The Legal Framework of Smart Sustainable Cities Construction "A Study of Some Arab Law"

Abstract

Smart Cities is an emerging trend for policymakers all over the world, today, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities, generating about 80 percent of the global Gross domestic product. Migration and rapidly rising standards of living are contributing to an unprecedented worldwide surge in urbanization. This scale of urbanization requires efficient management of resources, infrastructure development, and the control of traffic congestion and pollution. The social and economic complexities of urbanization add to the challenges. The transformation into a smart sustainable city is an essential platform to make life easier and more comfortable, and Arabic countries similar to the rest of the world is obliged keep up with different stages of technological evolution to reach a sustainable Smart City by modern technologies associated with them as for cloud computing and broadband infrastructure security and big data management and analysis of information and communication between machines and internet of things and mobile networks and cyber- security, confidentiality and privacy of personal data. Through this paper, we will look to the legislative and regulatory framework for Arab smart cities, and a statement of the fundamental pillars of the construction of sustainable cities by answering to these questions: What is the city’s vision, and what does it aim to become? How should “quality of life” be defined, and how can this vision be supported by technological solutions?