Innovating urban policymaking and planning mechanisms to deliver knowledge-based agendas: a methodological approach

Yiğitcanlar, Tan

doi:10.1504/ijkbd.2014.065300

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Thus, transportation development is sensitive to political priorities" [21] (p. 29). In addition, Yigitcanlar [22] argues that the ability to intervene and coordinate responses to economic, environmental, and governance problems must be constantly monitored, as these problems have become more and more pressing issues in the current debates on cities. He also declares that knowledge of urban agendas has become a vital tool for urban development planning.…”

Section: Sustainable Mobility and Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Policies and Mobility Trends in Italian Smart Cities

2017

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This study uses indicators to evaluate the progress made by Italian cities in the smart mobility sector, in order to understand how these cities have approached the new guidelines imposed by the European Union, and how they have implemented the European changes. Specifically, this study analyses the evolution of public transportation systems, using a sample of twenty-two Italian cities for three successive time periods (2005, 2010, and 2015). The outcomes identified are then linked to funding provided for the implementation of projects related to smart mobility in the cities studied, in order to verify possible correlations between the growth of these services and European and national financial investments. The data analysis shows remarkable progress in the field of sustainable mobility, especially between 2010 and 2015 as well as how this progress is linked to significant financial support that favours the realization of projects related to smart mobility.

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Section: Sustainable Mobility and Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Policies and Mobility Trends in Italian Smart Cities

2017

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“…A large number of studies investigated the role of innovation in establishing a competitive edge in companies, communities and cities (Fernández-Jardón et al 2014;Gadille and Siarheyeva 2014;Lepik and Krigul 2014;Romano et al 2014;Yigitcanlar 2014;Mellor 2015;Park and Lee 2015;Yun 2015;Kim et al 2016;Yun et al 2016). Furthermore, the important role of open innovation for smart city formation is discussed in the literature.…”

Section: Does Innovation Make a City Smart?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Literature review in general and the analysis of the particular works of Nam and Pardo (2011) and Neirotti et al (2014) suggest the existence of four key foundations or macro application domains for the approaches of smart cities (including variations of terms), listed below and also illustrated in (ii) Creative economy and knowledge-based society: Improving competitiveness and alignment to the so-called knowledge economy (Komninos 2006(Komninos , 2009) with focus on creating favourable environments to entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation (Florida 2005;Lu et al 2011;Yigitcanlar 2014;Yigitcanlar et al 2015);…”

Section: Smart Cities Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartness that matters: towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities

Lara

Costa

Furlani

et al. 2016

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The term 'smart cities' is a widely used, but at the same time a highly fuzzy concept. The fuzziness hinders our understanding on the benefits of its adoption, and explains the existence of many relevant activities with fragmented or distorted views of what a truly smart city is. The aim of this paper is to undertake a comprehensive review of how smart cities are perceived in the literature and in the light of the findings propose a clearer definition. Overview of the key terms, concepts and definitions associated to smart cities, reported in this paper, demonstrates that the definitions found in the academic literature have limited scope, and are overly focused on strategic drivers and specific actions, instead of making explicitly the connection between the concept of smart cities and the creation of environments that promote happiness and wellbeing of their residents-which should be the main function of a city. Following the thorough review on the smart cities literature, the paper proposes a comprehensive, human-centred, and context-free definition for smart cities. This definition brings an endogenous view on smart cities in which the central element is the direct participation of local actors and stakeholders in the process of thinking, defining, planning, and executing social, technological and urban transformations in cities.

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“…2 Knowledge-based, smart and sustainable city conceptual framework challenges, in order to enable a KBUD dynamics (Yigitcanlar 2014b). It is an integrated approach since it has a system thinking way of addressing effective solutions for complex urban issues that are interconnected and usually create multiple impacts.…”

Section: Knowledge Management Integrated Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge-based, smart and sustainable cities: a provocation for a conceptual framework

Chang

Marques

Costa

et al. 2018

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The smart and sustainable cities concept has become a globally hot topic during the last few decades, particularly following the catastrophic impacts of global climate change. The assessment of smart and sustainable cities, however, is a major challenge due to complex, complicated, and chaotic nature of our cities. This makes the available monitoring and evaluation tools difficult to adopt and apply in different urban contexts to support urban planning and governance and foster evidence-based policymaking. In order to address this issue, the paper brings together knowledge-based development concept with smart and sustainable cities. Knowledge-based development is a vision of development that considers knowledge as the central structuring element of a development strategy. Similarly, its more territory focused version, knowledge-based urban development is an integrated approach for the transition of cities and regions into sustainable, liveable and prosperous localities. The methodological approach of the paper includes the review of the literature on existing approaches on smart and sustainable cities assessment, describing their main aspects, strengths and limitations, and discuss the potential contribution of a knowledge-based urban development strategy for the successful promotion of smart and sustainable cities, presented in a proposed conceptual framework.

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Innovating urban policymaking and planning mechanisms to deliver knowledge-based agendas: a methodological approach

Cited by 24 publications

References 56 publications

Urban Policies and Mobility Trends in Italian Smart Cities

Urban Policies and Mobility Trends in Italian Smart Cities

Smartness that matters: towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities

Knowledge-based, smart and sustainable cities: a provocation for a conceptual framework

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