using state-of-the-art data mining methods and artificial the Aspern project, which aims to deliver real-life testing of intelligence tools implemented in the administration; solutions related to energy and housing that would promote •All data will be based on an open-source system, using social inclusion. digital tools to create transparency and enable active participation; The constant monitoring and updating of the project framework •Minority, diversity, and gender considerations are an integral allow all the actors involved in the smart city projects to part of these collaborative projects in a transparent-setting develop a long-term vision and ensure that the innovations attempt to avoid transposing stereotypes into the digital and and solutions created respond to the real needs of the city, the sustainable world; circumstances (for example, climate change), and, above all, •The City Council has created anonymized data available the aim of increasing people’s quality of life. Indeed, the City to the public in machine-readable open formats for all Council is leading by example by adopting a solution for its alternative uses; buildings and employees, with a view to prompting people and •Renewable energy will cover the digital infrastructure’s companies to follow suit. energy requirements by 2030; •Vienna is seeking collaboration to drive the digital project in Nevertheless, some questions would remain: the “urban digital lab” approach; • Will the decentralization of power generation in the •Vienna City Council is using its sphere of influence to city, through which citizens will become producers and stimulate and create an ecosystem of actors that is consumers, represent future challenges for the private experimenting with innovative tech-applied solutions that sector? could support smart city developments. • Could we compare the Aspern Project to the Sidewalk project in Toronto (see Chapter6)? Would it, therefore, represent an Conclusion issue in terms of data privacy and centralization of power? Illustrating the importance of partnerships, Vienna City Council states, “Long-term collaborative research projects such as Aspern Smart City Research set up ‘living labs’ for new technologies; real-time data collected from end users in a pilot district are analyzed in detail and the results used in the development of new applications” (Smart City Wien Framework Strategy, 2019–2050: 54). The city claims that the Aspern project can contribute to establishing relevant policy that can satisfy some of the SDGs. Vienna’s status as a smart city is essentially based on an efficient framework that aims to set goals to be achieved by 2050. These goals closely match those of the Paris Agreement and the EU. Solutions generated within the city are related to the SDGs, therefore bringing legitimacy to decisions made by Vienna City Council. The platform model of the smart city framework is based on the same principles as those which we saw in our examinations of Amsterdam and Barcelona (see chapters 2 and 3). Still, the number of projects (forty in total) is lower than in other European cities. The key strength of Vienna’s smart city programs is their intense focus on social inclusion, which is tied to every aspect of the framework’s dimensions. Additionally, the smart city framework’s housing/energy aspect is being developed through 218 Quélin and Smadja | HEC PARIS | SMART CITIES | The sustainable program of six leading cities | 2021