TY - JOUR N2 - The smart city concept is constantly evolving. More and researchers in Poland and also in the whole world deal with this issue. In practice, it is noted that in cities around the world you can find more and more implemented projects referred as smart, in particular in Barcelona, Vienna and Copenhagen and others. According to the classical definition, smart city means introducing solutions based on the latest information technologies to urban spaces in order to improve the quality of life of city residents. Smart city is a city concept in which solutions can solve the most important problems related to the functioning of cities, such as improvements in public transport and goods in cities, counteracting climate change through the use of energy-saving solutions of city lighting, social inclusion (access city) and others. The concept of smart city is based on IT solutions that are constantly modernized and adapted to specific needs of individual cities. By using real-time access to information, they help make more efficient decisions for city users. However, recent approaches highlight the relationship between modern network technologies and the urban community. One can notice the focus of the researchers on the relational approach, which means combining the smart city concept with the participation of residents in the city management process, and in particular making choices and implementing smart projects. In this sense, the smart city idea defines the way of managing a city in which relations between the self-government, IT providers and science as well as the inhabitants of the city are particularly important. Responding to the needs of residents is particularly important as counteracting the tendency to focus smart products and services in richer places and create socalled an innovation hub with the simultaneous periphery of the remaining districts. Criticism of the smart city concept focuses on the problem of the social polarization of cities, in which the technological revolution contributes more to the increase of socio-economic disparities rather than their decreasing. The aim of the article is to answer the question whether the implementation of the smart city concept polarizes the urban community and does it allow the inclusive development of cities? L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114430/PDF/08%20Pi%C4%99ta-Kanurska%20-%20Biul.%20273-274%20-%20Klasik,%20Ku%C5%BAnik.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114430 PY - 2019 IS - No 273/274 EP - 70 KW - Governance KW - inclusive growth KW - Smart city KW - socio-economic disparities A1 - Pięta-Kanurska, Małgorzata PB - PAN, Komitet Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju DA - 2019.10.21 T1 - Smart City and Inclusive Growth SP - 59 UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/114430 T2 - Biuletyn KPZK ER -