Theory Of Smart City Research Articles

The collaboration dilemma in smart city projects: Time to ask the right questions

This Connexions article links collaboration in smart city projects, a contemporary and undertheorised social challenge, with theories on assemblage thinking, organisation, and public value creation. Using this multidisciplinary lens, we critically analyse smart city theory and expose the inability of prevailing collaborative models to properly account for the complexities of real-world practices. Building on our observations, we formulate a new and more robust theoretical perspective on smart city collaboration, which helps us trigger new research questions that focus on procedural, relational and diversity factors previously ignored.

A Dynamic Perspective on Collaborative Innovation for Smart City Development: The role of uncertainty, governance, and institutional logics

Collaborative innovation is at the heart of smart city development, yet also notoriously challenging due to fundamental differences between public and private sector actors that need to collaborate, while dealing with high levels of uncertainty. Whereas existing practice-based work on collaborative innovation describes various relevant antecedents, barriers and success factors, this prior work potentially underestimates the true complexity of collaborative innovation initiatives. Therefore, scholars have increasingly called for a more dynamic, theoretical understanding of collaborative innovation. In response to these calls, our study draws on institutional theory to build a dynamic understanding of collaborative innovation for smart city development. Specifically, we conduct a longitudinal in-depth case study to develop a causal loop model, grounded in rich qualitative data, to capture and theorize the key behavioural patterns of a collaborative innovation initiative for smart city development. The model describes how the dynamic interplay between uncertainty, adherence to own institutional logics and governance complexity can both enable and undermine collaborative initiatives. We contribute by developing a dynamic theoretical perspective on collaborative innovation, one that promotes cross-fertilization at the intersection of the smart city theory, organization theory and collaborative innovation literature. Moreover, our findings highlight the important role of organization theory, specifically institutional logics, in explaining the collaborative dynamics of smart city development.

Risk Assessment and Regulation Algorithm for Financial Technology Platforms in Smart City.

The informatization of cities has been further promoted, and the construction of smart cities supported by technological innovation has been upgraded. The financial industry and data are closely related. Whether the financial industry can make good use of new information technology is the key to its successful transformation. The development of smart cities has a significant effect on the development of people's livelihood, the process of urbanization, the use of technology, the solution of urban problems, and the improvement of economic levels. This also provides a good choice for the development of cities in each country. For better development, it needs technical support. Therefore, it is very important to improve the technical level. This research mainly discusses the risk assessment and regulation algorithms of financial technology platforms in smart cities. This study divides the risk decision channels into two paths based on the smart city theory, considers the internal risk factors and external risk factors of the robo-advisory service platform from the three perspectives of platform characteristics, corporate characteristics, and investor characteristics and exploring the construction of a robo-advisory service platform risk prediction model based on the machine learning perspective. The design and implementation of a personalized financial investment prototype system, a Python-based web development framework Django, and a variety of toolkits have realized a B/S architecture robo-advisor. Among them, the function of buying and selling ETF and the trend recording function after buying are realized by simulating the transaction data collected by the data collection module. The study found that the key potential characteristics that constitute platform risks are mainly the listing year of the background company, the age of the platform, the investment threshold, and the search index. To a certain extent, this provides data support for investors and regulatory authorities to evaluate platform capabilities and platform selection. Investors should comprehensively consider platform qualifications when making platform decisions and pay attention to information such as the age of listing of companies with platform background, platform age, and investment thresholds. Only when the quality of people is improved, the quality of the population of this city improves, so that the development of the city has a broad room for growth. The accuracy of the similar formula calculation method in the big data proposed in this study reached 88%. This research provides new ideas for perfecting the black box regulatory system of robo-advisory algorithms.

Evidence-Based Public Policy Decision-Making in Smart Cities: Does Extant Theory Support Achievement of City Sustainability Objectives?

Evidence-based decision making is promoted as offering efficiency and effectiveness; however, its uptake has faced barriers such as underdeveloped supporting culture, limited access to evidence, and evidence that is not fully relevant. Smart city conceptualizations offer economic and environmental sustainability and better quality of life through evidence-based policy decision-making. We wondered whether smart city theory and practice has advanced the knowledge of evidence-based decision-making. We searched major databases for literature containing a mention of smart cities, decision-making, and policy. We identified relevant literature from a range of disciplines and supplemented these by following backwards and forwards citations. Evidence-based decision-making was found mostly in literature regarding the theory and practice of smart city operations, and, to lesser extents, the articles regarding policy decisions and tactical decisions. Better decision-making which supported the achievement of city sustainability objectives was reported in some articles; however, we found significant obstacles to the further achievement of city objectives in the areas of underachievement in collaborative decision-making, privileging of big data evidence, and artificial intelligence agents as decision-makers. We assembled a definition of smart city decision-making and developed an agenda of research which will support city governments, theorists, and practitioners in better achieving sustainability through improved decision-making.

Transition towards Smart City: The Case of Tallinn

The main interest of this paper is to analyze the gap between an existing city and its future vision set in the strategy, with a focus on the transition path towards becoming a Smart City. For the analyses, we used the example of Tallinn, a middle-sized European capital city acknowledged in innovation reports as a good example of a Smart City development. This is a qualitative case study with data based on the Tallinn 2035 strategy document and on the interviews conducted with city officials. We mapped the current situation in regard to the four Smart City strategies dichotomies framework in order to understand if and how the future vision of Tallinn differs from the present. The results indicate that the current direction deviates in several ways from the future vision set in the strategy, and that to be able to move towards the vision, strategic changes are needed. With this paper we hope to add some insights to the literature about the knowledge gap between Smart City theory and implementation from the perspective of a present situation versus long-term strategy.

FUTURE CITY BASED ON SMART MOBILITY CONCEPT: CHARACTER AND BENCHMARKING

A city in overcoming its problem is defined as a smart product known as the smart city concept. Smart city has a conceptual definition as a city that is anticipatively able to manage resources in an innovative and competitive manner, with technological support in order to create a city that is comfortable and sustainable. One of the dimensions in smart city is smart mobility (transportation and infrastructure): Management of urban infrastructure that is developed in the future is an integrated and oriented management system to ensure alignments with the public interest. This study uses a critical review approach with a descriptive analysis method which is carried out by examining an urban problem in general and the theory of smart city through the search for ideas in the literature with the focus of this research is to define the character of smart mobility so that from defining the character, a solution is obtained about the indicator and expectations that are fulfilled to realize a city that has a smart mobility character. Through these methods, characters are generated from a smart city that is responsive, innovative and competitive. From these criteria produce a matrix to explain smart mobility consisting of aspects concerning aspects of less mobility, move freely, and less travel time. From the existence of the character and the matrix is finally cascaded to an indicator of the benchmarking toward smart mobility of a city.Keywords – Smart Mobility, less mobility, move freely, and less travel time

Smart Governance in Public Financial Management: A Study of Government Resources Management System (GRMS) in the City of Surabaya

This paper aims to examine the implementation of the Government Resource Management System (GRMS) in order to address problems in local government and local financial management from the Smart Governance point of view. It is based on a qualitative descriptive research involving interviews with various stakeholders, observation and analysis of relevant document. In line with its focus, this research uses smart city theory focusing on one of the dimensions that is relevant to this research problem, namely, smart governance. This research finds that the City Government of Surabaya has implemented the concept of Smart Governance in the management of regional finance through the GRMS system. The implementation of Smart Governance is evidence from five criteria, which include: 1) Participation in decision making: manifested in E-Planning process; 2) Public and social services: materialized in E-Procurement process; 3) Transparent Governance: manifested in e-Planning and e-Procurement processes in which in E-Planning the community is involved in the formulation of development planning through E-Musrenbang, and the auction process in E-Procurement; 4) Political strategies and perspectives: materialized in all GRMS processes because the whole system of GRMS is a strategy that integrates bureaucratic activities from upstream (the top or decision making level) to the downstream (to the community or citizen) so that it represents good local government and especially local financial management. By using GRMS, the overall local government and regional financial management process in the City of Surabaya can be done easily, effectively, efficiently, participatory and accountably.

A Study of Application and Framework Smart City in Bandung: A Survey

The purpose of this research is to find out the analysis of Bandung’s smart city governance, explain the infrastructure system, applications and software of the concept of the smart city of Bandung city. The research variables used were adaptations of smart city theory and adapted to government policies in Bandung. The method in this study began with a literature study to discover indicators of Smart City conducted by the Bandung city government. Then a survey of the required data, processing survey, analysing and evaluating current conditions of smart city policy. The result after knowing the current conditions of the Bandung Smart City policy, the formulation of strategies, focus, programs, and indicators of the plan is made so that the policy can be easily understood by the public. Governance is to realize effective, efficient, communicative governance and governance of local government, and continue to improve bureaucratic performance through integrated innovation and technology adoption. Smart governance, smart city development analysis, infrastructure requirements, data centers, applications and software requirements are implemented by the city of Bandung in the development towards smart city Bandung.

从“被动接受”到“合作共创”： 基于演化视角的智慧城市理论发展框架

从“被动接受”到“合作共创”： 基于演化视角的智慧城市理论发展框架

Smart prevention: A new approach to primary and secondary cancer prevention in smart and connected communities

Smart and connected communities (SCC) describe the shift in urbanism towards technological solutions and the production of knowledge-based industries. Local governments are recognizing the opportunity of this paradigm shift to improve services, create more efficient policies, and increase the wellbeing of their citizens. These new tools create the possibility for local governments to respond differently to “wicked problems” facing cities, including increasing chronic disease prevalence. Using lung and skin cancers as case studies, we present smart prevention as a novel approach that uses smart city-enabled built environment monitoring to trigger local cancer-prevention policies. First, we present results of a scoping review we conducted to describe mechanisms by which features in urban built and social environments are hypothesized to contribute to lung cancer and skin cancer. We systematically searched fourteen electronic databases, yielding 47 articles that examined associations between built and social environment features and lung cancer (n = 34), and/or built and social environment features and skin cancer (n = 13). Second, we present a narrative review of smart city theory and governance. Third, we use findings from both reviews to draw conceptual links between cancer prevention and SCC – presenting a hypothetical suite of built environment and policy interventions to prevent lung and skin cancer.

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

Despite the impressive growth of smart city initiatives worldwide, an organizational theory of smart city has yet to be developed, and we lack models addressing the unprecedented organizational and management challenges that emerge in smart city contexts. Traditional models are often of little use, because smart cities pursue different goals than traditional organizations, are based on networked, cross-boundary activity systems, rely on distributed innovation processes, and imply adaptive policy-making. Complex combinations of factors may lead to vicious or virtuous cycles in smart city initiatives, but we know very little about how these factors may be identified and mapped. Based on an inductive study of a set of primary and secondary sources, we develop a framework for the configurational analysis of smart cities viewed as place-specific organizational fields. This framework identifies five key dimensions in the configurations of smart city fields; these five dimensions are mapped through five sub-frameworks, which can be used both separately as well as for an integrated analysis. Our contribution is conceived to support longitudinal studies, natural experiments and comparative analyses on smart city fields, and to improve our understanding of how different combinations of factors affect the capability of smart innovations to translate into city resilience, sustainability and quality of life. In addition, our results suggest that new forms of place-based entrepreneurship constitute the engine that allows for the dynamic collaboration between government, citizens and research centers in successful smart city organizational fields.

TINGKAT KESIAPAN KOTA SURAKARTA TERHADAP DIMENSI MOBILITAS CERDAS (SMART MOBILITY) SEBAGAI BAGIAN DARI KONSEP KOTA CERDAS (SMART CITY)

<p><em>The city has a problem that often arises due to the construction of their own city. To prevent that, city management needs through a sustainable approach to the concept of planning. Now, the concept of smart city is developing, where several major cities in Indonesia have started implementing the concept. Surakarta be a pioneer in the use of technology of transportation commonly called Intelligent Transport Systems(ITS). Surakarta indicated to apply the concept of smart city. Together with Indosat, subsidiary of PT. Starone Partner Telecommunications (SMT) cooperate to apply the concept of smart city in Surakarta for example, e-transportation. E-transportation similar to the principle of smart mobility in the theory of smart city. Howerver not only the application of smart mobility technology, but also need to look at the aspects that provide comfort, security, and sustainability.</em></p><p><em>This study wanted to see the level of readiness of Surakarta to smart mobility dimension as part of the smart city concept. The aspects of this research are local accessibility, international accessibility, multi-modal access, information and communication technology infrastructure supporting urban mobility, sustainable transport and safety. The analytical method used in this research is the analysis technique of scoring which assess the readiness of each aspect and the overall readiness. The results showed that Surakarta belongs to the category ready but conditional on the application of smart mobility. This means Surakarta need to do several requirements either repair or procurement in some aspects. Aspects that have been prepared but has some requirements which need to be done are the aspect of local accessibility, international accessibility, multi-modal access, and information and communication technology infrastructure supporting urban mobility. Sustainable transport and safety aspects belong to the category not ready to support the implementation of smart mobility in Surakarta.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: smart city, smart mobility, smart transportation</em></p>

The Mode of Urban Renewal Base on the Smart City Theory under the Background of New Urbanization

The Smart City, coordinated development of economy, ecology and society, is the future of cities. Urban renewal is an important way to build the Smart City. Based on the Smart City theory, the authors propose the 12345 model of urban renewal, which means developing a tailored proposal of the city and citizen, and building one city management system, two supporting safeguard measures, three information infrastructure platforms, four urban management modes, and five application service systems. The city will gain the ability of self-adjustment and self-improvement. Smart urban renewal model not only solves the problems of the city at this stage, but also promotes the all-round development of the city, and access to sustainable development.