Smart Sustainable Cities: Using a Fuzzy Inference System To Determine their Global Score

Abstract

This article assumes the premise that there is no alternative other than sustainable development. The necessary escalation to sustainability will force organizations and public administration to adopt an adequate stand to the sustainable development, mainly when it comes to the promotion of policies that shall guarantee the fulfillment of the triple bottom line (sustainability tripod) for the next generations, also respecting cultural and political issues. This research has collected data from four cities all around the globe using forty-six 'ISO 37.120:2018' core indicators. We have compared, using an adapted fuzzy logic model, the general sustainability score of cities in developing and developed countries. The event of trying to determine a methodology that can be used by any city of any country requires a considerable amount of researching, especially when it comes to choosing which better indicators are fit to the challenge -at the end of the article, we offer a schematic of a smart sustainable city, which we have called "sustainability mandala". Using the same system (with different weighs for each variable,), those answers will help public managers to understand their indexes as a result of positive efforts over the indicators, always on the pursuit of a really sustainable society.Abstract-This article assumes the premise that there is no alternative other than sustainable development. The necessary escalation to sustainability will force organizations and public administration to adopt an adequate stand to the sustainable development, mainly when it comes to the promotion of policies that shall guarantee the fulfillment of the triple bottom line (sustainability tripod) for the next generations, also respecting cultural and political issues. This research has collected data from four cities all around the globe using fortysix 'ISO 37.120:2018' core indicators. We have compared, using an adapted fuzzy logic model, the general sustainability score of cities in developing and developed countries. The event of trying to determine a methodology that can be used by any city of any country requires a considerable amount of researching, especially when it comes to choosing which better indicators are fit to the challenge -at the end of the article, we offer a schematic of a smart sustainable city, which we have called "sustainability mandala". Using the same system (with different weighs for each variable,), those answers will help public managers to understand their indexes as a result of positive efforts over the indicators, always on the pursuit of a really sustainable society.

A Cross-National Spatial Study of Crime Using Variables Informed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

“…Several studies have examined the relevance of applying a variety of standards, including the ISO, to provide support for policy development and future planning (see Gonzalez-Garcia et al, 2019; Hong et al, 2019; Leonova et al, 2018). One notable example includes De Campos Filho et al (2019) who used ISO 37120 indicators to compare the sustainability of four cities: Tbilisi (Georgia), Guadalajara (Mexico), Boston (USA), and London (UK). The researchers produced comparative sustainability scores on a range of measures in these cities which enabled city managers and other relevant stakeholders to benchmark and compare the position of their city globally in terms of its sustainability.…”

“…In terms of the former, a study by Groeneveld and Breetzke (in press) found a 20% difference in model performance when operationalizing the social disorganization theory using different sets of variables. Standardized indicators or variables have been used in a number of studies of sustainable development globally (Bortnik, 2019; De Campos Filho et al, 2019; Hong et al, 2019; Huovila et al, 2019; Leonova et al, 2018), yet no studies have attempted to examine their utility in spatial crime analysis. This study represents the first empirical attempt to use ISO indicators to compare and contrast the spatial risk factors for crime in two axiomatically different contexts.…”