Abstract
The continuous growth of cities brings out various concerns for improved development and management of the multifaceted urban systems, including those of resilience and smartness. Despite the many significant efforts in the research field, both notions remain changeable, thus retaining the lack of commonly accepted conceptual and terminological frameworks. The paper’s research goals are to designate the current direct and indirect links in the conceptualizations and research trends of the resilience and smart city frameworks and to prove the potential of the conceptual convergence between them in the context of urban systems. The application of a semi-systematic literature review, including bibliometric evidence and followed by content analysis, has led to the observation that as the resilience discourse opens up to embrace other dimensions, including technology, the smart city research turns its interest to the perspective of urban protection. Therefore, both concepts share the goal for urban sustainability realized through specific capacities and processes and operationalized with the deployment of technology. The paper’s findings suggest that the conceptual and operational foundations of these two concepts could support the emergence of an integrated framework. Such a prospect acknowledges the instrumental role of the smart city approach in the pursuit of urban resilience and unfolds a new model for sustainable city management and development.
Highlights
While it is argued that the term “smart city” provides a wider conceptual framework in which different dimensions are developed, practically it is, mainly, conceived as a city development model based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applications [70]
The findings of the research analysis clearly suggest that urban resilience and smartness are not two entirely independent concepts, but rather two complementary frameworks in the context of urban systems determined by gradually converging fundamental parameters that exist in both frameworks
Despite the vagueness that characterizes the understanding of the resilience and the smart city concepts, they are increasingly employed together in several theoretical and operational studies; the framework of this integration is still unclear
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. For the last 20 years, the concepts of resilience and smart city have been addressed as frameworks for infrastructure and urban development, and the respective research and applications have established new requirements and new perspectives for the built environment. Baron [1] suggested that the two concepts are “operationalized on the basis of similar or even the same systems, having similar trajectories of development and similar dilemmas to be solved”. The two concepts should be interlinked or, at least, converge, both a simple reading of the concepts’ definitions and the literature findings [2,3,4]
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