Smart City Development and Residents’ Well-Being

Chunpei Lin, Guanxi Zhao, Chuanpeng Yu and Yenchun Jim Wu
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Chunpei Lin: School of Business Administration, Post-doctoral Mobile Station of Applied Economics, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China
Guanxi Zhao: Business Management Research Center, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China
Chuanpeng Yu: School of Economics and Commerce, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Yenchun Jim Wu: Graduate Institute of Global Business and Strategy, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 10645, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: The development of smart cities has greatly improved the living and working environment of urban residents, but whether it can enhance the happiness of urban residents is a controversial topic. In this study, we investigate residents’ experiences of obtaining information, services and networks in smart cities from the aspects of safety, usefulness and convenience, and empirically explore their relationship with residents’ subjective well-being (SWB). The results show that residents’ safety, usefulness and convenience experiences of obtaining information, services and networks in smart cities all have positive impacts on their SWB, and the relationship between residents’ safety experience and SWB is, to a certain extent, mediated by their usefulness and convenience experiences.

Keywords: smart city; usefulness experience; safety experience; convenience experience; SWB (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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