关键词: 智慧城市, 数字化, 城市治理, 上海, 伦敦

Abstract:

In the past ten years, building smart cities has become a global movement. Unmatched with the upsurge of smart city construction, smart city has always been a vague concept and has not yet formed a universally accepted definition, which has also caused confusion among researchers and policy makers. This paper combs the existing concept of smart city, and holds that the concept of smart city is undergoing a process of evolution from the perspective of supply to the perspective of demand. Applying these two concepts of smart city from different perspectives, two construction paths, sequential promotion and reverse planning, are formed. Shanghai is the typical representative of the former construction path, while London is the practitioner of the latter. In the process of promoting the construction of smart cities along different paths, the two cities have formed their respective advantages and disadvantages. A comparative study of the construction paths of Shanghai and London shows that there is no single model for the construction of smart cities. The ideal construction paths of smart cities should be able to integrate the advantages of the two paths and adjust them timely according to different stages of development.

Key words: smart city, digitalization, urban governance, Shanghai, London