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Analyzing the Influence of the Smart Dimensions on the Citizens’ Quality of Life in the European Smart Cities’ Context

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Smart Cities and Smart Governance

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In the last years, the creation of public value in the smart cities (SC) is conceived as a strategic approach to public management based on the promotion of networked governance with the aim at improving the quality of life (QoL) of the cities’ residents (Rodríguez Bolívar, Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3325–3334, 2019). This chapter seeks to analyze whether SC are those with a higher QoL in the urban environment as well as to investigate the smart dimensions that could have an influence on the QoL of the cities’ residents. Findings based on a sample of European smart cities indicate that the smart city’s promise of increasing the citizen’s QoL is true, but it seems to be mainly focused on the outcomes (smart living dimension) and not on other smart dimensions that focus on the process to obtain the outcomes (smart governance, smart economy, or smart environment, for example).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/studies/pdf/urban/survey 2015_en.pdf and https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/region_rankings.jsp?title= 2015&region=150, respectively.

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    See https://www.imercer.com/uploads/GM/qol2015/h5478qol2015/index.html and http://media.heraldsun.com.au/files/liveability.pdf, respectively.

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  1. University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

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  1. Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina

    Elsa Estevez

  2. Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA

    Theresa A. Pardo

  3. The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans Jochen Scholl

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Table 1 Characteristics of QoL rankings
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Table 2 Descriptive statistics
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Table 3 MLR: coefficients and independence and collinearity analysis
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Fig. 1
Four horizontal bar graphs, a to d, provide the data for S C and N S C with a few regions for the following. M E R C E R, E I U, E U R O S T A T, and N U M B E O.

Objective and subjective QoL rankings—How is the transition possible from the objective measures of city smartness to an intangible entity of quality of life?

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Rodríguez Bolívar, M.P. (2021). Analyzing the Influence of the Smart Dimensions on the Citizens’ Quality of Life in the European Smart Cities’ Context. In: Estevez, E., Pardo, T.A., Scholl, H.J. (eds) Smart Cities and Smart Governance. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61033-3_11

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