. People’s understanding of urban and rural space no longer relies on ergodic contact with the real physical environment, but relies to a large extent on dissemination of information media. But the media itself is not just a neutral intermediary, it will affect the construction of society, culture and thought to a considerable extent. Therefore, for perceptible urban and rural spaces, the functional hierarchical sequence and urban-rural differential characteristics constructed by various Internet media largely represent the selective transmission of spatial images by specific groups.

At the same time, it must be noted that high degree of informatization has enhanced the diversity of people’s local relationships. In a state of rapid urbanization, the spatial consequences of compound kinship and geography abound: the urban or semi-urbanized population at the bottom of society (such as migrant workers) are bound by their fellow villagers and gather semi-enclosedly in specific and diverse urban spaces. Among the carriers, it is reflected in communities where colleagues from the same hometown gather together (such as "villages in the city"); among them, the middle and upper-class people with higher education levels choose big cities as their destination based on their professional connections, which is reflected in the first-tier cities' emphasis on all kinds of talents. Strong attraction, but from the perspective of local identity, this group of high-end people are more or less worried about urban problems and dissatisfied with the urban environment. More importantly, the incomplete integration of localized lifestyles due to geographical location makes it difficult for large cities to become universally recognized "home cities."

What needs to be emphasized is that the government, in particular, should strategically and dynamically balance the relationship between economy and society, urban and rural areas in the construction of "smart cities", and pay close attention to the advancement of information technology. Potential crises arise from the polarization between rich and poor, urban and rural areas. Focusing on the smart construction of systems, society, and people's livelihood, through smart top-level design, citizens can benefit equitably from smart technologies, fully release social power, balance economic power, and lead the balanced development of urban and rural areas with new urbanization.

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