Smart cities a chalange in urban sustainable development [articol]

Abstract

The importance of cities in social life justifies the actions needed to create smart cities. The smart city, should be analyzed less by the amount of IT applications implemented even more by optimizing its functions. The idea of a smart city must include the centralization of solutions to the citizen and his needs. From the smart city characteristics such as: intelligent governance, smart economy, smart mobility, intelligent environment, intelligent population, intelligent way of life results initiatives for implementation of these characteristics. There are gaps between smart cities, both by their size and geographic location. The ubiquitous digital gaps are also manifested in smart cities. There are correlations between the city’s location and its size with the national indices of the digital divide. The rapid evolution of new digital technologies means that in most cases their failure to do so would hurt the implementation of smart city solutions more than their early adoption.