Smartening sustainable development in cities: Strengthening the theoretical linkage between smart cities and SDGs

S Blasi, A Ganzaroli, I De Noni - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly set up 17 interlinked global goals
designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, which are …

Smart cities: Strategic sustainable development for an urban world

C Colldahl, S Frey, JE Kelemen - 2013 - diva-portal.org
Global urbanisation trends and pressing issues around sustainability pose great challenges
for cities. The smart city concept has been developed as a strategy for working with cities as …

[HTML][HTML] Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs): A systematic literature review of co-benefits and trade-offs

A Sharifi, Z Allam, SE Bibri, AR Khavarian-Garmsir - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the wealth of research on smart cities, there is a lack of studies examining
interlinkages between smart cities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other …

Smart-sustainability: A new urban fix?

C Martin, J Evans, A Karvonen, K Paskaleva… - Sustainable cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban policy increasingly positions smart urban development as a transformative approach
to deliver sustainability. In this paper, we question the transformative credentials of …

Can cities become smart without being sustainable? A systematic review of the literature

T Yigitcanlar, M Kamruzzaman, M Foth… - Sustainable cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability-oriented innovations in smart cities: A systematic review and emerging themes

N Tura, V Ojanen - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of the paper is to clarify the relationship between sustainability-oriented
innovations (SOI) and smart city development based on the systematic review of existing …

Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review

SE Bibri, J Krogstie - Sustainable cities and society, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, the concept of smart sustainable cities has come to the fore. And it is rapidly
gaining momentum and worldwide attention as a promising response to the challenge of …

Understanding 'smart cities': Intertwining development drivers with desired outcomes in a multidimensional framework

T Yigitcanlar, M Kamruzzaman, L Buys, G Ioppolo… - Cities, 2018 - Elsevier
The convergence of technology and the city is commonly referred to as the 'smart city'. It is
seen as a possible remedy for the challenges that urbanisation creates in the age of global …

Smart city strategies–A driver for the localization of the sustainable development goals?

J Clement, B Ruysschaert, N Crutzen - Ecological Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), urgent
action is needed across all scales, with an increased importance being placed on local …

The social sustainability of smart cities: A conceptual framework

R Freestone, P Favaro - City, Culture and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
The smart city concept has emerged as an attractive label to address pressing issues of
global urbanization and combat the critical challenges to attain sustainable development …