Smartness and Technical Readiness of Latin American Cities: A Critical Assessment

Calderón, Marta; López, Gustavo; Marín, Gabriela

doi:10.1109/access.2018.2864218

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“…Unprecedented urbanization and the consequent growth of the size and number of cities in different parts of the world present opportunities and challenges, including traditional approaches to city management and urban lifestyle (Ojo;Dzhusupova;Curry, 2016). Thus, when analyzing developing countries, such as Latin American ones, face many challenges, namely: (i) improving urban management; (ii) having limited financial resources; and (iii) carrying out technological adaptations (Calderon;Lopez;Marin, 2018).…”

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“…In this context, it is difficult for Latin American cities to become smart, but these challenges can be seen as opportunities to improve their populations' quality of life through the implementation of smart initiatives driven by ICT (Calderon;Lopez;Marin, 2018).…”

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“…According to Calderon, Lopez, and Marin (2018), urban governance is an issue that requires attention and thus, e-government should become a priority for local governments. In recent years, the evolution of open governments appear as a part of a new trend that breaks the traditional notion of public management (Gómez; Criado; Gil-Garcia, 2017).…”

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Urban governance in Latin America: Bibliometrics applied to the context of smart cities

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Society lives in a dynamic, complex, and contradictory urban system that seeks the balance between urban development and environmental preservation. For this purpose, there are Information and Communication Technologies which can make the existence of Smart Cities possible. Thus, developing Smart Cities involves applying inter and multidisciplinary knowledge, which permeates even Information Science. This study analyzes Latin American scientific production by applying Bibliometrics to quantify the publications related to smart cities, geotechnologies, governance, and cadastre. We analyzed scientifi c productionindexed in the Scopus database from 2007 to 2017. We also performed the Factorial Correspondence Analysis for visualization of word clusters in order to verify their co-occurrence in the abstracts of articles. The results identifi ed Brazil as the country with the highest number of published documents. The importance of the term “Smart Cities” was evidenced with the increase of production in the last 5 years, a period that accumulates 98% of such publications. The most common term is “Geographic Information System”, that appears in 75% of the publications. Finally, in the co-occurrence of words, we identifi ed terms that corroborate with the greater objectives of smart cities.

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“…Sustainable city, otherwise referred to as green city, assumes in its strategy taking care of such elements as air and water quality (e.g. by taking care of CO2 level reduction), green areas such as parks, waste management, public transport (Bell et al, 2018), energy (Pan & Cheng, 2018), quality of residents' life (Chan & Marafa, 2018;Calderón et al, 2018;D' Aniello et al, 2018) (e.g. taking care of health (Ek et al, 2018)) and sound environment (Kang et al, 2018) which influences the comfort of life of urban community.…”

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Is It a Smart City a Creative Place?

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Kaczorowska–Spychalska

Pinto

2020

Creativity Studies

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Along this article we share our research in the field of urban creativity, in particular on how smart cities are becoming more and more independent and developing a spirit of sustainable autonomy that somehow creates creative opportunities in terms of memory and cultural identity. Our current article raises the issue of how can smart cities affect the creative process? We believe that creativity becomes a process linked into a digital world and becomes much more interactive. That is why new ways of artistic and digital expression can be welcomed by those who are used to new technologies, which daily influence human activity in the space of the city. In other words, with the use of the existing technology inside the cities and their interconnections with other cities we can conceive creative strategies that will contribute to preserve the memory as well as the cultural and creative identity of a people. Video-mapping is precisely one of those creative strategies, once it will directly interact between the real dimension and the virtual dimension. The use of video-mapping, as an element of covering the facades of buildings, can somehow help to make the streets more dynamic and transform them into other atmospheres. The city becomes part of the third dimension and people are interacting between the real and the virtual. The management of the urban space has been gradually changing and following the technological advance. Mobility and sustainability is one of the key factors in which a smart city has invested the most. Now is the time to invest in a relationship between the city and the people, making it more humane and giving space for creativity.

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“…Because of different disciplines and sectoral perspectives, consensus on the definition of smart city could still not be built [5]. The definition of smart city is expanding and changing, recently this concept has been used in the same sense as information technology cities [6]. The smart city is the place that effectively uses strategic planning methods and innovative answers to improve the quality of life of their public, including ecological, cultural, political, institutional, social and economic components [5].…”

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A New Fuzzy Approach for Analyzing the Smartness of Cities: Case Study for Turkey

Erdoğan

2021

Sakarya University Journal of Science

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Smart cities, developed as alternative to classical urbanism, are areas where information and communication technologies are used to make places more livable, sustainable and efficient. If a city offers solutions to problems related to governance, people, economy, mobility, environment and living issues, it can be defined as "smart city". The smartness of cities can be measured on these six basic axes. By analyzing the smartness of cities, evaluations can be made on the quality of life, health, public safety, environment and services. Hereby, appropriate measures can be taken against problems and strategies can be developed to increase the smartness of cities. This paper proposes a new decision making analysis to evaluate and compare the smartness of cities. For this aim, we considered the cities which are the candidates to be smart areas in Turkey. At this point, we applied multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) analysis to evaluate criteria and alternatives in the decision process. We also utilized from fuzzy logic to model the uncertainty in the best way. Furthermore, we applied extended version of ordinary fuzzy sets which is named spherical fuzzy sets for the first time with QUALIFLEX method. Thus, one of the most comprehensive qualitative analyses ever made in the evaluation of smart cities is revealed and the usability of spherical fuzzy sets by MCDM methods is demonstrated. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was used to examine the robustness of the proposed method. As a result, a novel fuzzy decision-making approach has been proposed in the evaluation of smart cities.

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Smartness and Technical Readiness of Latin American Cities: A Critical Assessment

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Urban governance in Latin America: Bibliometrics applied to the context of smart cities

Urban governance in Latin America: Bibliometrics applied to the context of smart cities

Is It a Smart City a Creative Place?

A New Fuzzy Approach for Analyzing the Smartness of Cities: Case Study for Turkey

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