Print Email Facebook Twitter A Unified Smart City Model (USCM) for Smart City conceptualization and benchmarking Title A Unified Smart City Model (USCM) for Smart City conceptualization and benchmarking Author Anthopoulos, Leonidas Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Weerakkody, Vishanth (Brunel University) Date 2018 Abstract Smart cities have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both science and industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from all over the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been being criticized for not being able to realize its potential and for being a vendor hype. This paper reviews different conceptualization, benchmarks and evaluations of the smart city concept. Eight different classes of smart city conceptualization models have been discovered, which structure the unified conceptualization model and concern smart city facilities (i.e., energy, water, IoT etc.), services (i.e., health, education etc.), governance, planning and management, architecture, data and people. Benchmarking though is still ambiguous and different perspectives are followed by the researchers that measure -and recently monitor- various factors, which somehow exceed typical technological or urban characteristics. This can be attributed to the broadness of the smart city concept. This paper sheds light to parameters that can be measured and controlled in an attempt to improve smart city potential and leaves space for corresponding future research. More specifically, smart city progress, local capacity, vulnerabilities for resilience and policy impact are only some of the variants that scholars pay attention to measure and control. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f1dffc59-3168-47ca-b0bb-2d995857bc57 DOI https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch025 Publisher IGI Global Embargo date 2019-06-01 ISBN 152255646X Source E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 1-3 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2018 Leonidas Anthopoulos, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen, Vishanth Weerakkody Files PDF A_Unified_Smart_City_Model.pdf 348.9 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f1dffc59-3168-47ca-b0bb-2d995857bc57/datastream/OBJ/view