Search results for "SMART CITY"
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Smartness, City Efficiency and Entrepreneurship Milieu
2017
The definition of smart city and its measurement are not shared. Different characteristics define a city as smart, which is strictly linked to urban efficiency and to entrepreneurship spirit in a multifaceted way as well as to citizens’ well-being. On the basis of the comparison between city and entrepreneur behaviour and on the definition of Giffinger et al. (2007) of smart city, this chapter verifies the efficiency of a sample of European cities using a stochastic frontier approach. Departing from this analysis, the chapter develops the relative smartness definition based on the efficient use of its own resources and related to the different context. Moreover, as a city becomes close to t…
Ética de las capacidades y desarrollo local. Una aplicación de economía, política pública y gobernanza
2015
Las ciudades europeas, cuna de la civilización urbana, se enfrentan a los retos de adaptarse y liderar la transformación del desarrollo urbano consecuencia de la transformación de la base productiva local a través del uso de la tecnología digital, la economía del conocimiento y la sociedad en red. El sistema urbano europeo del siglo XXI, multipolar, caracterizado por ciudades de tamaño medio, está configurando una nueva dimensión de la ciudad a través de nuevas grandes áreas funcionales, necesarias para competir en una economía globalizada. Las regiones metropolitanas, han generado un intenso debate tanto en el mundo académico como en los dirigentes locales sobre el modelo de ciudad que per…
Special Section on ITS Services to Smart City Context [Guest Editorial]
2018
The seven articles in this special section focus on new trends and developments in the intelligent transportation markets. Since the earliest of times, transportation has changed and revolutionized society and industry. Many of technology advances were focused on transportation and their means (road, rail, air, water, etc.) even, today there exist several areas of the knowledge that are focused on it. As time goes by, new terms have been established where technology is present as well, for instance, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Smart Cities, Smart Territory, Blockchain, Internet of Things, virtualization, Cloud computing, Intelligent Vehicles, embedded computing, Deep learning,…
Urban smart mobility in the scientific literature — bibliometric analysis
2018
Abstract This article aims at identification of the main trends in scientific literature characterising urban smart mobility, on the basis of bibliometric analysis of articles published in the ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases. The study period was set from 2000 to 2017. Authors used a basic technique of the bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature characterising urban smart mobility with the support of the VOSviewer software. The analysis included the number of publications, citation analysis, research area analysis and the most frequent keywords. The analysis led to taking notice of current research trends dealing with the urban smart mobility. The core of the paper is a t…
Conceptualizing Core Aspects on Circular Economy in Cities
2021
Currently, there are many different interpretations in the literature of what a circular economy is and how it functions. As cities are still facing challenges to become fully sustainable, the need for a comprehensive analysis of how the circular economy can be implemented in urban areas is increasing. This article aims at outlining circular cities by their key characteristics and to further explore and provide a framework for fostering circularity at the city level. In order to achieve this goal, we performed a systematic review and analyzed key papers published in the field of circular economy to determine how circular economy practices form circular cities. We discovered that cities play…
General Overview
2016
Il capitolo introduce alla tematica smart city attraverso un exscursus storico che ne traccia i passaggi salienti: la nascita delle politiche globali ambientali sino al livello della maturità raggiunto con il Protocollo di Kyoto (1997); poi ancora il Pacchetto Clima 20-20-20 redatto dalla Commissione Europea nel 2008 che traccia un'altro punto cruciale che prelude ai progetti e alle iniziative in ambito smart cities. La Strategia Energetica Europea al 2050 rappresenta il quadro di riferimento a cui tendere. Il capitolo si conclude con una rassegna dei sistemi di ranking più popolari e con una proposta di analisi. The chapter introduces to smart city issue through a historical excursus, whic…
The Role of Technology in Participative Processes
2016
Smart city is more and more, in the common feeling, the crossroad of technologies, but first and foremost, the place where humans, contexts and technologies meet and must interact. Technological systems thanks to the deep human interaction acquire an uncertain behaviour that can be hardly modelled and controlled. The resulting complexity, cannot be easily handled with the tools that are available to separate scientific fields. The interdisciplinarity that comes from the implementation of technologies and the dialogue between these and the territories requires new tools for classification and design. New urban design tools are needed allowing to identify in a standardized way adequate suppor…
Tessuti sociali e spinte co-creative in politiche e fenomeni di resilienza urbana
2014
A fronte dei fattori di crisi rilevati dalle scienze economiche la questione dei futuri assetti spaziali delle città ed in particolare di quelle di livello metropolitano non sembra essere così decisiva come è apparso, ad esempio, alla Commissione Europea, a partire dalla programmazione di Agenda 2000 e soprattutto con la nuova programmazione 2014-2020 che consente alle città metropolitane di darsi una dotazione di smartness mediante risorse finanziarie pubbliche significative, l'enfasi delle politiche di investimenti pubblici concentrati sulle città si fonda su un supposto ruolo guida che non aggancia i reali fattori della loro crescita prima ancora che di uno sviluppo durevole. Nel periodo…
For a “Living (Lab)” Approach to Smart Cities
2016
Thanks to the diffusion of information and communication technologies, and despite the huge margins of improvement of the operating conditions of the Web, sharing an idea can be today the starting point for the birth of either a start-up or a community of interests, able to achieve a variety of goals without the intervention of any public institution. In relation to such a ferment of successful micro-level initiatives, Territorial Living Labs are here interpreted as place-based ecosystems of co-creation of goods, services as well as new organizational and social models of smart urban life. From this interpretation, the necessity strongly emerges of a coherent and viable reference framework …
How Smart Cities Explore New Technologies
2019
The concept of smart city is considered as a new paradigm of urban development. Information and communication technologies are expected to transform cities into smart cities and improve the citizens’ quality of life. However, smart city initiatives still have difficulties to leverage value from technology opportunities. How smart city initiatives examine the possibilities of new technologies is therefore a highly interesting question. Based on a multiple case study we identify two different approaches and factors that influence the choice of approach: Cities either initially focus on use cases solving urban challenges, or on a systematic build-up of a technological platform for future use c…