Time-Budgets: A Tool for Evaluating Liveable Urban Planning in Smart Cities

Abstract

It is said that time means money. But, in a world where time seems to be compressed, finding the time to complete all daily tasks and finding a balance between personal and professional life is becoming increasingly difficult. Even more, we live in a world of gadgets and devices that are meant to make our life easier, and more manageable and utilising smart tools and living in a smart city seems to be parts of the solution, if not THE solution. The equilibrium between personal and professional, with all the aspects that these two imply, makes a city more liveable in respect with others that may not offer the same opportunities, the same interest form the public administration sector to make the city appealing and use all the tools of smart urban planning to achieve this goal. Based on the bibliographic analysis in the field, using the method of fundamental research of materials retrieved from Scopus, Web of Science and Science Direct database, this article aims to take a step in showing that time budgets can become a viable assessment tool for quality of life in smart cities.

Keywords

• smart city
• smart tools
• urban planning
• time-budgets