Are UN SDGs useful for capturing multiple values of smart city?

Grossi, Giuseppe; Trunova, Olga

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2021.103193

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“…While there is no generally accepted definition of a smart city (O'Grady and O'Hare, 2012), scholars seem to agree on classifying smart cities into three groups: smart cities with smart technologies, smart cities with smart citizens and smart cities with smart governance (Meijer and Rodriguez-Bolivar, 2016) while combinations may also exist. Moreover, smart city research generally appears at a relatively early stage as far as conceptual developments and empirical understandings are concerned (Grossi and Trunova, 2021). Caragliu et al (2011) consider a city smart when it invests on human capital, social capital infrastructure and natural capital to create quality of living and sustainable economic growth.…”

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Analyzing smart cities' reporting: do they report “smart”?

Cohen

Karatzimas

2021

JPBAFM

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PurposeThis study examines the reporting practices of a sample of awarded smart cities that report in English by analyzing the financial and non-financial reports published in their websites.Design/methodology/approachThe study performs a manifest content analysis on the financial and non-financial reports published by a sample of awarded – by various networks and organizations – smart cities. Integrated Popular Reporting that builds on Integrated Reporting, Popular Reporting and ICT advancements is used as the reference paradigm to analyze the content and the characteristics of these reports.FindingsThe results indicate that smart cities' reports are mainly developed conventionally and do not embed technological advancements. However, there are several smart cities that adopt a reporting paradigm where the five capitals of Integrated Reporting, over and above the financial one, are discussed.Originality/valueSystematizing the way the existing reports of smart cities are developed provides evidence whether smart cities adopt reporting means that are consistent with their character, as well as, the specific areas they should focus to achieve that. Toward this end, collaborations between citizens and smart city councils, in the philosophy of co-production and co-creation of public value, could prove helpful in the development of useful reports.

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Analyzing smart cities' reporting: do they report “smart”?

Cohen

Karatzimas

2021

JPBAFM

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“…The SC idea emerged as a remedy for the consequences of urbanisation: it was motivated by environmental concerns and was meant to drive social and environmental transformations (Yigitcanlar et al. , 2018; Grossi and Trunova, 2021). A growing body of SC research presents a rich, yet fragmented, gold mine of information (Meijer and Bolívar, 2016).…”

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“…The global trend towards developing smart cities (SCs) promises to achieve urban sustainability Grossi and Trunova, 2021) and enhance the quality of life of the citizens of these cities through smart technologies (Manville et al, 2014). While projecting and visualising the desirable future of a city and the ways to get there (Lapsley et al, 2010), public authorities adopt the "SC approach" to the problems that cities face: using information and communication technology (ICT) to monitor and manage everyday city life in an "intelligent" manner (Wirtz and M€ uller, 2021).…”

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Visualising and calculating the smart city: a dialogue perspective

Trunova

Khodachek²,

Khodachek³

2022

JPBAFM

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PurposeThis study addresses the implications of smart city development paths (techno-centric and human-centric) by investigating the evolution of a city strategy, focusing on how different actors in a dialogue centred on strategic planning documents for Saint Petersburg, Russia, visualised the smart city and then made it calculable.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a case study based on a documentary analysis supported by ethnographic elements relying on the smart city conceptual proposals, the approved city strategy and the artifacts of expert discussions leading to the strategy implementation plan.FindingsThrough the lens of dialogue theory, the authors show how government and non-government actors in different organisational settings devised techno-centric smart city calculations, which arose despite an initial human-centric vision.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the case study allowed the study to illustrate the depth and richness of the context of the authoritarian Russian state where the role of citizens in public decision-making is rather limited, different and even contrasting results could be produced in other contexts.Practical implicationsThere is a gap between a smart city vision and its grounding in calculations. Thus, the human-centric elements require special attention, and the organisation of the dialogue on smart city strategy must enable plurality of voices besides those of government actors.Originality/valueThe case suggests viewing the human-centric and techno-centric perspectives not as dichotomous, but rather emerging consecutively throughout the journey from an initial strategic vision to its implementation in the city's calculations.

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“…This shows that blindly pursuing urban construction and ignoring the protection of urban ecosystems will lead to unilateral coercion of the system. Therefore, urban planners should pay attention to the high-quality coordination effect of the smart city and urban forest landscape pattern based on the information and tech-nology of the two systems [82]. Through the process of environmental assessment and large-scale zoning covering biological diversity, in infrastructure investment planning and development, such as transportation system design and management, the consideration of biological diversity is reflected to avoid the most vulnerable of biological diversity.…”

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Coupling Coordination Relationship and Driving Mechanism between Urbanization and Ecosystem Service Value in Large Regions: A Case Study of Urban Agglomeration in Yellow River Basin, China

Zhang

Liu

Feng

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Mastering the coupling and coordination relationship and driving mechanism of urbanization and ecosystem service value (ESV) is of great significance to ecological protection and regional sustainable development. In this paper, the coupling coordination model, geographic detector and GWR model are used to analyze the spatio-temporal coupling interaction between urbanization and ESV and the spatial differentiation characteristics of influencing factors from 1995 to 2018. The results of the study are as follows: (1) During the study period, cities in the Yellow River Basin experienced accelerated urban expansion, and the ESV of forests, water and wetlands increased, which offset the reduction in ESV due to the expansion of construction land and farmland and grassland. (2) The degree of coupling and coordination between the two gradually improved, but the overall situation showed a low-level coupling and coordination process. Mild coupling coordination gradually increased, reaching an increase of 38.10%; severe imbalance types tended to disappear, decreasing by 52.38%, and coupling subtypes developed from lagging urbanization to ESV backward types. The high-value areas of the coupling coordination degree are distributed in the high-value areas of ESV in the north of the upper reaches, and the low-value areas are distributed in the cities of Henan and Shandong with high urbanization levels in the downstream and most resource-based cities in the middle reaches. (3) In addition, the spatial intensity of the effect of each dominant factor on the degree of coupling coordination is different. Economic growth, technological development, environmental regulations and the proportion of forest land have positive and belt-shaped alienation characteristics for the coupling and coordination of the two, and infrastructure and temperature show negative driving characteristics. Therefore, the coupling and coordination relationship between ESV and urbanization should be clarified to help future urban planning. On the basis of determining the regional environmental carrying capacity and the adjustment direction of the rational planning of land resources, the impact of urban barriers formed by administrative boundaries and natural geographical conditions on the development of urban agglomerations should be broken to achieve the overall high-quality and coordinated development of the basin.

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Are UN SDGs useful for capturing multiple values of smart city?

Cited by 37 publications

References 12 publications

Analyzing smart cities' reporting: do they report “smart”?

Analyzing smart cities' reporting: do they report “smart”?

Visualising and calculating the smart city: a dialogue perspective

Coupling Coordination Relationship and Driving Mechanism between Urbanization and Ecosystem Service Value in Large Regions: A Case Study of Urban Agglomeration in Yellow River Basin, China

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