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| Title | Assessing Smartness And Urban Development Of The European Cities:An Integrated Approach Of Entropy And Vikor |
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| ID_Doc | 10700 |
| Authors | Stanković J.J.; Popović Ž.; Marjanović I. |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | Contributions to Management Science |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52406-7_3 |
| Abstract | Contemporary flows put urban areas at the forefront as the main bearers of economic growth and prosperity. The accelerated expansion of urban areas in the last decades poses the issue of their sustainability and growing infrastructural, ecological and social problems. The concept of smart cities is one of the potential responses, strived at increasing the competitiveness of local communities and urban areas, through the application of innovative technological solutions in order to improve the quality of life for its citizens providing better public services and a healthier environment. The chapter is aimed to perform ranking of the European cities according to their smart and urban development indicators. The research results are determined based on the data collected through four cycles of the Eurostat’s Urban Audit Perception Survey conducted in the period 2006–2015. The data refer to perceived urban performances of cities by inhabitants living in them, including different aspects of sustainability and development of urban areas such as economic, social, environmental and governmental dimensions. The citizen’s perception of the quality of life within the city is important information, which serves as a basis for improving certain urban performances, which citizens perceive as insufficient in their cities. For the analysis of various attributes of cities’ urban performance, a multi-criteria model is developed, integrating the entropy for determining the criteria’s relative weights and VIKOR (VIšeKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Rešenje, Eng. Multi-Criteria Optimization and Compromise Solution) as the ranking method. Respondent’s subjective preferences were measured by a 4-point Likert scale and for the analysis, the quantification of responses was made. The multi-criteria model provided in the chapter includes 28 different criteria with approximately equal significance, grouped into six categories and from 73 up to 111 European cities per year depending on the sample size in each of the research cycles. The results of the ranking are visualized to determine the urban areas in Europe where the inhabitants’ perception is the highest overall level of smartness and sustainable urban development. The main finding of the chapter implies that among the best-ranked cities are mostly cities of Western Europe, mainly the United Kingdom. It should also be noted that apart from Vienna, Luxembourg, Copenhagen and Stockholm, the other analyzed capitals are not in the top 10 in each of the observed years. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
| Author Keywords | Entropy; European cities; Multi-criteria decision-making; Sustainable urban development; Urban area performances; VIKOR |
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