Comparison on Smart Cities Features from Different Countries

Authors

  • Nazatul Shima Abdul Rani
  • Ibtessam Boubekeur

Abstract

The world is facing a global phenomenon of rapid urbanization all over the cities, thus developing smart cities worldwide is considered as a must for countries to ensure a good quality of life for its citizen.  Smart cities model is elaborated on a main six pillars of smart people, smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart living and smart government; as a result, adopting smart city concept become a trend among modern cities. However, a huge number of cities are still behind for the smart cities race. Hence, the comparison between smart cities is quite hard since each city has its own characteristics but in order to find similarities or differences, comparing the six pillars outputs as well as evaluating the business impact of these smart cities could help in understanding the issue of having cities being late to drive their own smart cities to a highly top indexed smart cities in a global scale.

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Published

2020-01-27

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