Municipalities' understanding of the Smart City concept: An exploratory analysis in Belgium

Desdemoustier, Jonathan; Crutzen, Nathalie; Giffinger, Rudolf

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2018.10.029

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“…ICT-based infrastructure is necessary, but not sufficient for developing smart cities [33,34]. Therefore, although the concept of the smart city is consistently implemented in practice, it is not enough to develop and implement technical solutions; rather, it is necessary to enable the development of human capital through enhancing skills and improving the quality of life in urban environments for future generations.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Smart Citymentioning

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Smart City: Modeling Key Indicators in Serbia Using IT2FS

Milošević

Stević³

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Sustainability

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Previous initiatives developed for the purpose of designing and the realization of a smart, sustainable city have shown that there is no single approach to make a city “smarter” and more sustainable. Each city represents a unique system where different stakeholders, local authorities, utility companies, and citizens undertake numerous activities, creating a matrix of interactions and interdependencies. In order to understand the ecological and social contexts of the city, as well as its priority activities, history, and specific features, the establishment of an appropriate methodology to support the establishment of a sustainable and smart city has become extremely important. Our research aims to explore key indicators in the development of the concept of the smart city in Serbia, and to assess the prioritization of activities. An integral approach based on a mathematical method a hybrid fuzzy Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) model based on Interval type-2 fuzzy sets classifies the whole system through different criteria and sub-criteria while respecting the experts’ opinions. The aim is to offer modelled solutions for our country integrated with the EU by smart cities.

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Section: Conceptualizing Smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart City: Modeling Key Indicators in Serbia Using IT2FS

Milošević

Stević³

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…Albeit over recent years, smart city has become eminently a mainstream technocratic concept in European policy agendas [2,3]. These agendas, in turn, have taken for granted the meaning of stakeholders without further questioning who the term actually references, which puts at stake both urban democracy and the related political decisions for the city [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

Section: Introduction: Democratising the Technocratic Smart Citymentioning

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Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework

Calzada

2020

Smart Cities

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The smart cities policy approach has been intensively implemented in European cities under the Horizon 2020 programme. However, these implementations not only reduce the interdependencies among stakeholders to technocratic Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models, but also fail to question the identities of strategic stakeholders and how they prioritise their business/social models. These aspects are putting democracy at stake in smart cities. Therefore, this article aims to unfold and operationalise multistakeholders’ policy frameworks from the social innovation perspective by suggesting the ex-novo penta-helix framework—including public, private, academia, civic society, and social entrepreneurs/activists—to extend the triple and quadruple-helix frameworks. Based on fieldwork action research conducted from February 2017 to December 2018—triangulating desk research, 75 interviews, and three validation workshops—this article applies the penta-helix framework to map out five strategic dimensions related to (i) multistakeholder helix framework and (ii) the resulting business/social models comparatively in three follower cities of the H2020-Replicate project: Essen (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland), and Nilüfer (Turkey). For each case study, the findings reveal: (i) a unique multistakeholder composition, (ii) diverse preferences on business/social models, (iii) a regular presence of the fifth helix as intermediaries, and (iv) the willingness to experiment with democratic arrangements beyond the hegemonic PPP.

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“…Fuelled by the development of technology, the concept of a "smart city" has taken over as a solution to challenges faced by cities. Although this concept is still criticised as too techno-centric [3] and lacks proper conceptualisation [4], its popularity has not stopped growing with combined objectives of enhancing the quality of life, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development in urban areas, adopting new ways of governance, and concentration on sustainable development and human capital [4]. A smart city concept comes together with more analogous terms, such as virtual city, intelligent city, ubiquitous city, knowledge city, etc.-all of which were blamed for lacking a "people" component [2].…”

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“…A smart city concept comes together with more analogous terms, such as virtual city, intelligent city, ubiquitous city, knowledge city, etc.-all of which were blamed for lacking a "people" component [2]. The smart city system also has many definitions [2,4] and appears not to have a one-size-fits-all definition. This highlights its complexity as a system with six subsystems.…”

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Information Integration in a Smart City System—A Case Study on Air Pollution Removal by Green Infrastructure through a Vehicle Smart Routing System

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Over the past few years, the ‘‘smart city’’ concept has emerged as a new trend to answer challenging issues related to urban development. Transformation of a city system into a smart system is meant to improve the quality of life for its people and their way of living, its environment, economy, transport, and governance. Due to benefits associated with the concept of the smart city and associated implementation challenges, traditional city systems have been undergoing transformation into smart city systems. However, observed approaches of transformation presented disconnected and fragmented city systems that usually hamper the interaction of city subsystems with the efficient and environmentally friendly urban environment. This work emphasizes the systematic view of a city system and proposes a novel method of smart city system integration. The results of our study show that in a smart city environment, where ecosystem services are valorised, air pollution emitted by vehicles can be removed by taking into consideration information related to air pollution reduction. A case study is presented to demonstrate that, with an integrated system, information outputs on travel decisions are different and more valuable. The case study explores the operability of the system, its limitations, and potential future improvements.

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Municipalities' understanding of the Smart City concept: An exploratory analysis in Belgium

Cited by 118 publications

References 44 publications

Smart City: Modeling Key Indicators in Serbia Using IT2FS

Smart City: Modeling Key Indicators in Serbia Using IT2FS

Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework

Information Integration in a Smart City System—A Case Study on Air Pollution Removal by Green Infrastructure through a Vehicle Smart Routing System

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