Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities, or Both? - A Critical Review and Synthesis of Success and Failure Factors

Rasha F. Elgazzar, Rania El-Gazzar

2017

Abstract

As the majority of world population will be living in cities by 2050, it became a necessity for societies to build cities that are capable of meeting the needs of current and future generations in a smart way. There have been initiatives toward smart/sustainable cities that had succeeded, and others had failed. Being sustainable and smart had been used in a quite confusing way. In this paper, we attempt to understand related concepts, such as smart, sustainable, sustainable development, and sustainability. Then, we analyse five examples of existing initiatives of smart/sustainable cities to understand the factors behind their success or failure, by applying SMART criteria as a managerial perspective on those initiatives. Finally, we conclude the paper with key implications and possibilities for future research.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Elgazzar R. and El-Gazzar R. (2017). Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities, or Both? - A Critical Review and Synthesis of Success and Failure Factors . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 250-257. DOI: 10.5220/0006307302500257

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens17,
author={Rasha F. Elgazzar and Rania El-Gazzar},
title={Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities, or Both? - A Critical Review and Synthesis of Success and Failure Factors},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={250-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006307302500257},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities, or Both? - A Critical Review and Synthesis of Success and Failure Factors
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - Elgazzar R.
AU - El-Gazzar R.
PY - 2017
SP - 250
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0006307302500257