How do we understand smart cities? An evolutionary perspective

Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy; Crutzen, Nathalie

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.04.010

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“…Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are in the core of this discourse [13], which underlines the enhancement of cities' performance in many fields [14].…”

Section: Icts and Big Data Analytics For Rising Smartness On City Toumentioning

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Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

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Abstract:As cities become increasingly complex, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) bring smartness into organisations and communities, contributing to a more competitive tourism destination, i.e., smart tourism destinations. Enhanced information access coupled with a new kind of tourists avid for online content and predisposed to share information on social media, allows for a better understanding of tourist behaviour regarding their spatial distribution in urban destinations. Thus, smart tourism portrays individuals as information makers, refining the available alternatives for tracking their location. Big data analytics is a technology with the potential to develop Smart City services. From the analysis of the spatial distribution of tourists in the city of Lisbon based on data collected from the 'Panoramio' social network, we identify the most popular places in the city in a context of tourist visits. This new data largely contributes to understanding the consumption of space within urban tourist destinations and therefore enables us to differentiate the overcrowded places from the ones with potential to grow. This allows decision-makers to imagine new ways of planning and managing towards a sustainable 'smart' future.

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“…Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are in the core of this discourse [13], which underlines the enhancement of cities' performance in many fields [14].…”

Section: Icts and Big Data Analytics For Rising Smartness On City Toumentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

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“…The literature is thus divided by establishing which of the above elements, and to what extent, encourage a city to be "smarter." Based on this idea, Kummitha and Crutzen [22] classify the different trends of the literature on SCs into four schools of thought, considering characteristics described by the different authors reviewed. At first place, the Restrictive school of thought emphasizes that the core element of a SC is ICT, and thus the SCs are characterized by high connectivity and data.…”

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“…On the opposite side of the spectrum, a third school of thought, the Rationalistic or Pragmatic school, puts the human factors as the central element of a SC, without which ICT would be useless. Finally, according to Kummitha and Crutzen [22], there is another more critical school of thought, the Critical school, which denounces that sometimes city initiatives labeled as "smart" are implemented forgetting that the urban space must be managed with the aim of improving the citizens' quality of life.…”

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“…As explained in the preceding sections, in order to analyze the technological and human development of SCs, authors have proposed a number of theoretical models, and, according to such models, have surveyed the research literature to characterize and categorize SC notions proposed in scientific publications [18] [22].…”

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“…More specifically, we analyze a large number of case studies reported by the EUROCITIES network 1 that represent real "smart" initiatives implemented in major European cities. In our analysis, we characterize and categorize these cities according to theoretical SC models proposed in the literature -Nam' and Pardo's [26], and Kummitha' and Crutzen's [22] models-that aim to discern the technological and human developments of SCs.…”

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How do we understand smart cities? An evolutionary perspective

Cited by 430 publications

References 39 publications

Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

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