An intelligence approach to city development

Abstract

The recent scientific literature about both development of cities and knowledge management is quite broad but the theoretical concept of how the city has to be managed in order to achieve its developmental objectives in the knowledge enriched environment remains not developed yet. The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of intelligence in city development. There are attemts to analyse intelligent cities, but scientific literature is very fragmented in this area and the concept of intelligent city usually is analysed using technological approach. In knowledge economy technological approach to city development is quite limited. While the knowledge management theory is mainly stressing how to make use of inernal knowledge, the intelligence is mainly concerned about how to employ the external knowledge. Therefore intelligent city should be defined as the city with an ability to capture, create, share, acquire and apply knowledge for making successful decisions and appropriate responding to changing environment.