Understanding ‘smart cities’: Intertwining development drivers with desired outcomes in a multidimensional framework

Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Kamruzzaman, Md.; Buys, Laurie; Ioppolo, Giuseppe; Marques, Jamile Sabatini; Costa, Eduardo Moreira da; Yun, JinHyo Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.04.003

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“…While the definitions and conceptualisations of what a smart city truly is remain highly heterogeneous, most studies agree that cutting-edge technological applications are some of the most salient components in smart city development for creating higher efficiencies in urban systems [1,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. The incorporation of sensors and big data analytics enabled by the internet of things (IoT) is expected to promote operational efficiency in the design and administration of the cities that could bring about economic growth [6][7][8].…”

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Smart City Governance in Developing Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

2020

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Smart cities that make broad use of digital technologies have been touted as possible solutions for the population pressures faced by many cities in developing countries and may help meet the rising demand for services and infrastructure. Nevertheless, the high financial cost involved in infrastructure maintenance, the substantial size of the informal economies, and various governance challenges are curtailing government idealism regarding smart cities. This review examines the state of smart city development in developing countries, which includes understanding the conceptualisations, motivations, and unique drivers behind (and barriers to) smarty city development. A total of 56 studies were identified from a systematic literature review from an initial pool of 3928 social sciences literature identified from two academic databases. Data were analysed using thematic synthesis and thematic analysis. The review found that technologyenabled smart cities in developing countries can only be realised when concurrent socioeconomic, human, legal, and regulatory reforms are instituted. Governments need to step up their efforts to fulfil the basic infrastructure needs of citizens, raise more revenue, construct clear regulatory frameworks to mitigate the technological risks involved, develop human capital, ensure digital inclusivity, and promote environmental sustainability. A supportive ecosystem that encourages citizen participation, nurtures start-ups, and promotes public-private partnerships needs to be created to realise their smart city vision.

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Smart City Governance in Developing Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

2020

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“…For that reason, the smart adjective in tourism and destination domains, a phenomenon that began to be used in tourism research five years ago, is an extrapolation of smart city strategies to the tourism domain. Yigitcanlar [30,31] found eight pillars in the smart city concept that were acquired from destinations and smart tourism concepts: governance, planning productivity, innovation, liveability, wellbeing, sustainability, and accessibility.…”

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Transforming Communication Channels to the Co-Creation and Diffusion of Intangible Heritage in Smart Tourism Destination: Creation and Testing in Ceutí (Spain)

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Creating smart tourism destinations requires innovative solutions which cover the main pillars of sustainability as sociocultural, environmental, and economic aspects, in order to spread the cultural heritage of these tourist destinations to their visitors. One of the most demanded approaches by the new hyper-connected visitors is the expectation of plunging and becoming a short-term resident to receive a real experience during their visit. Therefore, the scope of this research covers the objective of designing an innovative communication channel between a visitor and a point of interest (POI), which in turn allows agile experiences to be built and provided and increases the dissemination of cultural heritage through new technologies, considering the real needs of the territories and the new digital visitors. In order to address these topics, this paper proposes an innovative and co-created progressive Web-App for visitors called Be Memories in order to spread the intangible heritage of a tourist destination, where the content is co-created by residents of the destination. The tool has been tested in Ceutí, a Spanish village with a high cultural value, which needs to be disseminated through new innovative tools. The trial was launched during local festivities of the village using an Internet of Things device, called a Smart Spot, to establish a communication channel between the visitor and POI.The results of the test were measured using Google Analytics, the reactions of Be Memories in social networks, and the acceptance of other cities and European committees. The results have concluded that Be Memories is able to enable a local experience via agile, fresh, and crowd-sourced content that people enjoy. This channel presents a complementary level of information with respect to official sources, documentaries, and local guide tours, at the same time enabling a mechanism to promote physical visits, walking tours, and cultural heritage via low-cost and sustainable infrastructure.The tool has been validated in Ceutí, with a highly cultural value, which requires new tools to spread their culture. To carry out the test of Be Memories, 15 Internet of Things (IoT) devices were deployed throughout the village. These devices are called Smart Spots. A Smart Spot generates an area called a smart point of interaction (Smart POI), which sends a notification (non-intrusive) with a URL through Bluetooth (nearby Google technology) and Wi-Fi (captive portal). This communication channel functions without the need to download a native application, facilitating the interaction by proximity [8]. The content of the pilot is composed of a progressive Web-App that offers a seed content (short video-interviews where the residents tell popular stories). The trial was launched during local festivities (6-19 August 2018).The structure of this article begins with the state-of-the-art, where the value of the pillars of sustainable tourism is presented. In addition, the concepts of a smart city and smart tourism destination are explained as the ...

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“…Indeed, smart city literature indicates urban planning as one of the most promising sectors for connecting the "data layer" of cities to the development of digital services for capitalising tangible and intangible resources in the city [13,14]. However, even recent smart city frameworks centred on social and governance aspects in the relationship between cities and technologies [15][16][17] tend to ignore that the fundamental scope of urban planning is orienting the economic growth and socio-cultural development of the city, in addition to its physical transformation [18]. Secondly, smart city strategies so far underexplored the strategic approach commonly adopted in urban planning to orient the city growth and development by using spatial arrangements as proxies for social and economic interventions on local resources [19].…”

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City Data Plan: The Conceptualisation of a Policy Instrument for Data Governance in Smart Cities

Lupi

2019

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This paper presents the conceptualisation of the City Data Plan, a data governance policy instrument intended to connect the production and use of urban data in a comprehensive and evolutive long-term strategy aligned with city development goals. The concept of the City Data Plan had been elaborated by taking into account current issues related to privacy and manipulation of data in smart city. The methodological approach adopted to define the nature of a City Data Plan is grounded on the conceptual and empirical parallelism with corporate data governance plans and general urban plans, respectively aimed to regulate decision-making powers and actions on data in enterprise contexts, and the interests of local stakeholders in the access and use of urban resources. The result of this analytic process is the formulation of the outline of a City Data Plan as a data governance policy instrument to support the iterative negotiation between the instances of data producers and data users for instantiating shared smart city visions. The conceptualisation of the City Data Plan includes a description of the multi-stakeholder organisational structures for the city data governance, cooperation protocols and decision areas, responsibilities assignments, components of the plan and its implementation mechanisms.

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Understanding ‘smart cities’: Intertwining development drivers with desired outcomes in a multidimensional framework

Cited by 424 publications

References 136 publications

Smart City Governance in Developing Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Smart City Governance in Developing Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Transforming Communication Channels to the Co-Creation and Diffusion of Intangible Heritage in Smart Tourism Destination: Creation and Testing in Ceutí (Spain)

City Data Plan: The Conceptualisation of a Policy Instrument for Data Governance in Smart Cities

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