La misura delle smart cities e gli obiettivi della strategia EU 2020: una riflessione critica
Luigi Mundula
2019-01-01
Abstract
The debate about the smart city concept has been widened during these last years. In literature, to define this concept differ- ent ways have been proposed where enthusiastic positions have been counterposed by critical and negative views. To identify the smart city factors, some scholars highlight the role of some issues among others economic development, business-friendly context, environmental sustainability, social innovation, information and knowledge process, and finally human and social capital. In this light, the smart city concept is related to both urban efficiency and citizens’ wellbeing under the common umbrella of the use of appropriate technologies. Even firms and institutions have contributed to this debate. The latter have joined smartness with the ability of using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) as instrument to strengthen economic growth. Particularly, European Strategy 2020 focusing on a sustainable, inclusive and smart growth considers cities as engines for the development and smart cities as a normative model for the contemporary city. Therefore, how to measure smartness is becoming more and more crucial. Starting from the analysis of the smartness indicators developed in these last years, the aim of the paper is to verify how much these indexes are able to support the Europe 2020 strategy in reaching its own targets, becoming so an effective policy tool.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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