Methodological Approaches to Adapting the Smart City Concept to Fergana City
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The Smart City concept has become one of the leading paradigms of contemporary urban development, combining digital governance, intelligent infrastructure, environmental monitoring, data-based decision-making and human-centered urban services. However, international Smart City models cannot be directly transferred to regional cities without methodological adaptation, because each urban context has its own socio-economic, infrastructural, cultural, regulatory and environmental conditions. This paper examines methodological approaches to adapting the Smart City concept to Fergana city, Uzbekistan. The study is based on qualitative analysis of international Smart City practices, contextual interpretation of Uzbekistan’s digital transformation agenda, and the development of an adaptive framework for local implementation. The proposed methodology includes five interconnected stages: analysis of international models, assessment of local urban conditions, identification of priority Smart City directions, development of adaptive implementation tools, and formulation of key performance indicators for monitoring progress. Special attention is given to the integration of Digital Twin technologies, BIM, GIS, IoT-based monitoring, citizen participation mechanisms, and the conceptual development of the UzSmart Building Standard as a local evaluation tool for smart buildings. The paper argues that Fergana’s Smart City transformation should be implemented as a phased, human-centered and context-sensitive process rather than as a direct replication of foreign models. The proposed methodological approach can support urban planners, local authorities and researchers in developing an adaptive Smart City model for regional cities of Uzbekistan.
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