IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pop/journl/v2y2018i1p39-46.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

People make a city smart

Author

Listed:
  • Amitava BASU

    (Governing Council, Centre for Environmental Management and Participatory Development, New Delhi, India)

Abstract

Urbanization is rapidly increasing across the world. Nearly 55% of the world’s population presently resides in urban areas as compared to 30% in 1950. The United Nations (UN) Report titled “World Urbanization Prospects” projects that by 2050, global urban population will rise to 66%. However, the level of urbanization varies from region to region and country to country. North America, South America, Europe and the Caribbean are largely urbanized. On the other hand, most population of Africa and Asia live in rural areas. The UN Report “World Urbanization Prospects” maintains urbanization will continue, and projects Africa and Asia will be urbanizing at a faster rate than the other regions of the world. The Report also states that of the projected increased urban population about 90% will be in these two continents. In the backdrop of this global scenario, this paper focuses on India, which is the largest democracy of the world and has been integrating into the global economy accompanied by economic growth. India is an emerging economy and occupies an important position in South Asia and globally.

Suggested Citation

  • Amitava BASU, 2018. "People make a city smart," Smart Cities and Regional Development (SCRD) Journal, Smart-EDU Hub, vol. 2(1), pages 39-46, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pop:journl:v:2:y:2018:i:1:p:39-46
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.scrd.eu/index.php/scrd/article/view/25/22
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.scrd.eu/index.php/scrd/article/view/25
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mihaela STANCIULESCU, 2021. "Cetateni inteligenti si administratie inteligenta intre drepturi si responsabilitati," Smart Cities International Conference (SCIC) Proceedings, Smart-EDU Hub, vol. 9, pages 125-135, November.
    2. Mihaela STANCIULESCU, 2021. "Smart citizens, smart administration between rights and responsibilities," Smart Cities International Conference (SCIC) Proceedings, Smart-EDU Hub, vol. 9, pages 113-123, November.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    people; smart; city;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O35 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Social Innovation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pop:journl:v:2:y:2018:i:1:p:39-46. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catalin Vrabie (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fasnsro.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.