The concept of smart cities has gained significant momentum in science and policy circles
over the past decade. This study aims to provide an overview of the structure and trends in …

(1) Background: Smart cities have been gaining attention in the community, both among
researchers and professionals. Although this field of study is gaining some maturity, no …

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

Smart City Emergence: Cases from Around the World analyzes how smart cities are
currently being conceptualized and implemented, examining the theoretical underpinnings …

As a research domain, Smart Cities is only emerging. This is evident from the number of
publications, books, and other scholarly articles on smart cities indexed in Google scholar …

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 employ information and communication technologies to improve: the quality of
life for its citizens, the local economy, transport, traffic management, environment, and …

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 …

As the term “smart city” gains wider and wider currency, there is still confusion about what a
smart city is, especially since several similar terms are often used interchangeably. This …

This literature review provides a systematic review of smart city research between 2000 and
2019. The aim of the review is to provide a comprehensive picture of the state-of-the-art of …