TY  - INPR
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2024.2309879
ID  - discovery10176718
N2  - The media often depicts major information and technology (ICT) firms, such as IBM, Google, and Cisco, as the principal driving forces of smart city development. However, we argue that traditional urban development actors, such as real estate developers and national and local governments, play larger roles. ICT firms have limitations as leaders of major smart city development because of two important factors: 1) financially, the ICT budget is merely a small portion of the total greenfield smart city development budget, and 2) the ICT product lifespans are much shorter than that of the built environment. We explain how these two issues cause several practical problems that are obstacles to ICT firms taking charge of major smart city development. To this end, we refer to findings from an in-depth case study of the Songdo International Business District, which some have dubbed ?the world?s first smart city,? allegedly built by Cisco.
AV  - public
TI  - Who built the "world's first smart city" of Songdo? Questioning the ICT firms' Leadership in Smart City Development
SN  - 1538-7216
Y1  - 2023/09/30/
KW  - Smart city
KW  -  Songdo international business district
KW  -  South Korea
KW  -  building provision structure
KW  -  role of developer
JF  - Eurasian Geography and Economics
PB  - Bellwether
A1  - Huh, Jeongwha
A1  - Son, Jung Won
A1  - Zhao, Yang
A1  - Yang, Seongwon
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
ER  -