Identifying smart city archetypes from the bottom up: A content analysis of municipal plans

Zhiwei Tang; Krishna Jayakar; Xiaodong Feng; Huiping Zhang; Rachel X. Peng

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101834

Identifying smart city archetypes from the bottom up: A content analysis of municipal plans

Zhiwei Tang
, Krishna Jayakar
, Xiaodong Feng
, Huiping Zhang
, Rachel X. Peng

Telecommunications

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of 60 municipal smart city plans drawn from countries around the world, with the goal of enumerating the specific policies and programs that are included under the general rubric of “smart city” initiatives. The objective is to identify the combinations of projects that are most often deployed together, and thus to define “archetypes” or “models” in smart city development. We follow an inductive method and conduct content analysis of 60 smart city plans, with each plan coded for the presence or absence of activity in 25 program categories. Cluster analysis identified four different models: an essential services model, smart transportation model, broad spectrum model, and a business ecosystem model.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	101834
Journal	Telecommunications Policy
Volume	43
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101834
State	Published - Nov 2019

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