Ridwan Sutriadi
The development of the smart city concept has been widely applied in cities around the world with the aim of reducing urban problems. This concept continues to develop by clearly defining the concept and its implementation in a city, however, the output aspect is still not widely discussed as a concrete impact of implementing a smart city concept. This article is able to explain the implementation of the smart city concept that adopts the eight-layer smart city conceptual framework. Bandung one of the metropolitan cities in Indonesia is able to become a role model for the development of the smart city concept which was initiated in 2013, with the aim of reducing problems that are growing rapidly. Two SWKs were selected which have different characteristics in terms of innovation, culture, and economic sector dominance which are expected to explain the externalities of this comparative study. This article uses a qualitative comparative study of primary and secondary data, which is expected to be able to explain the interrelationships between layers and the differences between case studies.