Smart Cities in Europe
Smart Cities in Europe
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DOI：
10.1080/10630732.2011.601117
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Nijkamp, Peter
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作者：
Caragliu, Andrea;Del Bo, Chiara;Nijkamp, Peter
目前，城市绩效不仅取决于城市的硬件基础设施（有形资本），而且越来越取决于知识传播和社会基础设施（人力和社会资本）的可用性和质量。后一种形式的资本对城市竞争力具有决定性作用。在这种背景下，“智慧城市”的概念最近被引入，作为一种战略手段，将现代城市生产要素纳入一个共同的框架，特别是，，以突显资讯及通讯科技在过去20年对提升城市竞争力的重要性。本文件旨在阐释“智慧城市“我们提供了这一结构的重点和可操作的定义，并提供了关于欧盟27国智慧城市地理的一致证据。据我们所知，我们的统计和图形分析首次深入利用了最新版本的城市审计数据集，以分析决定智慧城市绩效的因素。我们发现，创造性阶层的存在、城市环境的质量和对城市环境的关注、教育水平以及公共行政部门获得和使用信通技术的情况，都与城市财富呈正相关。这一结果促使欧洲城市制定新的战略议程，使它们能够实现可持续的城市发展和更好的城市景观。
Urban performance currently depends not only on a city's endowment of hard infrastructure (physical capital), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure (human and social capital). The latter form of capital is decisive for urban competitiveness. Against this background, the concept of the "smart city" has recently been introduced as a strategic device to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework and, in particular, to highlight the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the last 20 years for enhancing the competitive profile of a city.The present paper aims to shed light on the often elusive definition of the concept of the "smart city." We provide a focused and operational definition of this construct and present consistent evidence on the geography of smart cities in the EU27. Our statistical and graphical analyses exploit in depth, for the first time to our knowledge, the most recent version of the Urban Audit data set in order to analyze the factors determining the performance of smart cities. We find that the presence of a creative class, the quality of and dedicated attention to the urban environment, the level of education, and the accessibility to and use of ICTs for public administration are all positively correlated with urban wealth. This result prompts the formulation of a new strategic agenda for European cities that will allow them to achieve sustainable urban development and a better urban landscape.