A Different Approach to the Evaluation of Smart Cities’ Indicators

Skvarciany, Viktorija; Jurevičienė, Daiva; Žitkienė, Rima; Lapinskaitė, Indrė; Dudė, Ugnė

doi:10.2478/bjes-2021-0018

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“…The application of the proposed conceptual framework vital to be included as smart eco-city aspects, to ensure information protection (contributing to T06).  Performance of smart eco-cities measurements [20] and evaluation should be established through new metrics derived from smart eco-cities indices (contributing to all the indicators).…”

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Smart Eco-cities Conceptual Framework to Achieve UN-SDGs: A Case Study Application in Egypt

Tarek¹

2023

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Smart-eco cities are not a new concept, they appear while planning for a healthy and sustainable urban future. Notions like smart cities, sustainable cities, augmented cities, and ecological cities represent new norms and standards for applying the latest new smart technologies in addition to green environmental solutions in the planning of contemporary cities. The present study addresses the problem of the lack of guidelines that help in linking different principles of urban design and indicators of smart and ecological interventions in both the early planning and upgrading stage to support cities' sustainable future. Therefore, the research aims to identify smart-eco cities dimensions and indicators to use in developing a conceptual framework for developing smart-eco cities strategies, to be applied in cities nowadays. The study merges between smart and ecological urban dimensions as novel urban approaches in addition to focusing on the characteristics, guidelines, and indicators for smart and eco-cities to attain UN 2030 sustainable development goals. The present work follows a methodology that encompasses four parts. The First part is an integrative literature review for the main concepts, definitions, and dimensions for both smart cities and eco-cities in addition to SDGs. Moreover, it reviews and analyses different initiatives for cities that followed smart and ecological approaches. The Second part is an analytical approach proposing a matrix that combines both smart and eco-cities dimensions and indicators to achieve a healthier and sustainable urban future by mapping it to UN-SDGs. Moreover, a survey was administered to highlight the most effective indicators in developing smart eco-cities strategies. The Third part proposes a conceptual framework to be used for planning smart-eco cities for better urban futures. Finally, the study applies the proposed framework on a new Egyptian city as a case study to identify the potential of applying smart-eco cities concept in developing countries and limited resources settings. Research results indicate the capabilities derived by smart-eco cities that can assist in the adaptation and achieving SDGs for developing countries.

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“…known as soft infrastructures and human resources [18]. Moreover, there is a European approach that recognizes a smart city as a city with a good future in terms of six main pillars namely; smart economy, smart people, smart environment, smart living, smart mobility, and smart governance [19], [20].…”

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Smart Eco-cities Conceptual Framework to Achieve UN-SDGs: A Case Study Application in Egypt

Tarek¹

2023

cea

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“…Figure 6, below, shows the final combined ranking with a proposed list of indicators under each dimension, allowing for generating a specific rubric for measuring elements such as SSC deployment, progress, and compliance. [16,58,60,61,64,66,69,[76][77][78]113,114].…”

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Ranking Sustainable Smart City Indicators Using Combined Content Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process Techniques

Gazzeh

2023

Smart Cities

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Sustainable Smart Cities have a significant potential to ensure equal access to public services, achieve sustainability and governance transparency, improve livability, and anticipate and mitigate increasingly changing threats. This study aims at prioritizing a core set of Sustainable Smart City (SSC) indicators using a combined methodology: (a) Content Analysis and (b) Analytical Hierarchy Process. The study’s contribution is that it successfully developed a more robust ranking of the above-mentioned set of indicators by combining AHP and co-occurrence analyses. The final combined ranking is intended to serve as a Decision Support Tool to streamline the decision-making process and help decision-makers prioritize dimensions to measure, achieve, or monitor actions when they cannot be undertaken simultaneously in contexts of economic recessions, financial constraints, and resource mobilization challenges. The findings draw attention to the need for considering the concept of SSCs through the prism of interconnecting the various current technology-driven “smart silos” under an inclusive umbrella that focuses on the combinations and connectedness to achieve a systemic approach to sustainability and smartness that none of those single areas can achieve in isolation. The results also revealed an interesting paradox, which relegated the Technology and ICT dimension to the bottom of the ranking, contrary to the widespread consensus and opinion, opening an opportunity for discussion among peers.

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“…and revealed that cities cannot be truly smart without being sustainable in the first place [30]. On a higher level, sustainability or its varied forms can become key indicators for measuring cities' smartness, such as conservation of natural resources [31] and environment impact from energy use [32]. Smart cities are designed to promote sustainability, ensuring access to essential human development and well-being [30].…”

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Understanding Sustainable Energy in the Context of Smart Cities: A PRISMA Review

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In the context of smart cities, sustainability is an essential dimension. One of the ways to achieve sustainability and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in smart cities is through the promotion of sustainable energy. The demand for affordable and reliable electrical energy requires different energy sources, where the cost of production often outweighs the environmental factor. This paper aims to investigate the ways smart cities promote sustainability in the electricity sector. For this, a systematic literature review using the PRISMA protocol was employed as the methodological approach. In this review, 154 journal articles were thoroughly analyzed. The results were grouped according to the themes and categorized into energy efficiency, renewable energies, and energy and urban planning. The study findings revealed the following: (a) global academic publication landscape for smart city and energy sustainability research; (b) unbalanced publications when critically evaluating geographical continents’ energy use intensity vs. smart cities’ energy sustainability research outcomes; (c) there is a heavy concentration on the technology dimension of energy sustainability and efficiency, and renewables topics in the literature, but much less attention is paid to the energy and urban planning issues. The insights generated inform urban and energy authorities and provide scholars with directions for prospective research.

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A Different Approach to the Evaluation of Smart Cities’ Indicators

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Smart Eco-cities Conceptual Framework to Achieve UN-SDGs: A Case Study Application in Egypt

Smart Eco-cities Conceptual Framework to Achieve UN-SDGs: A Case Study Application in Egypt

Ranking Sustainable Smart City Indicators Using Combined Content Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process Techniques

Understanding Sustainable Energy in the Context of Smart Cities: A PRISMA Review

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