Edit Project: The Digital City as a Foundation of Economic Prosperity

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Wilfred PinfoldJiri SkopekHugh HarkerCharles Kelley

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Green Horizons

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Regenerative Urbanism

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Urban livability, digital infrastructure, and energy systems together form the foundation of community centered economic prosperity. This paper introduces area management as a “Civic Tech” that is needed for digitally coordinated infrastructure cultivating vibrant, dense, and regenerative innovation corridors.

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__NOTOC__==Cyber Infrastructure, Area Management, Innovation Corridors, and the Community Energy Hub Paradigm== Economic prosperity in cities increasingly depends on the quality, affordability, and livability of dense neighborhood environments. As innovation districts downtowns drive productivity and GDP growth, they face mounting constraints from energy costs, grid capacity, housing affordability, social equity, and digital infrastructure. This paper reframes cyber infrastructure as foundational to a Livable Digital Innovation Corridor as the spatial framework where urban design optimizes neighborhood mobility and livability through exceptional durable power and data access. Within this framework, a Community Area Management Hub (CAMH) is proposed as a digitally coordinated, community-scale system integrating renewables, storage, microgrids, district energy, and hybrid AC/DC architectures to amplify livability in the neighborhood. Enabled by digital public infrastructure platform, CAMHs optimize power, energy and data flows through a Sense–Share–Think–Act architecture with community oversight. Drawing on international contexts, the paper demonstrates how CAMHs enhance sustainability and livability through community stewardship. It value is regenerating resilient neighborhoods representing local values in resource optimization and acknowledged hazard events. [[Category:Buildings]] [[Category:Data]] [[Category:Education]] [[Category:Transportation]] [[Category:Utility]] [[Category:Broadband]] [[Category:Resilience]] [[Category:Smart Buildings]] [[Category:Project]] ==Current state of implementation== The proposal is at a developmental conceptual and pre-deployment stage, informed by applied research, energy system modeling, policy engagement for district-scale, digitally coordinated power and energy systems supporting livability in urban environments. ==Innovative characteristics of the proposal== The proposal advances an integrated Community Area Management Hub (CAMH) framework by linking digital coordination, urban form and multi-energy systems. It introduces a community stewardship entity as a novel model that operationalizes decarbonization, resilience, and affordability at the community scale. ==Results / Impact of the proposal== International cases in Denmark, Stockholm, Singapore, Helsinki, London, Barcelona and Germany demonstrate partial CAMH elements. An integrated area-managed CAMH model could reduce emissions, defer grid upgrades, lower costs, and provide a transferable pathway to accelerate energy transition while sustaining livability and equity. ==Partners involved== Urban energy and planning researchers, digital infrastructure specialists, and practitioners working with municipalities, utilities, housing organizations, and innovation districts in Toronto, Canada, and Portland, Oregon within the Smart City and energy transition ecosystem.

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