The role of smart city development in urban management for achieving sustainable development
Subject Areas : Social issues and studies of sustainable development componentsSoroush Fathi 1 , Farhang Bagheri 2 *
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Keywords: Smart city, smart environment, urban management, sustainable develop,
Abstract :
The urban population is constantly increasing, and this trend has affected all economic, social, and even environmental dimensions of the city. The elements of a smart city fall into three categories: technology, people, and institutions. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze citizens’ experience of urban smartization with an emphasis on smart environment, as one of the key dimensions of a smart city according to Griffinger, and to explain its role in urban management for the realization of sustainable development. This research was conducted using Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory method and using in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 19 Tehrani citizens with theoretical sampling. Data analysis and coding were performed with Max Quda 2020 software. The research results led to the identification of 668 open categories, 123 central categories, and 20 selected categories. The results showed that the interaction between humans and the environment as a central phenomenon is very vital and complex from the participants' point of view, and the inefficient management system and urban problems as causal factors affect the central phenomenon. Culture building, optimal use of resources, selection of sustainable products, promotion of specific environmental programs and support for environmental projects as strategic factors and cultural heterogeneity, individual characteristics of citizens and lack of a comprehensive strategy as intervening factors and laws and regulations and technology and innovation in relation to the environment as background factors, the outcome of these cases in the form of a paradigm model has positive and negative consequences.
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