Abstract
This research aims to analyze the relationship between economic, social and digital performance in cities of different sizes in Brazil. Data provided by the following official agencies: National Treasury Secretariat, National Mayors' Front and Risk Classification Agency were used. Pearson's correlation was used to identify the influence of digital, social, and economic performance variables in cities divided into groups based on the number of inhabitants. There was a strong correlation between Communication and Information Technologies and social and economic aspects. The greater the needs of cities, the more intense is the use of Communication and Information Technologies, reinforcing the establishment of the perspective of smart cities.
Highlights
The question of how social arrangements contribute to the performance of cities has attracted the attention of many researchers interested in understanding the factors involved in the best performance of cities and the indicators used to measure this performance (Amankwaa & Blay's, 2018)
The authors identified that over time there has been an alternation of concepts used in city studies, with emphasis on the terms eco-city, green city, sustainable city, habitable city, city of knowledge, ubiquitous city, low carbon city, information city, and smart city - more recently added to these concepts - that of sanctuary city proposed by Ridgley (2011) and resilient city analyzed by Ribeiro and Gonçalves (2019)
Cities, which present this good performance of digital indicators, position themselves as attractive to people whose activities are supported by ICTs
Summary
The question of how social arrangements contribute to the performance of cities has attracted the attention of many researchers interested in understanding the factors involved in the best performance of cities and the indicators used to measure this performance (Amankwaa & Blay's, 2018). For Prado-Lorenzo, García-Sánchez, and Cuadrado-Ballesteros (2012) the analysis of cities is not limited to negative factors such as pollution, crime, congestion, among others; for them, the understanding of cities must establish an approach that incorporates the sources of development and innovation, which amalgamate the poles of economic, social, environmental, and cultural incentives, beneficial to society. As indicated by Tanguay, Rajaonson, Lefebvre and Lanoie (2010) and Ahvenniemi, Huovila, Pinto-Seppä and Airaksinen (2017) despite the existence of common elements, in the conceptual propositions of the cities, there is a distinction in the approaches of the economic, social, environmental, and technological variables presented in the conceptual consolidation. The authors identified that over time there has been an alternation of concepts used in city studies, with emphasis on the terms eco-city, green city, sustainable city, habitable city, city of knowledge, ubiquitous city, low carbon city, information city, and smart city - more recently added to these concepts - that of sanctuary city proposed by Ridgley (2011) and resilient city analyzed by Ribeiro and Gonçalves (2019)
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