Strategic Planning for Smart City Development: Assessing Spatial Inequalities in the Basic Service Provision of Metropolitan Cities

Du, Mengbing; Zhang, Xiaoling; Mora, Luca

Abstract

Spatial inequality in basic service provision is a key challenge for smart city development strategies. With a focus on walkable accessibility, this paper proposes a new methodological approach to analyzing spatial inequalities in metropolitan cities. In addition to proving the effectiveness of the proposed methodology by using New York City as an empirical case, the insights offered by the analysis contribute to an improvement in the current understanding of the negative implications that spatial inequalities can have on public health. Policies concerning local public service rearrangement should consider spatial inequalities to promote more effective forms of public participation both in the United States and globally.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 14, 2020
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Oct 29, 2020
• Journal: Journal of Urban Technology
• Print ISSN: 1063-0732
• Electronic ISSN: 1466-1853
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 115-134
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1803715
• Keywords: Smart city development, urban sustainability, spatial inequality, assessment, neighborhood walkability
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2693952