Track: Sustainability and Green Systems

Abstract

Creating smart cities has grown to be vital in achieving sustainability in urban development. Further, it urges the necessity of initiating smart cities to overcome the issues owned by the rapid urbanization of countries. Initiating smart cities has become a trend in the modern world as it benefits in widespread connectivity and drive effective action, which is important for sustainable urban development. However, enabling smart cities is one of major challenges faced by countries. As previous researches stated, smart cities require funding and partnerships for its survival. Further, the need for policy changes, limited capital availability, political uncertainties and disorganized funding structures could also prevent investing in smart cities. Hence, identifying drivers and barriers for enabling smart cities has become paramount to study, thus selected as the main purpose of this research paper. Accordingly, an extensive literature survey was conducted. Fifty-two (52) key literature projects from recognised databases were critically reviewed to identify the concept of smart city, and the drivers and barriers for initiating smart cities. Finally, the most and least drivers and barriers were determined based on the critical review of literature. The probable strategies were also proposed as the main implication of this research which may ensure enabling smart cities.

Keywords

Smart Cities, Sustainable Urban Development, Drivers, Barriers