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Annex 1 ‐ Definitions of a smart sustainable city

*Details of references are provided in Annex 2.

Ref. Category Definitions/Features Key concept/ Source
No. Keywords

1 Academic A smart sustainable city is a city Economic growth, Giffinger et al.
well performing in six (6) transport, mobility, (2007)
characteristics, built on the 'smart' environment,
combination of endowments and standard of living,
activities of self‐decisive, governance.
independent and aware citizens:
(i) Economy.
(ii) Mobility.
(iii) Environment.
(iv) People.
(v) Living.
(vi) Governance.
2 Academic "We believe a city to be smart ICT, high quality of Meijer et al. (2013)
when investments in human and life, natural resource
social capital and traditional management,
(transport) and modern (ICT) participatory
communication infrastructure fuel governance,
sustainable economic growth and a transport
high quality of life, with a wise infrastructure,
management of natural resources, communication
through participatory governance." infrastructure,
economic growth,
sustainability.
3 Academic The rudiments of what constitutes Traditional Batty et al. (2012)
a smart sustainable city which we infrastructure, ICT,
define as a city in which ICT is integrated
merged with traditional infrastructure,
infrastructures, coordinated and coordinated
integrated using new digital infrastructure, digital
technologies. technology.
4 Academic Instead of striving for physical Wise use of Dixon (2012)
growth, a city's success today resources, quality of
should be measured by how wisely life, sustainability.
it uses energy, water, and other
resources, how well it maintains a
high quality of life for its people,
and how smart it is in building
prosperity on a sustainable
foundation.
In short, cities have to become
much smarter about how they use
the existing capacities and
resources.

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