TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding smart cities
T2 - 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2012
AU - Chourabi, Hafedh
AU - Nam, Taewoo
AU - Walker, Shawn
AU - Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
AU - Mellouli, Sehl
AU - Nahon, Karine
AU - Pardo, Theresa A.
AU - Scholl, Hans Jochen
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly discussed the phenomenon. To close the gap in the literature about smart cities and in response to the increasing use of the concept, this paper proposes a framework to understand the concept of smart cities. Based on the exploration of a wide and extensive array of literature from various disciplinary areas we identify eight critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy context, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment. These factors form the basis of an integrative framework that can be used to examine how local governments are envisioning smart city initiatives. The framework suggests directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government professionals.
AB - Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly discussed the phenomenon. To close the gap in the literature about smart cities and in response to the increasing use of the concept, this paper proposes a framework to understand the concept of smart cities. Based on the exploration of a wide and extensive array of literature from various disciplinary areas we identify eight critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy context, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment. These factors form the basis of an integrative framework that can be used to examine how local governments are envisioning smart city initiatives. The framework suggests directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government professionals.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.615
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.615
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857957415
SN - 9780769545257
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2289
EP - 2297
BT - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-45
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 4 January 2012 through 7 January 2012
ER -