Smart Sustainable Cities: Definition and Challenges
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The existing definitions of smart and smarter city set up no baseline for sustainability and do not include what sustainable development entails.
“In this regard, it has been argued that the existing definitions of smart and smarter city set up no baseline for sustainability, and do not include what sustainable development entails”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [55]
Smart cities of today make an inadequate contribution to the goals of sustainable development and thus have poor sustainability performance.
“The inadequate contribution of smart cities of today to the goals of sustainable development and thus their poor sustainability performance”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [55]
Smart cities can become sustainable and sustainable cities smart when ICT is primarily utilised for and directed towards enhancing sustainability performance with respect to what each of these two urban development strategies lack in terms of any potential inadequacy as to this performance.
“Smart cities can become sustainable and sustainable cities smart when ICT is primarily utilised for and directed towards enhancing sustainability performance with respect to what each of these two urban development strategies lack in terms of any potential inadequacy as to this performance (e.g., [5,16,18,20,26,55,82,112]).”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [55]
Cities can well become smartly sustainable or sustainably smart if the ubiquity and massive use of ICT could primarily be directed towards improving sustainability.
“Rather, cities can well become smartly sustainable pr sustainably smart if the ubiquity and massive use of ICT could primarily be directed towards improving sustainability (e.g., [16,20,28,55,82,112]).”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [55]
Smart sustainable cities represent a new techno-urban phenomenon that materialised around the mid-2010s.
“Accordingly, such cities represent a new techno-urban phenomenon that materialised around the mid-2010s (e.g., [2,4,6,25,55,60,82,130]).”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [55]
Smart and smarter cities have been subject to much debate and growing criticism questioning their added value to sustainability due to lack of incorporating fundamental goals of sustainable development and falling short in considering environmental and social indicators.
“As discussed above, such cities have, irrespective of which ICT visions they tend to instantiate in relation to their operational functioning, management, planning, and development, been subject to much debate, generating a growing level of criticism that essentially questions their added value to sustainability due to the lack of incorporating the fundamental goals of sustainable development, as”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [55]
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- Authors
- Höjer, M., & Wangel, J.
- Affiliations
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Höjer, Mattias
- Venue
- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2014-08-07
- Pages
- 333-349
- ISSN
- 2194-5357 (ISSN-L)
- 2194-5365
- OpenAlex
- W126373861
- Cited by
- 570
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 83 · 2020: 92 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 52.81
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Advances in intelligent systems and computing (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- VINNOVA
- Energimyndigheten
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Design and Development
- Keywords
- smart sustainable cities, concept definition, sustainable urban development, smart cities, urban sustainability, conceptual difficulties
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