Although the smart city literature is continuously increasing these last decades, there is still a need to better understand what make their essence and smartness. The aim of the study is to deepen the understanding of the business model logic of the metropolitan city’s smartization process. More specifically, the research investigates how the building blocks of business model drive the smartization of metropolitan cities. The study explores the case of Paris, the capital of France, which has undergone a deep process of smartization over the last 15 years. The Parisian model of a smart city is insightful in several ways. The building blocks were reconfigured based on the three waves of smartization – search for legitimacy, from ‘urban intelligent’ to ‘ingenious city’, and ‘creative & living city’. Paris revised the drivers of the business model building blocks to remain smart and keep on creating value. Paris relies on new technologies as tools to involve all citizens, to go beyond sustainability; and to combine urban intelligence, social inclusion, resilience and technological innovation.

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大城市的智能化：以巴黎为例

尽管智慧城市的文献在过去的几十年中一直在不断增长，但是仍然需要更好地了解其本质和智慧的成因。该研究的目的是加深对大城市智能化过程的业务模型逻辑的理解。更具体地说，该研究调查了商业模型的构建基础如何驱动大都市的智能化。该研究以法国首都巴黎为例，该城市在过去15年中经历了深刻的智能化过程。智慧城市的巴黎模式在许多方面具有洞察力。基于三波智能化浪潮重新配置了构建基块-搜索合法性，从“城市智能”到“理想城市”以及“创意与生活城市”。巴黎修订了业务模型构建块的驱动程序，以保持精明并继续创造价值。巴黎依靠新技术作为使所有公民参与的工具，超越了可持续性；并将城市情报，社会包容，抵御力和技术创新结合起来。