ICT and Smart Cities: Case Studies of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg

The article is devoted to integration of the concepts of smart city and green city. Many business experts present smart city idea as digitalization of urban infrastructure. By other side, many researchers prove that these two concepts influence strongly on each other and we can meet in international science such definitions as smart greens and green infrastructure of smart cities. This conflict in definition of smart cities can be solving by the review of cities residents. In addition, it is proved in many researches that the effectiveness of green technologies and their sustainable development depends on the level of participation of citizens. People are active participants in the life processes of cities and have a direct impact on the urban environment. The introduction of green technologies can be ensuring in harmony with the well-established behavioral attitudes of city residents. In this article, the authors investigate the definition of smart city by residents' point of view and their priorities in the development of smart cities on the cases of Russian business and cultural capitals, Moscow and St. Petersburg. To obtain the results of the study, the authors interviewed more than 375 citizens in Moscow and St. Petersburg. As the results of the research, the authors concluded that for the citizens of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the development of a green city is included in the concept of a smart city. Another important result of the study, is the fact that residents of both cities are ready to participate in the development of smart and green cities, which gives an argument to make positive forecast for implementation of the concept of smart city in this agglomeration, because smart residents are the key factor and deriver for the development of both green and smart city.