Who Uses Smart City Services and What to Make of It: Toward Interdisciplinary Smart Cities Research

Lytras, Miltiadis D.; Visvizi, Anna

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“…According to exchange theory, this phenomenon can be understood as a kind of exchange of realism, that is, the exchange of individual privacy information for high-quality services [38]. Safety experience refers to the security residents feel when using SISS, especially the perception of personal information and that their behaviors are not disclosed and utilized [39]. In the process of information transmission and processing, whether information will be leaked will affect the user's psychological cognition and behavioral judgment [40,41].…”

Section: Residents' Safety Experience and Their Swb In The Smart Citymentioning

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Smart City Development and Residents’ Well-Being

Lin

Zhao

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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The development of smart cities has greatly improved the living and working environment of urban residents, but whether it can enhance the happiness of urban residents is a controversial topic. In this study, we investigate residents' experiences of obtaining information, services and networks in smart cities from the aspects of safety, usefulness and convenience, and empirically explore their relationship with residents' subjective well-being (SWB). The results show that residents' safety, usefulness and convenience experiences of obtaining information, services and networks in smart cities all have positive impacts on their SWB, and the relationship between residents' safety experience and SWB is, to a certain extent, mediated by their usefulness and convenience experiences.

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Section: Residents' Safety Experience and Their Swb In The Smart Citymentioning

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Smart City Development and Residents’ Well-Being

Lin

Zhao

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…The authors look at the smart cities debate from the complex perspective of, on the one hand, citizens' awareness of applications and solutions considered 'smart' and, on the other hand, their ability to use these applications and solutions. Drawing from the outcomes of their empirical research, the authors argue that more pragmatism needs to be induced in smart cities research if its findings are to remain useful and relevant for all stakeholders involved [2].…”

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“…In this way, research on smart villages stands to avoid the loop of 'normative bias' [1] characteristic to considerable body of smart cities research. Indeed, all too frequently, research on smart cities builds upon the assumption that smart city services will contribute to wellbeing and quality of life of cities' inhabitants, thus disregarding the basic fact that the assumed users of services that advances in ICT make feasible are unwilling or unable to use them [2]. If the sustainability of research on smart cities is a function of its relevance and usability, then more pragmatism needs to be induced into this research [2].…”

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“…Indeed, all too frequently, research on smart cities builds upon the assumption that smart city services will contribute to wellbeing and quality of life of cities' inhabitants, thus disregarding the basic fact that the assumed users of services that advances in ICT make feasible are unwilling or unable to use them [2]. If the sustainability of research on smart cities is a function of its relevance and usability, then more pragmatism needs to be induced into this research [2]. As research on smart villages is still nascent, and its disciplinary origins different than those of smart cities, the prospect is that, by focusing first, on problems and challenges villages face, and only afterwards on what ICT can offer, the temptation to do the opposite might be prevented.…”

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It’s Not a Fad: Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research in European and Global Contexts

2018

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Abstract:Research on smart cities matures and new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of smart cities are proposed. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas tend to be addressed, as if by the way, i.e., as a part of discussions in neighboring fields of research, be it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Arguably, the concept of 'the village' has been largely absent in the academic debate, even if rural areas and countryside communities have been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union's Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village remained underdiscussed in the literature. Through this Special Issue, and the Editors' earlier research on this topic, the Editors hope that the idea of the 'smart village' will be introduced into the debate. Against this backdrop, the objective of this opening review is three-fold: (i) to outline the conceptual boundaries of the term smart village, (ii) to highlight the thrust of the challenge inherent in smart villages research, and (iii) to shed light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds. The relevance and validity of these claims are supported by references to research submitted to the Special Issue titled "Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research".

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“…In particular, the Smart Cities paradigm today aims to quantify and measure urban patterns and processes in a positivist approach to understanding, controlling, and improving cities through information technology (Angelo and Vormann, 2018;Kitchin, 2016;Krivý, 2018;Townsend, 2015;Watson, 2015). As an epistemological project, Smart Cities research and practice take many diverse forms (Albino et al, 2015;Ismagilova et al, 2019;Lytras and Visvizi, 2018;Stone et al, 2018;Visvizi et al, 2018).…”

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Spatial information and the legibility of urban form: Big data in urban morphology

Boeing

2021

International Journal of Information Management

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Urban planning and morphology have relied on analytical cartography and visual communication tools for centuries to illustrate spatial patterns, propose designs, compare alternatives, and engage the public. Classic urban form visualizations -from Giambattista Nolli's ichnographic maps of Rome to Allan Jacobs's figure-ground diagrams of city streets -have compressed physical urban complexity into easily comprehensible information artifacts. Today we can enhance these traditional workflows through the Smart Cities paradigm of understanding cities via user-generated content and harvested data in an information management context. New spatial technology platforms and big data offer new lenses to understand, evaluate, monitor, and manage urban form and evolution. This paper builds on the theoretical framework of visual cultures in urban planning and morphology to introduce and situate computational data science processes for exploring urban fabric patterns and spatial order. It demonstrates these workflows with OSMnx and data from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative spatial information system and mapping platform, to examine street network patterns, orientations, and configurations in different study sites around the world, considering what these reveal about the urban fabric. The age of ubiquitous urban data and computational toolkits opens up a new era of worldwide urban form analysis from integrated quantitative and qualitative perspectives.Cite: Boeing, G.

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Who Uses Smart City Services and What to Make of It: Toward Interdisciplinary Smart Cities Research

Cited by 285 publications

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It’s Not a Fad: Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research in European and Global Contexts

Spatial information and the legibility of urban form: Big data in urban morphology

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