Smart cities ranking: an effective instrument for the positioning of the cities?
Due to different reasons cities are increasingly challenged to improve their competitiveness. Different strategic efforts are discussed in planning sciences, new approaches and instruments are elaborated and applied, steering the positioning of cities in a competitive urban world. As one specific co...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/8550 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2099/8550 https://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ace.v4i12.2483 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cities and towns--Ratings and rankings Rankings Ciudades Strategic efforts City ranking Competitiveness Categorització de ciutats Competitivitat Esforços estratègics Jerarquización de ciudades Competitividad Esfuerzos estratégicos Ciutats -- Estadístiques Metròpolis -- Estadístiques Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Arquitectura Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Urbanisme::Ordenació del territori |
| Sumario: | Due to different reasons cities are increasingly challenged to improve their competitiveness. Different strategic efforts are discussed in planning sciences, new approaches and instruments are elaborated and applied, steering the positioning of cities in a competitive urban world. As one specific consequence city rankings have experienced a remarkable boom. However, there is some evidence that public attention of city rankings is mainly concentrated simply on the ranks themselves totally neglecting its meaning as an instrument for strategic planning. In order to elaborate this potential meaning of rankings the paper gives an overview of different types and introduces an own approach called ‘Smart City ranking’. Based on this ranking approach and corresponding experiences of different cities reacting on its dissemination in the second part the paper shows how this approach can be used as an effective instrument detecting strengths and weaknesses and improving a city’s competitiveness through relevant strategic efforts. |
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