Many smart city development cases have been reported both domestically and abroad in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, but it seems to be over hanging on technology-centric approach focusing on technical solutions and platform. This study argues that there is a need to reinforce the human-centric approach for the promotion of smart cities, especially for small and medium cities. In particular, it proposes a human-centric smartization strategy and some methods suitable for Korea’s Urban Regeneration New-deal projects (URNPs) aiming at improvement of socio-economic life quality of local residents. The key proposal of the human-centric urban regeneration and smartization strategy results in the quadruple helix innovation model in the end. This strategy also emphasizes the use of methods such as multi-site living-labs network, where representatives and experts from different regions participate in a network-like manner, and they are seeking customized solutions to similar social issues together, and they can utilize various technical solutions through a sharing platform. Finally, this strategy goes beyond technology and hardware based regional development, and aims at social innovation in which various participants become project co-designer.
Volume 11 | 07-Special Issue
Pages: 1270-1278