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79 Magazine An eco‐city is defined as a city in Sustainably, Manesar (2011)
which citizens, business and integrated, low
government sustainably work, live carbon products and
and interact through delivery of services, maximize
integrated, low carbon products welfare, industrial
and services. The objective of this community,
project is to build a new industrial integrated
community to maximize the technology.
welfare of the people and minimize
carbon emission.
The above vision can be achieved
by integrating technology across
water, waste, energy,
transportation and safety
infrastructure while taking
measures like maximum utilization
of renewable resources for
electricity supply, minimum loss of
natural resources and others.

80 User centric "The use of Smart Computing Computing Washburn et al.
technologies to make the critical technologies, (2010)
infrastructure components and interconnected
services of a city‐which include city components, city
administration, education, administration,
healthcare, public safety, real education,
estate, transportation, and utilities‐ healthcare, public
more intelligent, interconnected, safety, real estate,
and efficient". transportation,
utilities, efficiency.
81 User centric A smart sustainable city is ICT, integrated, Woods et al.
characterized by the integration of sustainability, citizen (2013)
technology into a strategic well‐being, economic
approach to sustainability, citizen development.
well‐being, and economic
development.
82 User centric The terms "smart" and "intelligent" ICT, infrastructure Hodkinson, S.
have become part of the language productivity, (2011)
of urbanization policy, referring to services, low carbon,
the clever use of IT to improve the environment.
productivity of a city's essential
infrastructure and services and to
reduce energy inputs and CO2
outputs in response to global
climate change.

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