| Autor: Danuta Stawasz, Dorota Sikora-Fernandez, Maciej Turała | 97 |
Strony: 97-109
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SMART CITY CONCEPT AS A FACTOR FOR DECISION MAKING IN CITY MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Summary
The article’s objectives are: firstly, to identify the degree to which the smart city concept is used for managing cities in Poland and, secondly, to initially assess whether application of the smart city concept makes it possible to reduce the costs of city functioning in Polish practice of city management and to what degree. It is beyond doubt that cities are engines of socio-economic development and that their development brings benefi ts also beyond the local dimension. Currently, when discussing the issue of development of urban areas, it is not uncommon to highlight a new stage of urbanisation – stage of smart city creation. Increasingly more cities are nowadays labelled as „intelligent” or „smart”, even though there is no clear-cut definition which would specify the criteria that cities ought to meet to be considered as such. The existing sets of criteria are relatively ambiguous, they have different priorities depending on the region etc. It is thus extremely important and useful to determine whether or not Polish cities may be considered as smart cities, to what degree and on what grounds.
pełen tekstSMART CITY CONCEPT AS A FACTOR FOR DECISION MAKING IN CITY MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Summary
The article’s objectives are: firstly, to identify the degree to which the smart city concept is used for managing cities in Poland and, secondly, to initially assess whether application of the smart city concept makes it possible to reduce the costs of city functioning in Polish practice of city management and to what degree. It is beyond doubt that cities are engines of socio-economic development and that their development brings benefi ts also beyond the local dimension. Currently, when discussing the issue of development of urban areas, it is not uncommon to highlight a new stage of urbanisation – stage of smart city creation. Increasingly more cities are nowadays labelled as „intelligent” or „smart”, even though there is no clear-cut definition which would specify the criteria that cities ought to meet to be considered as such. The existing sets of criteria are relatively ambiguous, they have different priorities depending on the region etc. It is thus extremely important and useful to determine whether or not Polish cities may be considered as smart cities, to what degree and on what grounds.