This introductory chapter identifies key fundamental charactistics of a smart city. First and
foremost, however, a smart city is based on humans and human interaction for a common …

Smart cities are envisioned as the future of technology-enabled, resilient, sustainable,
creative, and liveable urban human settlements in the world. This chapter explores what the …

Smart cities are rapidly evolving concept-transforming urban developments in the 21st
century. Smart cities use advanced technologies and data analytics to improve the quality of …

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities,
along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems …

This study represents two critical steps forward in the area of smart city research and
practice. The first is in the form of the development of a comprehensive conceptualization of …

Smart cities appeared in literature in the late 1990s and various approaches have been
developed so far. Until today, smart city does not describe a city with particular attributes but …

This Handbook presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the state-of-the-art on
Smart Cities. It provides the reader with an authoritative, exhaustive one-stop reference on …

What it means to become a smart city and to engage in smart governance continues to
evolve as our understanding of these concepts, in both theory and practice, evolves …

​ This book will provide one of the first comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city
governments with theories and concepts for understanding and researching 21st century city …

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live
in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart …