Smart and sustainable cities: definitions, concept in contemporaneity
International Journal of Development Research
Smart and sustainable cities: definitions, concept in contemporaneity
Received 03rd February, 2021; Received in revised form 11th March, 2021; Accepted 26th April, 2021; Published online 14th May, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Anderson Saccol Ferreira. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The research aims to understand the concepts in the literature about smart cities and sustainable cities. The study provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts that characterize smart and sustainable cities today. For this study, 32 scientific articles related to the concepts and practices of smart cities were analyzed. The study showed a grouping of fifteen possible divisions that characterize smart cities as: quality of life, infrastructure, services, information and communication technology - ICT, intelligence, citizen, society, environment, sustainability, governance, management, economy, finance and mobility. A strong link between ICTs was perceived as a guiding element for the design of smart and sustainable cities. A conceptualization was proposed about the concepts found in the smart city literature and its relationship with sustainability in contemporary times.
