A Human Centric Approach on the Analysis of the Smart City Concept: the case study of the Limassol city in Cyprus
2018
Abstract. The impact of medium-sized southern European cities challenges on the
“smartness” of the city is a quite interesting case that is not quite
analyzed yet. Our scientific objective is to find a simple understandable
model linking human smart characteristics to a group of socio-demographic and
urban environment indices, applied to the case of Limassol Urban Complex, the
southernmost European city, with a total population of 208 980. The data set
of the analysis contains 25 variables in 3 thematic domains using as spatial
analysis level, the 126 postal code areas of the most urbanized part of the
city. The study results obtained through multivariate statistical analysis
and thematic cartography using GIS technology. The results reveal that the
human smart characteristics consist of the use of high-speed internet and
broad band telephony, recycling activities, employment in creative industry,
high educational attainment and open-mindedness (i.e. participation in EU
elections), are significantly correlated with demographic dynamics and built
infrastructure characteristics. Creativity and open-mindedness tend to appear
in most densely urban areas, mostly occupied by indigenous inhabitants.
Recycling and technology oriented smart characteristics are mostly correlated
with no-native residents, and high educational attainment. In the outskirts
of the city of Limassol the developing dynamics are almost the same with a
greater blend between native and non-native inhabitants.
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