The Transformation of Smart City Concept in Urban Development (Case Study: Semarang City)

Abstract

The urban development in line with technology growth has created a smart city concept. Semarang city is one of the metropolitan cities that has applied a smart city concept since 2013 by implementing information technology in their programs. It was successfully made Semarang getting an award as the best city of Development Regional Awards by Bappenas (Ministry of National Development Planning) in 2019. But over time, the smart city concept in Semarang has transformed in its implementation to solve the city's problems and adapt to their needs. The purpose of this study is to describe the phenomena in the transformation of the smart city concept in urban development with case study of Semarang city. This study uses an abductive approach by the methodology of case study that armed with a few of theory and has a lot of exploration about the phenomena. The results of this study indicate that the transformation of the smart city concept in Semarang affected by several factors in urban and regional development, which consist of internal and external factors.