A new methodology to support smartness at the district level of metropolitan areas in emerging economies: The case of Santiago de Chile
Résumé
According to a forecast by the United Nations, by 2030 one in every three people in the world will live in citieswith at least half a million inhabitants. Therefore, enabling smarter and resilient cities is one of the key goals totackling world challenges and ensuring the citizen’s wellbeing in the years to come. Various frameworks ofindicators have been proposed to evaluate urban smartness with an aim to improve policymakers’ actions.Nevertheless, recent research shows that despite efforts and initiatives, urban policy actions have yet to achievethe expected results, as smartness is evaluated in an aggregated way, while metropolitan areas are very heterogeneoussystems. In this paper, the authors propose a methodological approach to evaluate smartness whileconsidering a city not as a homogeneous space, but as a space divided into different districts with differentcharacteristics and dynamics, and therefore different topologies and citizen needs. This methodology is based onData Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which sets out to measure the performance of decision-making units (districts)by considering the efficiency of each district, measured by the ratio between its allocated resources (input)and the corresponding smartness score (output). Accordingly, the methodology is highly applicable to citieslocated in emerging countries, which are characterised by a high disparity of human conditions if we comparethem district by district. The approach is illustrated in a case study of the smartness of the metropolitan districtsof Santiago de Chile.
Domaines
Environnement et Société
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