The smart city concept as a method of building urban resilience to threats: Evidence from Poland
The smart city concept as a method of building urban resilience to threats: Evidence from Poland

Summary/Abstract: For several decades, the world’s urban population has been overgrowing. Thefunctioning of cities is strongly influenced by local phenomena and global processesrelated to the urban natural environment, the functioning of the economy and socialphenomena. Regardless of the reasons, progressing urbanization leads not only to anincrease in the demand for energy, water or gas, transport services, housing or thereduction of urban space but also to uncontrolled development outside the city, theformation of slums, dispersed jobs, as well as the ageing of urban infrastructure. Asa result, this process leads to decreased efficiency, especially in energy consumption,traffic, waste management and pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to implement solutions in cities that will enable sustainable economic development and social prosperity,which will improve the quality of life of city residents and increase the city’s resistanceto threats. In order to meet the emerging challenges, as well as to build urban resilienceto threats, modern information and communication technologies are increasinglyused. In this way, the idea of a smart city is gradually being implemented in cities. Theresearch aimed to determine the impact of the smart city concept on building thecity’s resistance to threats. The main research problem was formulated as the followingquestion: How does implementing the smart city concept affect building the resilienceof cities? The research used quantitative and qualitative research methods. Data foranalysis was obtained using a diagnostic survey (CAWI and CATI methods) usingthe survey technique. In order to answer the research problem, theoretical researchmethods were also used, such as analysis and synthesis methods, which were mainlyused during the critical analysis of the literature on the subject.

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