Smart District Through a Study of Urban Area Usage on High-Speed Internet Area: A Case Study of Chiang Mai City

Abstract

Towards becoming Smart city, Internet has become an important infrastructure in every city. Since 2018 Chiang Mai has forced as Smart city which focuses on city traffic and transportation. Without learning from people and city on the reality, an idea of smart city conceptually requires building up the relation of people and city development with high-speed Internet provider. To elevate quality of people life, smart city is not only holistically on city scale but also community as district scale.  According to National Strategy 2018-2037, Smart city presently run by government and internet provider service as Top-down development. The shape of Chiang Mai city is sprawled by City development, Government has served only centralized infrastructure without understanding and elevating existing social and community learning. Then, City development in the past usually overrun and cause to conflict of local community. As 3 ring roads or superhighways which provides city spreading to other suburban districts. But why center of the city still gets potentially to raise businesses and happen new kind of convergence activities. The strategy of Smart city must be collaboratively planned by learning on smart lifestyle and grounding on people. To understand new city area where supports new smart people and society is the key to elevate and integrate City development. Several active areas in the city have been appeared as “Smart district” where creates new convergence activities by locals, entrepreneur, digital nomad. By wireless city and Smart city forcing, this leads to a question where Chiang Mai city area could potentially be ready to this upcoming development. Smart district is a new study to study urban area through high-speed internet area where ground up the topic of smart city specifically.