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What Constitutes a Smart City?

What Constitutes a Smart City?

Sekhar Kondepudi, Ramita Kondepudi
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781466682825|ISBN10: 1466682825|EISBN13: 9781466682832
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8282-5.ch001
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Kondepudi, Sekhar, and Ramita Kondepudi. "What Constitutes a Smart City?." Handbook of Research on Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability in the Development of Smart Cities, edited by Andrea Vesco and Francesco Ferrero, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8282-5.ch001

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Kondepudi, S. & Kondepudi, R. (2015). What Constitutes a Smart City?. In A. Vesco & F. Ferrero (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability in the Development of Smart Cities (pp. 1-25). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8282-5.ch001

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Kondepudi, Sekhar, and Ramita Kondepudi. "What Constitutes a Smart City?." In Handbook of Research on Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability in the Development of Smart Cities, edited by Andrea Vesco and Francesco Ferrero, 1-25. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8282-5.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter provides an insight into what is meant by a Smart City and the underlying factors that make a city smart. The authors answer the question of “what constitutes a smart city” by presenting a multi-faceted approach including a detailed analysis of classical smart city definitions, attributes of a smart city, industry viewpoints and efforts by standards developing organizations. Through this approach, a common theme is established which best describes a smart city. The content of this chapter can therefore form the basis of developing a standard definition of a global smart city, and subsequently can be used to develop a framework to measure the performance of a smart city. The authors also propose a definition which in their view provides a reasonably holistic description of a smart city. However, they recognize that a smart city may mean different things to different stakeholders, and therefore has a strong dependence on the “lens” through which a smart city is viewed.

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