Smart cities use ICT technologies to more efficiently manage assets, resources, and services to address issues like inadequate housing, economic decline, and environmental pollution. The document compares smart cities to normal cities in terms of economy, sustainability, and efficiency. Smart cities can promote knowledge sharing and innovation to improve their economies. They also use technologies to enhance sustainability and efficiency by optimizing emissions, reducing waste, and saving citizens' time.

1. Smart City
Versus
Normal City

2. Smart city’s definition & development
In short…
·A smart city is an urban area based on the development and widely
using of ICT to collect data which be used to manage assets, resources
and services efficiently.
·With cities around the world have shared common problems including
inadequate housing, economic decline, poverty, ill-health, and
environmental pollution, smart city has been appeared and became the
mainstream of the trend in order to deal these growing complicated
problems.
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3. How to see smart city’s advantage ?
By comparing smart city and Normal city on characteristics like
economy, sustainability, and performing efficiency to find out the
advantages of smart cities in urban innovation.

4. Economy
Comparison
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5. Economy Comparison
Normal City
· Urban clustering and agglomeration provides industrial
and service enterprises with economic opportunities for
greater specialization and larger-scale production, with
lower transport and transaction costs. (McGranahan &
Satterthwaite, P. 18)
· In the modem stage, the urban sector changes from
merely providing services to lead in innovation and serving
as engines of growth. (Yannis M. Ioannides & Esteban R.
Hansberg, P. 6)
Smart City
· Use new technologies to direct the producing system
towards smarter controlling in purposes of satisfying
multiple needs (Marullo, P. 4).
· Provides interesting ideas as to the production of a
synergic system in order to improve internalization
processes (Marullo, P. 4).
· Knowledge sharing and creative talent promotion is the
final goal of a smart economy (Marullo, P. 4).

6. Sustainability
Comparison
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7. Sustainability Comparison
· The sustainability of normal city being worse and worse due to
global urban population grew rapidly, cities account for about
two-thirds of the global energy demand and produce up to 70% of
the global greenhouse gas emissions, with buildings alone
accounting for roughly 40% of the world’s energy use and
producing a fifth of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
(UNU-EGOV, IDRC & CRDI, 2016, P. 8).
· Normal Cities can be made sustainable without the use of smart
technology (ICT) (Höjer & Wangel, P. 13).
· The concept of both smarty and sustainability into a city can
be used as a common framework or joint vision for elaborating
new collaborations, business models, and ways of carrying out
urban development (Höjer & Wangel, P. 13).
Normal City Smart City

8. Efficiency
Comparison
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9. Efficiency Comparison
· Normal cities don’t provide a way that use ICT to enhance a
complex system in order to improve efficiency at every aspect to
control waste, optimize emissions and save time for citizens.
· The smart city can improve efficiency and save time, it uses
new technologies and innovation to adopt solutions with wide-
ranging applications in order to maximize benefit optimization
and resource effetely (CLC Publications & The URA Centre
Singapore P. 14).
Normal City Smart City

10. An example of Italia shows that smart city can help citizens
increase truly free time in long term
Increased percentage of truly free time
10% 5
Time line (year)
(Marullo, P. 47)

11. Conclusion
· Urban clustering and agglomeration provides industrial and service enterprises with economic opportunities for greater specialization
and larger-scale production, with lower transport and transaction costs. (McGranahan & Satterthwaite, P. 18)
· In the modem stage, the urban sector changes from merely providing services to lead in innovation and serving as engines of growth.
(Yannis M. Ioannides & Esteban R. Hansberg, P. 6)
· Use new technologies to direct the producing system towards smarter controlling in purposes of satisfying multiple needs (Marullo, P.
4).
· Provides interesting ideas as to the production of a synergic system in order to improve internalization processes (Marullo, P. 4).
· Knowledge sharing and creative talent promotion is the final goal of a smart economy (Marullo, P. 4).
· The sustainability of normal city being worse and worse due to global urban population grew rapidly, cities account for about two-
thirds of the global energy demand and produce up to 70% of the global greenhouse gas emissions, with buildings alone accounting for
roughly 40% of the world’s energy use and producing a fifth of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. (UNU-EGOV, IDRC &
CRDI, 2016, P. 8).
· Normal Cities can be made sustainable without the use of smart technology (ICT) (Höjer & Wangel, P. 13).
· Normal cities don’t provide a way that use ICT to enhance a complex system in order to improve efficiency at every aspect to control
waste, optimize emissions and save time for citizens.
· The smart city can improve efficiency and save time, it uses new technologies and innovation to adopt solutions with wide-ranging
applications in order to maximize benefit optimization and resource effetely (CLC Publications & The URA Centre Singapore P. 14).