Smart cities have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both science and industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from all over the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been being criticized for not being able to realize its potential and for being a vendor hype. This paper reviews different conceptualization, benchmarks and evaluations of the smart city concept. Eight different classes of smart city conceptualization models have been discovered, which structure the unified conceptualization model and concern smart city facilities i.e., energy, water, IoT etc., services i.e., health, education etc., governance, planning and management, architecture, data and people. Benchmarking though is still ambiguous and different perspectives are followed by the researchers that measure -and recently monitor-various factors, which somehow exceed typical technological or urban characteristics. This can be attributed to the broadness of the smart city concept. This paper sheds light to parameters that can be measured and controlled in an attempt to improve smart city potential and leaves space for corresponding future research. More specifically, smart city progress, local capacity, vulnerabilities for resilience and policy impact are only some of the variants that scholars pay attention to measure and control.

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A Unified Smart City Model USCM for Smart City Conceptualization and Benchmarking

Smart cities have attracted an extensive and increasing interest from both science and industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from across the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been criticized for being influenced by vendor hype. There are various attempts to conceptualize smart cities and various benchmarking methods have been developed to evaluate their impact. In this paper the modelling and benchmarking approaches are systematically compared. There are six common dimensions among the approaches, namely people, government, economy, mobility, environment and living. This paper utilizes existing smart city analysis models in order to review three representative smart city cases and useful outcomes are extrapolated from this comparison.

Comparing Smart Cities with different modeling approaches

Smart cities have been evolving since their early appearance in late 1990s from metropolitan-wide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based solutions to today’s innovations –not necessarily based on ICTthat utilize city resources and improve local everyday life. This paper attempts to answer two research questions: (a) Does e1 Corresponding author

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Eco-cities: An integrated system dynamics framework and a concise research taxonomy

This paper analyses leadership in, of, and for smart cities. Using a multi-case study research design and Mode 2 research (based upon collaboration between a scholar and a practitioner), we explore...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14719037.2020.1718189

Leadership in, of, and for smart cities – case studies from Europe, America, and Australia

The concept of digital cities has gained prominence as the importance of ICTs is undoubtedly related to economic, social, and civic development. Brazil is following this trend, and the Ministry of Communications and CPqD created the Brazilian Digital Cities Index for evaluating national digital cities. Based on the concepts of connectivity, accessibility, and communicability that originated from the analysis of United Nations documents on the Information Society, we analyze the city of Curitiba, first-ranked in this Index. We provide a historical vision of the process that enabled the city to achieve this position, and scrutinize the questionnaire used by CPqD. We conclude that the Brazilian Index of Digital Cities does not take into account some key aspects for ranking the city's degree of inclusion in the information society, as proposed by the United Nations. Nevertheless, it is also possible to conclude that Curitiba's position in the ranking represents a historical construction determined by ...

A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Digital Cities and the Brazilian Index of Digital Cities: Analysis of Curitiba, the First-Ranked City

E-GOV.estratégico: Governo Eletrônico para Gestão do Desempenho da Administração Pública

[b] Pos-Doutor em Administracao (FEA/USP), Doutor em Gestao da Tecnologia da Informacao (EPS/UFSC), mestre em Informatica (UFPR), com especializacao em Magisterio Superior (UTP/PR), Graduado em Administracao de Empresas (FADEPS/PR) e em Processamento de Dados (FACET-UTT/PR), Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Gestao Urbana da Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana (PPGTU/PUCPR), Curitiba, PR - Brasil, e-mail: denis.rezende@pucpr.br

(T) Realizando a Gestão de Relacionamentos com os Cidadãos: proposição e avaliação de um modelo baseado no Citizen Relationship Management (I) Performing the Citizen Relationship Management: proposition and assessment of a model based on the Citizen Relationship Management

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Operationalization and Automation for Urban Management of Large Cities: Proposed Model and Case Study of the Operationalization Center in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Digital Cities and the Brazilian Index of Digital Cities: Analysis of Curitiba, the First-Ranked City

E-GOV.estratégico: Governo Eletrônico para Gestão do Desempenho da Administração Pública

(T) Realizando a Gestão de Relacionamentos com os Cidadãos: proposição e avaliação de um modelo baseado no Citizen Relationship Management (I) Performing the Citizen Relationship Management: proposition and assessment of a model based on the Citizen Relationship Management

Operationalization and Automation for Urban Management of Large Cities: Proposed Model and Case Study of the Operationalization Center in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)