A MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF THE EUROPEAN CITIES’ SMART PERFORMANCE: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS

The purpose of the paper is to provide the ranking of Central and Eastern European cities, based on various elements of cities' smart performance. Our analysis enables the evaluation of social, economic and environmental aspects of urban life that represent the determinants of cities' comp...

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Published in:Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 519 - 550
Main Authors: Stanković, Jelena, Džunić, Marija, Džunić, Željko, Marinković, Srđan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Rijeka Sveuciliste u Rijeci 01.01.2017
Faculty of Economics University of Rijeka
Subjects:
Audits
Cities
Citizens
Criteria
Cultural heritage
Data quality
Economic conditions
Environmental aspects
Hierarchies
Infrastructure
Interdisciplinary subjects
Life satisfaction
Literature reviews
multi-criteria analysis
Perceptions
Polls & surveys
Quality of life
Ratings & rankings
Satisfaction
Smart cities
Social capital
sustainability
Urban areas
Urban development
Urbanism
Eastern Europe
Central Europe
ISSN:1331-8004, 1846-7520
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Summary:The purpose of the paper is to provide the ranking of Central and Eastern European cities, based on various elements of cities' smart performance. Our analysis enables the evaluation of social, economic and environmental aspects of urban life that represent the determinants of cities' competitive profiles and consequently, the positions on the ranking lists. The research is based on the data on perceptions of citizens on different aspects of urban quality, provided by the Eurostat's Urban Audit Perception Survey. For the assessment of various hierarchically structured indicators of cities' smart performance, a multi-criteria analysis model is developed, combining the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) for determining the relative importance of criteria and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method of ranking. The main finding of the paper implies that direct perceptions of citizens on the overall life satisfaction in the analyzed European cities are not influenced by their smart performance. The comparison of ranks obtained by the constructed multi-criteria model and perceived satisfaction of life indicates a rather weak relation.
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ISSN:1331-8004
1846-7520
DOI:10.18045/zbefri.2017.2.519