Title: Towards sustainable smart cities and future challenges: exploring the impact of smart cities on sustainable development

Authors: Hongmei Wang

Addresses: Institute of Marxism, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji 721016, Shaanxi, China

Abstract: Research on smart cities is emerging where experts are trying to uncover the influence of smart cities from various perspectives. Some experts are trying to discuss the essentiality and sustainability of smart cities. This study endeavours to investigate the nexus between smart city applications (i.e., smart homes, smart education, smart transportation, smart health, smart safety, and smart power) with respect to sustainable development (SSD) within the three major perspectives of SSD, i.e., social development (SoD), economic development (EcD), and environmental development (EnD) with empirical analysis from the Chinese market. First, this study confirmed a positive connection of smart city applications on sustainable development. Second, the influence of each factor of SSD such as SoD, EcD, and EnD was independently confirmed. This study provides insights into smart cities, how transformation toward smart cities may improve social, economic, and environmental performance of a nation. The study also provides various applications in terms of theoretical perspectives and managerial perspectives to better shape a society during the current era of artificial intelligence. The study states the drawbacks along with the future potential for future researchers.

Keywords: smart cities; sustainable development; SSD; social perspective; economic perspective; environment perspective.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2023.136680

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2023 Vol.13 No.4, pp.365 - 379

Received: 07 Jun 2023
Accepted: 15 Nov 2023

Published online: 15 Feb 2024 *

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