Towards Sustainable and Smart Cities: Replicable and KPI-Driven Evaluation Framework

Sustainability is pivotal in the urban transformation strategy in order to reach more resource-efficient, resilient and smarter cities. The goal of being a sustainable city should drive the decisions for city interventions, and measuring city progress is a key step for this process. There are many i...

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Published inBuildings (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 2; p. 233
Main Authors Quijano, Ana, Hernández, Jose L., Nouaille, Pierre, Virtanen, Mikko, Sánchez-Sarachu, Beatriz, Pardo-Bosch, Francesc, Knieilng, Jörg
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2022
Subjects
Alternative energy sources
Business metrics
Cities
Climate change
Emissions
energy efficiency
Evaluation
evaluation framework
indicator
Renewable resources
renewable solutions
Smart cities
smart city
Sustainability
sustainable cities
Sustainable development
Urban planning
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Summary:Sustainability is pivotal in the urban transformation strategy in order to reach more resource-efficient, resilient and smarter cities. The goal of being a sustainable city should drive the decisions for city interventions, and measuring city progress is a key step for this process. There are many initiatives aiming at defining indicators and assessment procedures, but there is no convergence in the definition of terms and application methodologies, making their real implementation complex. Within mySMARTLife project (GA#731297), a KPI-driven evaluation framework has been defined with the aim of covering the multiple pillars of a smart and sustainable city (i.e., environment, energy, mobility, ICT, citizens, economy, governance) in a holistic way. This methodology also defines the concepts and terms to guide urban planners and/or experts at the time of implementing the framework for any specific city. The evaluation framework has been deployed in the cities of Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki, and some lessons have been learned, such as the necessity of providing a definition of measurement boundary to avoid biased interpretations. Due to a co-creation strategy, the main issues from the cities have been taken into consideration in order to increase the replicability of the results.
ISSN:2075-5309
2075-5309
DOI:10.3390/buildings12020233