Abstract
Abstract. Recently, rapid urbanization and population growth rises complexity, problems, challenges to cities, and then cause more competition between them. The smart city, as a new emerging concept, becomes a crustal solution for many cities to increase their territorial competitiveness, which is essential for cities to success. The paper aims to prove the role of the smart city to increase the territorial competitiveness of five cities namely, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat. These cities are affected by the political disturbances in the Arab world despite that; they try to build smart cities (through many projects) to face a global challenge of cities. Dubai is the smartest territorially competitive, all the five cities increase their indicators of competitiveness with a large difference between cities that exist in Asia and Africa while all of them are still delayed in the capacity to innovate.
Highlights
Cities face many problems and challenges to survive due to population growth and rapid urbanization, green spaces are affected by these problems in different areas of the urban environment
After presenting the literature on territorial competitiveness and the smart city and the link between the two concepts, this paper shows the benchmark analysis of the five Arab smart cities included in the study
The objective of this study is to evaluate the territorial competitiveness of these five cities in 2017. 3.1 Indicators
Summary
Cities face many problems and challenges to survive due to population growth and rapid urbanization, green spaces are affected by these problems in different areas of the urban environment. The concept of a smart city is even not clearly defined in the academic literature, it can make cities capable of absorbing population density and spatial expansion intelligently, and they can be competitive territorially. Due to the recent transformations in the Arab world contexts (political revolutions), there is an important capacity for the smart cities to rise and be competitive with other cities of the world. The objective of the paper is to prove the role of the smart city to increase the territorial competitiveness of five Arab cities, namely, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat, which are working on many projects for building a smart city. After presenting the literature on territorial competitiveness and the smart city and the link between the two concepts, this paper shows the benchmark analysis of the five Arab smart cities included in the study
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