Geographical study of "smart cities": priorities, approaches, prospects

Abstract

The purpose is to identify existing approaches and outline future approaches to the integrated geographical study of “smart cities”. The information base is one domestic and seven international bibliographic databases. The methods are comparative analysis and the author's algorithm of semantic search based on machine learning. Results and Discussion. Ninety-one articles were identified. The distribution of articles by country and scale of the study is shown. The analysis of the articles made it possible to identify eight existing approaches: comparative-geographical, spatial-urban, regional, geopolitical, spatial-segregation, temporal-landscape, spatial-diffusion and geosystem. It is assumed that in the future there may be three more approaches: positional-geographical, flow-based and system-based settlement. A relatively small number of articles indicates the stage of formation of the research under consideration. In the future, it is possible to converge all approaches into a single methodology for the geographical study of "smart cities".