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Smart Cities: A New Path Towards Sustainability. A comparative analysis between smart cities in and outside the Nordic region

Kuusik, Kairit LU (2021) EKHS34 20211
Department of Economic History
Abstract
More and more people are moving to cities all over the world, to look for better educational or employment opportunities as well as take advantage of social benefits and technological network by the cities. Rapidly increasing urbanisation and climate change are creating new challenges for cities to undertake, which is where many cities turn to implementing the smart city concept. The purpose of this study is to give an in-depth insight to different smart city applications in different areas, how they are tackling the issues created by urbanisation and climate change, map out in which areas they are exceeding and where they are lacking. A qualitative comparative study was carried out for this research, where the findings showed that many... (More)
More and more people are moving to cities all over the world, to look for better educational or employment opportunities as well as take advantage of social benefits and technological network by the cities. Rapidly increasing urbanisation and climate change are creating new challenges for cities to undertake, which is where many cities turn to implementing the smart city concept. The purpose of this study is to give an in-depth insight to different smart city applications in different areas, how they are tackling the issues created by urbanisation and climate change, map out in which areas they are exceeding and where they are lacking. A qualitative comparative study was carried out for this research, where the findings showed that many cities are prospering in the areas such as digitalisation of public services and creating spaces and incentives for collaborations and innovative business creation. However, most of the cases are still lacking at tackling the issues driven by climate change. This thesis gives an insight into four different smart city cases in Nordic and non-Nordic regions, giving further understanding of how the concept of smart cities is implemented in the world. (Less)
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Kuusik, Kairit LU
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EKHS34 20211
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H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
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English
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9058991
date added to LUP
2021-08-26 10:30:10
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2021-08-26 10:30:10
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  abstract     = {{More and more people are moving to cities all over the world, to look for better educational or employment opportunities as well as take advantage of social benefits and technological network by the cities. Rapidly increasing urbanisation and climate change are creating new challenges for cities to undertake, which is where many cities turn to implementing the smart city concept. The purpose of this study is to give an in-depth insight to different smart city applications in different areas, how they are tackling the issues created by urbanisation and climate change, map out in which areas they are exceeding and where they are lacking. A qualitative comparative study was carried out for this research, where the findings showed that many cities are prospering in the areas such as digitalisation of public services and creating spaces and incentives for collaborations and innovative business creation. However, most of the cases are still lacking at tackling the issues driven by climate change. This thesis gives an insight into four different smart city cases in Nordic and non-Nordic regions, giving further understanding of how the concept of smart cities is implemented in the world.}},
  author       = {{Kuusik, Kairit}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Smart Cities: A New Path Towards Sustainability. A comparative analysis between smart cities in and outside the Nordic region}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}