Woo-Min Nam, Keon Chul Park, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 79-86, Dec. 2022
10.7472/jksii.2022.23.6.79, Full Text:
Keywords: Smart City, Citizen Participation, Research Trend Analysis, Text Mining, topic modeling, Latent Dirchlet Allocation(LDA)

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the research trends on the civic participation in a smart city and to present implications to policy makers, industry professionals and researchers. As rapid urbanization is defining development trend of modern city, urban problems such as transportation, environment, and energy are spreading and intensifying around the city. Countries around the world are introducing smart cities to solve these urban problems and to achieve sustainable development. Recently, many countries are modifying urban planning from top-down to down-up by actively engaging citizens to participate in the urban construction process directly and indirectly. Although the construction of smart cities is being promoted in Korea to solve urban problems, awareness of smart cities and civic participation are low. In order to overcome this situation, discussions on ideas and methods that can increase civic participation in smart cities are continuously being conducted. Therefore, in this study, by collecting publication containing both ‘Smart Cities’ and ‘Participation (Engagement)’ in Scopus DB, the topics of related studies were categorized and research trends were analyzed using topic modeling. Through this study, it is expected that it can be used as evidence to understand the direction of civic participation research in smart cities and to present the direction of related research in the future.

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