As research on smart cities garners increased attention and its status consolidates as one of
the fanciest areas of research today, this paper makes a case for a cautious rethink of the …

Untangling Smart Cities: From Utopian Dreams to Innovation Systems for a Technology-
Enabled Urban Sustainability helps all key stakeholders understand the complex and often …

Recent literature on smart cities stresses the role of digitization in tackling urban issues such
as environmental degradation and poverty. The wicked nature of these issues gives rise to …

This paper aims to better frame the discussion and the various, divergent operationalisations
and interpretations of the Smart City concept. We start by explicating top-down approaches …

This paper builds upon an earlier conference publication by the authors, offering
contributions based on a systematic literature review and qualitative study. The paper …

Smart cities research evolved into one of the most vibrant fields of research and policy-
making with sustainability and well-being becoming the bons mots of the debate. The …

Smart cities are widely seen as localities that actively embrace new technologies to achieve
desired urban outcomes. Despite sustainability often claimed to be a desired outcome of …

This commentary characterises and critiques research on smart cities. I argue that much of
the writing and rhetoric about smart cities seeks to appear non-ideological, commonsensical …

Cities are contemporary metropolises that concentrate human and social activity;
engineered to support and develop the physical environment and the people within it, Smart …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to rethink the focus of the smart cities debate and to
open it to policymaking and strategy considerations. To this end, the origins of what is …