دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی ارزیابی جامع عملکرد شهر هوشمند در چین - الزویر 2018

Abstract

Development of smart city has been increasingly accepted as a new technology-based solution to mitigate urban diseases. The Chinese government has been devoting good efforts to the promotion of smart city through introducing a series of policies. However, policies may have limited effectiveness in application if they do not respond to the practice. There is little study examining what results have been achieved in practice by applying policy measures. This study presents a holistic evaluation of smart city performance in the context of China. The evaluation indicators in this study are selected by applying a hybrid research methodology including literature review and semi- structured interviews. Indicator data are collected from 44 sample smart cities. The evaluation was conducted by applying Entropy method and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) technique collectively. This study highlights that the overall smart city performance in China is at a relatively low level. There is also a significant unbalance in performance between five smart city dimensions including smart infrastructure, governance, people, economy and environment. The smart performance between cities varies significantly since cities implement smart city programs in different ways. These differences impede experience sharing between cities. Actions have been recommended in this study for promoting further development of smart city in the context of China, such as increasing the investment on smart infrastructure, providing training programs, and establishing evaluation mechanism.

Conclusions

Smart city is widely considered as an effective solution to mitigate urban diseases. However, there are many challenges in planning and implementing smart city. A holistic evaluation on the performance of smart city is therefore essential to help identify properly the existing problems, thus effective measures can be taken for improving the performance. This study presents a holistic picture of smart city practice in the context of China. The results of the study show that the overall performance of smart city practice in China is at a relatively lower level. 6.82% sample cities are rated as worst performers, 59.09 % as poor, 31.82% as average, and 2.27% as good. There is no sample city rated as best smart performer. Furthermore, the performance levels between five smart dimensions are significantly imbalanced in the country. Overall, smart governance has gained good performance, followed by people and infrastructure dimensions. The smart performance in economy and environment is poor. However, it is considered that, in the long run, the development of smart city across five dimensions should be balanced in order to attain the sustainability of smart city. On the other hand, there are significant differences in smart performance between cities. Those better performers are mostly from the eastern and southern coastal areas. The study suggests that the improvement of smart infrastructure is the key for improving the overall smart city performance of in China, which will enable the development of smart governance, people, economy and environment.