Abstract

This report will analyse the relationship between smart cities and economic resilience at city level. The conceptual evolution of the ‘smart city’ is discussed in detail in Work Package 4.1. Furthermore, a new index of ‘smartness’, which provided a measure of the extent to which a city is smart, was constructed in Work Package 4.1 using Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) at city level. The index considered both objective measures and citizens’ perceptions of key dimensions offering value in assessing ‘smartness’ in city projects and policies. Building on the work conducted in Work Package 4.1, this report focuses on smartness (the creation and use of knowledge) and the potential link with the resilience at city level.