Smart city services, smart applications and smart devices form an ecosystem of tools and
artifacts that challenge, and times even disrupt, conventions, norms, and rites of behavior …

The emerging prototype for a Smart City is one of an urban environment with a new
generation of innovative services for transportation, energy distribution, healthcare …

This paper presents different manifestations and problems of the 'smart-
everything'paradigm, provides a critical reflection of its implications and proposes a human …

The 'smart city'is an oft-cited techno-urban imaginary promoted by businesses and
governments alike. It thinks big, and is chiefly imagined in terms of large-scale information …

The transformation to smarter cities will require innovation in planning, management, and
operations. Several ongoing projects around the world illustrate the opportunities and …

Smart cities connect humans to networks of information to create urban operating systems
that optimize traffic management, sustainable energy use, and enact smart governance. The …

Smart cities have inspired the introduction of various viewpoints, usually concerning the
introduction of digital technology by governance bodies and its use by service providers and …

Over the last decade, Smart City has increasingly become a popular urban policy approach
of cities in both the Global North and Global South. Such approaches focus on digital and …

Recent advances in computing and immersive technologies have provided Meta (formerly
Facebook) with the opportunity to leapfrog or expedite its way of thinking and devising a …

Decades ago, the mention of 'digital cities' made us think of visually simple and relatively
primitive early Internet and Worldwide Web representations of aspects of real cities …