Do Smart Cities Represent the Key to Urban Resilience? Rethinking Urban Resilience

Simona Andreea Apostu (), Valentina Vasile, Razvan Vasile and Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka ()
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Simona Andreea Apostu: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Faculty of Statistics, Cybernetics and Economic Informatics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010552 Bucharest, Romania
Valentina Vasile: Institute of National Economy-Romanian Academy, Calea 13 Septembrie 13, 050711 Bucharest, Romania
Razvan Vasile: ‘Costin C. Kiritescu’ National Institute of Economic Research, Calea 13 Septembrie 13, 050711 Bucharest, Romania
Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka: Department of Production Engineering and Safety, Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-201 Częstochowa, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-21

Abstract: The pandemic disrupted all activities, so it became necessary to understand, but also rethink, the complexity of economic resilience to better deal with future shocks. A component that can signal the resilience potential of a socio-economic system is smart city response, using technology to make services more efficient. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between smart cities and urban resilience to determine whether urban resilience is significantly influenced by urban smartness. Given the EU SDGs Strategy and the Implementation of RRF Programs, we have also identified the main driving forces that can amplify the impact of smart city development policies on local resilience. The results highlighted that at the European level, smart cities are significantly correlated with urban resilience; urban resilience is explained by the variation in urban smartness; resilience is correlated with all smart city dimensions, highly in (post-)pandemic, redefining a “new normal” in resilience approaches for smart cities. We also stressed the emerging, more complex content of the economic resilience concept and the new structural approach of smart cities resilience for the post-COVID-19 period.

Keywords: resilience; smart city; urbanization; correlations; regression analysis; principal components analysis; cluster analysis; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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