What Is the Sense of Hierarchy of a Smart City

The concerns and values of thinking at different levels are different, just as writing articles and making sentences are at different levels. Planners of smart cities should reflect on their foothold of thinking, whether they have entered the level of urban planning, and whether they use the values of urban development to evaluate the planning and design of smart cities, Improving the level of thinking is easy to say but not easy to do. Many people can't help but use technical standards to evaluate the degree of urban intelligence, which is the performance of not getting rid of low-level thinking.

Low level knowledge cannot understand high-level problems

In people's daily life, low-level knowledge can not explain high-level phenomena, just as grammatical thinking can not explain the charm of poetry. Programmers who can only write subroutines can't see the importance of the overall architecture of the software.

It is difficult for people in low-level environment to imagine opportunities and values in high-level environment, because it is a later concept. In the early days, the Internet only solved the problem of communication between computers. I totally didn't think of the scene after everyone connected. Today's search engines, e-commerce, social networks and wechat are emerging in the new ecological environment. Internet thinking is thinking in the new ecological environment and a new level of thinking based on the communication network, Only by thinking at a new level can we make full use of the emerging opportunities and resources.

In enterprises and government institutions, senior officials and grass-roots employees see different problems and opportunities. Similarly, in the construction of smart city, the world seen by urban leaders and project builders is also different. Untrained grass-roots personnel cannot understand the problems concerned by senior leaders.

Smart city planning is a strategic issue

Upgrading from the design of information engineering to the planning of smart city is a leap in thinking level. For a city, the design of information engineering project belongs to the work of execution level, which mainly solves the problem of how to do. However, the planning of smart city is no longer a problem of "how to do", but a problem of "what to do". "How to do" has standardized methods, but "what to do" has no rules to follow. It is a risky decision-making problem, which depends on rich knowledge and experience.

Smart city is a long-term undertaking with wide coverage and strong continuity. Mistakes in long-term planning will bring huge waste, and it will be very difficult to correct. Smart city planning has risen to the level of urban strategy. Departments and personnel involved in planning must think from the height of urban strategy to make smart city planning meet the strategic requirements of long-term urban development.

Smart city planning is beyond it thinking

At present, the technical color of most smart city planning is too serious and obviously stays in the thinking at the technical level. It should be clear that whether modern information technology is used does not mean whether there is urban wisdom. The evaluation standard of smart city planning is higher than the information technology level, and the thinking at the technical level cannot appreciate the deep-seated urban wisdom.

The thinking logic of a smart city goes beyond the IT level. First, the reasonable positioning of the smart development goal of the city, and second, the feasibility of the realization path to ensure the predetermined benefits. Pure technology can not guarantee benefits. It is just a tool, and tools have no wisdom. Wisdom is reflected in the supporting optimization and transformation scheme of the overall urban system.

Effective smart city planning is to use various resources of the city and organize effective supporting cooperative construction to achieve the development goal of the city. Planning can be regarded as a kind of programming. The resources of planning and programming are not only information systems, but also social organization environmental resources, government administrative resources, social, cultural and educational resources and so on. Only thinking beyond it can control many resources beyond it and achieve the goal of smart city.