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Comparative urban performance assessment of safe cities through data envelopment analysis
Author(s) -
Kourtit Karima,
Nijkamp Peter,
Suzuki Soushi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
regional science policy and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1757-7802
DOI - 10.1111/rsp3.12276
Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , scope (computer science) , business , order (exchange) , urban planning , sustainable development , quality (philosophy) , smart city , relation (database) , urban policy , regional science , environmental planning , environmental economics , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , political science , engineering , economics , geography , civil engineering , computer security , mathematics , mathematical optimization , philosophy , finance , epistemology , database , law , programming language , internet of things
Sustainable urban development calls for a balanced package of conditions that induce a high quality of life (including safety and security) in cities. We argue that modern cities have to develop knowledge‐ based strategies for smart, safe and sound (3‐S) city development, supported by urban performance assessment (UPA) as a framework for sustainable urban planning. The present study builds on these strategic notions and articulates the message that smart urban policy should look into input resources in relation to output performance. Particular attention will be paid to the constituents and the role of multiple safety indicators in urban performance analysis. Next, an appropriate method from the industrial management literature, namely, super‐efficient data en591elopment analysis (SE‐DEA) will be utilized in order to undertake a comparative performance assessment of safety conditions in 57 world cities, followed by a similar analysis for 14 large European cities. Both world‐wide and Europe‐wide, there appear to be significant differences in safety performance of cities, which means that there is much scope for strategic and effective safety policy in many cities.