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Title	Smart Cities And Sustainable Development
ID_Doc	49403
Authors	Su Y.; Fan D.
Year	2023
Published	Regional Studies, 57, 4
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2106360
Abstract	The last two decades have witnessed a surge in interest in the smart-sustainable city, but it remains unclear how smart cities can achieve the multifaceted goals of sustainable development, such as ecological performance, human development and sustainability efficiency. This study performs a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of 35 Chinese large smart cities through configurational theorizing of the smart-sustainable city nexus. The findings not only reveal the causal complexity of constructing smart cities to achieve urban sustainability, but also develop a taxonomy of smart city configurations leading to ecological performance or human development, namely, duplex-centric, eco-centric, human-centric and double-bind modes.
Author Keywords	configurational theorizing; ecological performance; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA); human development; smart city elements; urban sustainability

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