This timely book is concerned with the recent advances in the leading paradigms of
urbanism, namely compact cities, eco-cities, and data-driven smart cities, and the evolving …

At present, sustainable urban development constitutes a major planning goal for many
urban environments coping with contemporary challenges and problems confronted by …

Internet and World Wide Web platforms, big data analytics, software, social media and civic
technologies allow for the creation of smart ecosystems in which connected intelligence …

This paper describes the information technology (IT) foundation and principles for Smarter
Cities™. Smarter Cities are urban areas that exploit operational data, such as that arising …

Smart cities integrate a wide variety of technologies and support those innovations capable
of delivering sustainable socio-economic development of cities. They are complex …

Modern cities are complex adaptive systems in which there is a lot of dependency and
interaction between the various stakeholders, components, and subsystems. The use of …

We entered the 21st century with a strong, global trend to increasing concentration of the
population in relatively few, large cities. Large, dense cities can be highly productive …

Advocated mostly by technology companies, the smart city concept promises participation,
democratization and innovative urbanism. Tracking these promises and ideas, this paper …

Defining smart city pillars, and their nature and essence, continues to be debated in the
scientific literature. The vast amount of information collected by electronic devices, often …

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge
Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of …