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“One of the key factors that has led to the emergence of this paradigm of urbanism is the large body of research criticizing the weak connection between smart cities and sustainable cities and the fallacies and misunderstanding associated with smart cities in the context of environmental sustainability”
From Environmentally sustainable smart cities and their converging AI, IoT, and big data technologies and solutions: an integrated approach to an extensive literature review (2023) · cites this paper as Ahvenniemi et al. 2017
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“Smart cities and sustainable cities are divergent on many aspects and hence not necessarily synonymous with each other”
From Environmentally sustainable smart cities and their converging AI, IoT, and big data technologies and solutions: an integrated approach to an extensive literature review (2023) · cites this paper as Ahvenniemi et al. 2017
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“Moreover, despite the wide use of the concept and its operationalisation today, there is still obscure and inconsistent understanding of its meaning (e.g., [2,5,8,16,20,25,36,93,119,137]).”
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 [2]
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“Indeed, many of the emerging smart solutions are not aligned with sustainability gaols [2].”
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 [2]
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“Concerning the financial abilities, many governments are funnelling huge expenditures (colossal investments) into ICT research, development, and innovation, which is manifested in the high number of jointly funded research endeavours as well as smart initiatives and implementation projects (e.g., [2]).”
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 [2]
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“Of relevance to underscore here is that current smart cities strive for smartness targets instead of sustainability goals (e.g., [2,93]).”
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 [2]
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“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 [2]
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“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 [2]
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“In relation to this, while some of the challenges pertaining to urbanisation are already being addressed through the development of smart technologies [29,40,133], many of the proposed smart solutions in this regard are not aligned with sustainability targets, thereby the emergence of sustainable smart cities [2,20].”
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 [2]
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“Such cities are mainly striving for smart targets instead of sustainability goals [25], just like current smart cities [2,93].”
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 [2]
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“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 [2]
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“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”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ahvenniemi, H., Huovila, A., Pinto-Seppä, I., & Airaksinen, M.
- Affiliations
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Ahvenniemi, Hannele
- Venue
- Cities
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 60
- Pages
- 234-245
- ISSN
- 0264-2751 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2527300705
- Cited by
- 1,378
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 97 · 2025: 123 · 2024: 136 · 2023: 188 · 2022: 174 · 2021: 189 · 2020: 174 · 2019: 158 · 2018: 99 · 2017: 40
- FWCI
- 106.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cities (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Keywords
- smart cities, sustainable cities, urban sustainability indicators, smart city indicators, environmental sustainability, socio-economic sustainability, smart sustainable cities, impact indicators
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