SMART CITIES DEVELOPMENT INDICES

Modem cities are increasingly faced with growing socio-economic, environmental, energy challenges, and problems that require new approaches to their solution. In the context of the digitalization of the economy and the introduction of digital technologies in various areas of the urban economy, one of the promising areas for research is the development of methodological foundations for the digitalization of socio-economic systems and construction systems for the index assessment of smart cities. Thus, this study's relevance is reduced to the need to improve approaches to assessing the digitalization of the urban environment within the framework of the concept of a smart city. The purpose of this study is to systematize existing approaches to the index assessment of the digitalization of cities and create an index methodology for assessing the digitalization of the urban environment based on the author's model 71. The main features of the methodology of this study are the implementation of several logically related stages. First, it is the identification and systematization of existing approaches to the index assessment of smart cities. Secondly, it analyzes the directions of the digitalization of cities and the indicators used for this. Thirdly, it adapts the generally accepted indicators for assessing smart cities for the 71 model. This study's results are in the development of a methodological approach to the index assessment of smart cities in the framework of the 71 model. (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.