Anti-disciplinary research on how to investigate poverty using the smart city concept

IF 1.5 4区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102616

Milad Pira

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Abstract

Investigating a multidimensional phenomenon is always a challenge for researchers and decision-makers. This will be more drastic if the main objective is addressing a multifaceted social issue such as poverty. Smart city is a rich urban concept that offers several technological and non-technological solutions for socio-economic challenges. Smart city is also a multidimensional phenomenon which makes more impediments for a study to address another multidimensional discipline. Anti-disciplinary approaches offer a unique process to connect two unfamiliar multifaceted concepts. The current research aims to investigate poverty by using the smart city concept through an anti-disciplinary approach by reviewing all components of smart city and poverty-reduction projects. The results will be based on Ito’s ten propositions for an anti-disciplinary study which include a variety of practical and conceptual factors. The findings suggest these propositions as guidelines to assist researchers and policymakers to use the smart city concept to explore root causes of poverty, to invite all key stakeholders to share their ideas and recommendations, to empower vulnerable women, youths, and single parents, to adopt innovative solutions, as well as to utilize new tools and devices to assure successful outcomes.

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关于如何利用智慧城市概念调查贫困的反学科研究

对研究人员和决策者来说，研究一个多维现象一直是一个挑战。如果主要目标是处理诸如贫穷等多方面的社会问题，这种情况将更为严重。智慧城市是一个丰富的城市概念，为社会经济挑战提供了几种技术和非技术解决方案。智慧城市也是一个多维的现象，这给另一个多维学科的研究带来了更多的障碍。反学科方法提供了一个独特的过程来连接两个不熟悉的多方面的概念。目前的研究旨在通过反学科的方法，通过回顾智慧城市和减贫项目的所有组成部分，利用智慧城市概念来调查贫困问题。结果将基于伊藤的反学科研究的十个命题，其中包括各种实际和概念因素。研究结果表明，这些建议可以作为指导方针，帮助研究人员和政策制定者利用智慧城市概念探索贫困的根本原因，邀请所有关键利益相关者分享他们的想法和建议，赋予弱势妇女、青年和单亲家长权力，采用创新解决方案，并利用新的工具和设备确保成功的结果。

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Evaluation and Program Planning SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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3.10

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6.20%

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112

期刊介绍： Evaluation and Program Planning is based on the principle that the techniques and methods of evaluation and planning transcend the boundaries of specific fields and that relevant contributions to these areas come from people representing many different positions, intellectual traditions, and interests. In order to further the development of evaluation and planning, we publish articles from the private and public sectors in a wide range of areas: organizational development and behavior, training, planning, human resource development, health and mental, social services, mental retardation, corrections, substance abuse, and education.