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The increasing technological orientation of data and information
pertinent to the urban form and
related activities can be exploited
through the adoption of a smart city
planning approach. The available
digital infrastructure and investment
in ICT are instrumental in overcoming the lack of interdisciplinary integration for planning future cities. The
smart city planning approach that
incorporates these improvements
will therefore potentially provide
a vehicle to achieve this end. It is
imperative that this approach, as an
alternative to conventional planning,
is able to monitor spatial "flows"
and preferred activities in urban
and regional spaces, and to provide
reliable evidence for data-driven
planning and decision making. The
ability to do so is of growing importance especially in our current digital milieu, where an unprecedented
volume of data is being produced
in cities. Notwithstanding, there are
technical, legal, ethical, and policy
related concerns that need to be
addressed. From a technical point of
view, standardization, spatial digital
interoperability, and data harmonization are fundamental considerations
[6]. Legal and ethical issues include
privacy, data protection, and retrospective access to information for
secondary uses, where the primary
consent did not foresee other uses
[19]-[22]. Policy concerns relate to
over-reliance on an entrepreneurial
route to smart cities [23]. These are
being recognized as key challenges
and policy imperatives by researchers, practitioners, and governments
around the world [21], [24].
In this article we have attempted
to highlight a range of data dimensions and modeling considerations
that need due attention to support
smarter planning, land administration, and management. In terms
of the future, we have emphasized
the role of a smart city planning
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approach in the genesis of new connections across and between wider
societies in supporting the delivery
of a vision of realizing more sustainable city futures. We have added
another dimension to the range of
opportunities that have been suggested in the literature as the basis
for a future research agenda on
smart cities [5], [24], [25]. These are
all predicated on having access to
a vast array of digital datasets that
are integrated, standardized, and
available in real time. It is incumbent upon us to realize the opportunities that can be offered to the
broader community by extending
beyond our traditional governance
approaches. We need to play a role
in delivering a more sustainable and
smart society in our urban future.
The advent of big data and smart
cities provides such an opportunity.

Author Information
Soheil Sabri, Abbas Rajabifard, and
Serene Ho are with the Centre for
SDIs and Land Administration (CSDILA), Department of Infrastructure
Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Parkvill 3010, Australia.
Email: soheil.sabri@unimelb.edu.au,
abbas.r@unimelb.edu.au, sereneh@
unimelb.edu.au.
Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad is
with SMART Infrastructure Facility,
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. Email:
mrad@uow.edu.au.
Christopher Pettit is with City
Futures Research Centre, Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney NSW 2052,
Australia. Email: c.pettit@unsw.edu.au.

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