Report on Urban policies for building smart cities

Comprehensive report on Urban policies for building smart cities. The report will be divided into 3 main interconnected parts. First, the report will analyse the concept of a ‘smart city’. Second, the above concept of ‘smart city’ will be operationalised along the several dimensions elaborated in the ongoing literature. These will include the utilisation of networked infrastructure to improve economic and political efficiency and enable social and cultural development, the extent of business-led development, the social inclusion of various urban residents in public services, extent of high-tech and creative industries, social and relational capital, and social and environmental sustainability). Third, a new index of smartness and quality of life will be implemented based on Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA). The new index will consider both the objective measures and the citizens’ perception of the aforementioned dimensions