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Smart sustainable city assessment framework
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There has been an exponential growth of cities in the last decade. Rural to urban migration
are occurring at an unprecedented level. This is partly because cities serve as hubs of
innovation offering numerous economic opportunities. However, this growth comes with
its unique challenges some of which include strained mobility, pollution, growth of slums
etc. The “smart cities” concept aims to address this with increased efficiency using a
unique combination of data and technology in every aspect of the city. Even though it is
believed that the smart cities concept inherently incorporates sustainability or ultimately
leads to a more sustainable city, not all smart city concepts are aligned with sustainability
targets. In this research, we provide a more holistic view studying the relationship
between a “smart city” and a “sustainable city”. We conceptualised a framework to
measure the connection between technology and environmental sustainability and
categorised European cities based on this relationship. We provide a concise and clearer
understanding of the drivers of the use of technology through the sharing economy to
foster sustainability in cities by citizens. Using a weighting and meta-analysis of adoption
theories, we laid the foundation for additional hypothesises which researchers can
evaluate in future smart sustainable cities assessment studies and provided interesting
insights for city councils and governments pushing for a citizen adoption of sustainable
practices within their administrative boundaries. Lastly, we rank European capital cities
based on how smart and sustainable they are using a composite index based on publicly
available data. We also carried out a sensitivity analysis and validation study of our
results.
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Geographic Information Systems
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Smart Cities Sustainable Cities Clustering Sharing economy Environmental sustainability