Triangular Pyramid Trunk: The Three Axes of the Smart City Assessment Tool

Correia, Diogo; Teixeira, Leonor; Marques, João Lourenço

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“…SC provides an opportunity to achieve a desired, normative, dream city. Of late, SC has transformed from a purely technological paradigm to a holistic, integrated strategy (Correia et al, 2020) to achieve a desired city. As we saw, SCM allocates a central position to people and recognizes collaborative roles of smart technologies in enhancing economic potentialities of cities and achieving sustainable and resilient cities.…”

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Fractured smart cities: Missing links in India’s smart city mission

Singh

Upadhyay

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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The postscripts of smart cities have been written before its prelude. Inserting smart technologies in infrastructure to improve urban environments, smart cities emphasize data-driven approaches and evidence-based planning. While it asks for production of new vocabularies, new ways of thinking, and proposes new methodologies, smart cities have trivialized baseline surveys. The insignificance to baseline survey hides the existing and functioning cities and leads to appropriation of “smart in the box” technologies. The omission of baseline survey fails to revamp planning and governance techniques as well as management and delivery of urban services. India’s Smart City Mission runs through a similar fate. Despite changes in vision and approach towards urban improvement, Smart City Mission suffers from methodological apathy and produces fractured smart cities. In doing so, the paper explores how the idea of normative smart city shrouds urban complexities and heterogeneities and proposes solutions without comprehending the functional and existing cities. Drawing on cases of urban water and solid waste management in Smart City Dharamshala, this paper discusses how fissures in normative and functional smart cities are continually produced through broken, incomplete, and erroneous data that, ultimately, fails in creating robust and resilient cities.

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Fractured smart cities: Missing links in India’s smart city mission

Singh

Upadhyay

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…Several smart city frameworks can be found in the literature [13][14][15][16][17][18]. However, there is a lack of a practical and accepted standard framework to guide and monitor the city's progress [19].…”

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Reviewing the State-of-the-Art of Smart Cities in Portugal: Evidence Based on Content Analysis of a Portuguese Magazine

2021

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The lack of examples of smart-city initiatives and the sharing of best practices in Portugal confirm the gap in the transference of empirical knowledge to the scientific literature in this area. The smart-city concept has passed through three stages. However, its evolution has not been noted equally throughout countries and their territories. The literature only provides information about specific projects implemented in a few cities. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to study the state-of-the-art of smart cities in Portugal by analyzing 25 editions of the most relevant national-wide smart-cities magazine. First, the objective of analyzing the magazine was to study each Portuguese city in terms of the subject areas and types of existing initiatives in order, ultimately, to frame cities within their respective smart-city phases, as per the literature. Second, the aim of the paper was also to provide information about the evolution of the concept through analyses of embedded experts’ quotes. The results of the first are complemented with the analysis of interviews with policymakers to provide information about the existing challenges to implementing a smart city and to understand the role of government therein. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed on the case study. The findings suggest that the three smart-city phases are perceived in slightly different ways in Portugal and heterogeneity within the country can be noted from the lack of strategies and a standard framework.

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“…in terms of city assessment, the existing frameworks have been mostly used to rank the cities, mixing up different concepts, and not consider the evolution noticed in the smart City concept. However, they present significant insights (see more at [68]). For example, sharifi [78] concluded that assessment tools do not consider indicators' interlinkages and correlations as well as local needs and participatory approaches; Ahyenniemi et al [59] demonstrated that smart City assessment tools are focused on social aspects and the sustainable Cities' on the environment; Huovila et al [79] concluded that 90% of the key performance indicators (KPis) from iso 37120 were focused on sustainability and the itu 4902 had a purely iCt-enabled indicator orientation.…”

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“…Following Correia, teixeira and marques [68], the primary KPis will be collected from iso 37120, itu 4901 and mercer's annual quality of life survey. two axes shall be considered with two different approaches each:…”

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“…the europe 2020 strategy was focused on three priorities [67]: sustainable growth (low-carbon economy), smart growth (education, research and innovation) and inclusive growth (jobs and wealth). these are reflected on the three axes (sustainability, innovation and Quality of life) of the triangular Pyramid trunk proposed by Correia et al [68]. nevertheless, the vertical of smart Cities is considered under the umbrella of 'smart growth', leaving sustainability and inclusiveness aside [66].…”

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City@Path: A Collaborative Smart City Planning and Assessment Tool

Correia¹,

Marques²,

Teixeira³

2021

Int. J. TDI

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the lack of strategic planning has increased urban pressure and accumulated traffic in cities. smart Cities are replacing the short-time perspective with a long-term approach. the objectives align with city strategic goals, and citizens play an essential role in the decision-making process. High-level guidelines have emerged over the years to guide smart Cities' vision and implementation. However, the lack of a tool that combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to help local policymakers plan and assess cities is still notorious. moreover, this paper provides a methodology that allows the definition of structural priorities and contextual preferences while comparing policymakers' statements and citizens' opinions. Furthermore, this paper designs an approach to fill the existing gap and give policymakers a framework to monitor and measure their performance based on standard Key Performance indicators and select relevant initiatives toward meeting the defined goals. this way, policymakers possess a tool that allows on the one hand, the standard comparison between cities and, on the other hand, the personalized comparison of their territory over time. Finally, a test case with the premise of improving city logistics is described to practically detail the guidelines of the proposed tool'.

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Triangular Pyramid Trunk: The Three Axes of the Smart City Assessment Tool

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

Fractured smart cities: Missing links in India’s smart city mission

Fractured smart cities: Missing links in India’s smart city mission

Reviewing the State-of-the-Art of Smart Cities in Portugal: Evidence Based on Content Analysis of a Portuguese Magazine

City@Path: A Collaborative Smart City Planning and Assessment Tool

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