Smart Cities Today and Tomorrow – World Experience

Abstract

This article studies the role of projects and programs in solving many problems of smart cities development in the era of global digitalization. The first part of the article presents the main socially oriented values and characteristics of smart cities, digital technologies that make cities “smart”, as well as measures to implement them in the urban environment. The need to measure 17 key indicators to assess the performance of cities in terms of providing urban services and quality of life has been justified. The second part contains “international practice insight” on the main concepts of smart cities around the world (Rio de Janeiro, Jing-Jin-Ji, Berlin, Moscow, megacities of India and South Korea), each of which contains different concepts of development of these cities, successful partnership practices of: countries, governments and business, urban infrastructure and people living in megacities. The information collected is the key to solving the problems of inefficient management of modern cities development. Also, the article considers the technologies of management of smart cities, and suggestions which will allow solving the arisen difficulties have been given.