Complexities of smart city project success: A study of real-life case studies

作者：Oladimeji A. Olawale, Lukumon O. Oyedele, Hakeem. Owolabi, Habeeb Kusimo, Abdul-Quayyum Gbadamosi, Taofeek Dolapo Akinosho, Sofiat Abioye, Kabir O. Kadiri, Ismail. Olojede · 发表于：UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol) · 年份：2019 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Smart Cities and Technologies

Over the years, the world has moved towards an unprecedented level of urbanisation as half of the world’s total population live in cities. This trajectory of rapid urbanisation has greatly improved the modern economy as well as the standard of living. However, this fast-rising trend has also generated many new problems on the existing city infrastructures and amenities. This includes traffic congestion, waste management issues, scarcity of resources, human health concerns, deteriorating and ageing infrastructures. Thus, to prevent the rapid urbanisation from being a crisis, cities have sought to cater for the effervescent needs of city dwellers in an innovative way by making cities smart. Hence, a number of urban cities (e.g. Singapore, Dubai, New York, London, Barcelona, Madrid) have embarked on smart city projects to achieve prosperity, efficiency and competitiveness. These cities have embarked on critical projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, Sydney Opera House, Charles de Gaulle Airport (Terminal 2E) etc. These smart city concept projects consist of a set of coordinated activities with definite start and end dates to bring about a beneficial change or improvement to the problems posed by rapid urbanisation. However, judging these smart city projects have been controversial because it is widely held that project success means different things to different people and as such, it is mind-dependent. In order to substantiate this claim, the study explores the complexity assoc...