The experiences of Spain's smart cities with an urban sustainable development approach

The smart city (SCs) development has developed to confront urban challenges. In any case, the complexity and energetic nature of cities makes them context-dependent in their key arranging forms concerning smart activities, which can lead to diverse arrangements and results of cities’ advancement. With the developing number of smart activities executed in SCs, it gets to be critical both to consider how such activities are arranged and composed, and to address the complexity and context-dependent energetic in which such activities are executed. The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of smart cities in Spain. Cities play a key role in sustainable development. Urban growth must be managed in ways that support and drive economic development, and achieve social cohesion and environmental sustainability. The concept of Smart Cities emerged in the same way as Smartphones or Smart TVs. A number of initiatives are being developed as part of Smart City projects; however, there is a lack of consistent indicators, databases and methodologies for assessing, financing, and implementing these kinds of initiatives. Smart City projects today are classified according to six clusters known as axes: Mobility, Environment, Government, Economy, People and Living. The main aim of this paper is to show dynamically and graphically the scope of development of Spanish Smart City initiatives in terms of mobility and environmental issues, as two of the fundamental axes of Smart City development. The study was carried out in the ۶۲ cities in the Spanish Smart Cities Network (RECI). Also, it focuses on Identifying the success methods and challenges of Smart Cities projects. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to express the concept of smart city in practice from the point of view of public activists, based on the empirically collected materials.

کلیدواژه ها:

Smart cities ، Smart success practices ، development ، Spain ، innovation