Abstract
This study explores projects to regenerate old urban spaces and introduce smart city systems. It focuses on citizen perspectives and ways to build a citizen-centered smart city. A survey of 624 residents was undertaken in three South Korean cities where relevant projects have been implemented. The Hierarchical Regression Model was employed to learn what factors affect citizens’ overall preferences for smart city projects. The analysis found that citizens prefer the services closely linked to their everyday lives, and that those with lower quality of life regarding housing circumstances and safety show greater interest in smart city projects, albeit there are differences among the cities. They also view and prefer those projects as a means of resolving everyday problems and local economic development, rather than seeking specific technologies or devices. Based on these results, this research presents implications and suggestions to link urban regeneration plans to smart city projects.
Highlights
Citizens have become a point of emphasis in the discourse surrounding smart cities, following its increasing focus on technocratic and instrumental aspects in the early 2000s
This research’s literature review emphasized the importance of collecting opinions from citizens, when pushing for the simultaneous introduction of projects for urban regeneration and smart city infrastructures, especially when there are limitations in budget and other physical factors. It sorted out appropriate technologies, facilities, and services (TFS) for launching a smart city project at three similar sites; it measured citizens’ demographic characteristics and their objective and subjective quality of life in order to introduce subjective factors in the statistical model and examine factors that affect citizens’ preference regarding smart cities
When the independent variable groups were included in the regression model—one after the other—the explanatory power grew during each step to describe the dependent variable
Summary
Citizens have become a point of emphasis in the discourse surrounding smart cities, following its increasing focus on technocratic and instrumental aspects in the early 2000s. We must highlight citizen-centric smart city initiative, which promotes the importance of citizens’ political and social participation for implementing a smart city project based on planning, management, and stewardship [1]. In the urban planning field, citizen and community inputs have been emphasized in the planning and designing of smart cities’ physical environments—for example, the establishment of a community-level service [3]. This indicates that a smart city of the date should address two challenges: a complete consideration of civil societies when deploying smart city technologies and facilities in urban spaces, and the supply of appropriate services for meeting citizens’ needs
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