Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative
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Urban monitoring started in the early 1990s after the development of many indicators taken from sustainable cities to address smart city initiatives.
“(Marsal-Llacuna et al. 2015) note that urban monitoring started in the early 1990s after the development of the many indicators taken from sustainable cities to address smart city initiatives.”
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 Marsal-Llacuna et al. 2015
There is still obscure and inconsistent understanding of the meaning of the smart city concept.
“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 [93]
There are smart city strategies that focus on the efficiency and advancement of hard infrastructures (e.g., transport, energy, communication, distribution networks) and those that prioritise soft infrastructures (e.g., social and human capital, participation, equity, safety, cultural heritage).
“In other words, there are smart city strategies that focus on the efficiency and advancement of hard infrastructures in terms of transport, energy, communication, and distribution networks, and so on (e.g., [45,52,74,79,83,93]) and those that prioritise the soft infrastructures in terms of social and human capital, participation, equity, safety, cultural heritage, and so forth (e.g., [7,17,75,76,8”
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 [93]
Current smart cities strive for smartness targets instead of sustainability goals.
“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 [93]
The development of smart cities came to the fore as a panacea for solving wicked urban problems thanks to the advent of big data analytics and the recognition of the untapped potential of their novel applications for advancing sustainability.
“It is of particular relevance here to emphasise that it is not until more recently that the development of smart cities came to the fore as a sort of panacea for solving the kind of wicked and intractable problems that characterise the urban domain-thanks to the advent of big data analytics as a set of advanced technologies, coupled with the recognition of the untapped potential of their novel”
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 [93]
Smarter cities are mainly striving for smart targets instead of sustainability goals, just like current smart cities.
“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 [93]
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- Authors
- Marsal-Llacuna, M.-L., Colomer-Llinàs, J., & Meléndez-Frigola, J.
- Affiliations
- Universitat de Girona (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Marsal-Llacuna, Maria-Lluïsa
- Venue
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-01
- Volume
- 90
- Pages
- 611-622
- ISSN
- 0040-1625 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1995180899
- Cited by
- 542
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 59 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 33.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Quality of Life Measurement
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Keywords
- smart cities, urban monitoring, sustainable cities, urban livability, synthetic indicators, principal component analysis, urban indicators, real-time data, quality of life index
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