Geneva, April 4 (EFE).- Bilbao, Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona (70) are the four Spanish cities that appear in the list of “smart cities” drawn up by the Swiss business school IMD in collaboration with the World Organization of Cities Smart and Sustainable (WeGO).
This classification, the fourth drawn up by the center based in Lausanne (Switzerland), groups 141 cities based on 20,000 surveys carried out among their inhabitants based on fifteen indicators, among which the price of housing, health services, mobility, safety and environmental pollution.
The first ten places on the list are occupied by Zurich, Oslo, Canberra, Copenhagen, Lausanne, London, Singapore, Helsinki and Geneva.
Access to housing is the biggest problem for Barcelona residents, along with pollution, corruption, the lack of mechanisms to contribute to local government, security and employment.
As in the other three cities, the cultural offer and the ease of access to it were the aspects most highlighted by the citizens of Barcelona, which occupies 70th place on the IMD list, five positions below the one it occupied in the previous study. EFE
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