On Smart Cities and Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

The theme smart cities (SCs) appeared on the literature since the 1990s, and gained more visibility a decade later, when publications started to skyrocket. The United Nations launched the program sustainable development goals (SDGs), composed of 17 objectives, which purpose, in general terms, is the well being of life on the Planet. Both themes, SCs and SDGs, were born to be “soulmate’ themes, once they have the same purpose of study: the wellness of human being. The purpose of this paper is to find the connections between these two themes. To achieve this purpose, a systematic literature search was done, and the content analysis was performed on the titles and abstracts of the works found. The results show that, by analyzing the concepts and definitions of SCs, there is not a direct mention of the SDGs on the works. However, an indirect connection between SCs and SDGs can be inferred by analyzing the whole works on SCs, which is a suggestion for future works.