Smart cities within world city networks
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A substantiated definition of smart cities is urgently required. In this note, we explore the crossover between smart city and world city network literature. We argue that this crossover can contribute to the theoretical and empirical development of smart city literature. The results show that indeed, besides territorial measures, network measures, e.g. indegree and inward distance, are important in explaining the smartness of cities. Based on this, we recommend that smart cities include city network characteristics in future planning.
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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]).”
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- Authors
- Wall, R. S., & Stavropoulos, S.
- Affiliations
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Wall, R. S.
- Venue
- Applied Economics Letters
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-01-20
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 875-879
- ISSN
- 1350-4851 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-4291
- OpenAlex
- W2305068253
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 22.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- pure.eur.nl
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Applied Economics Letters (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Global Urban Networks and Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Keywords
- smart cities, world city network, smart city definition, network centrality, in-degree, urban planning
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