Highlights•Systems approach can guide smart cities to reconnect with urban sustainability.•A
smart initiative is smarter if it connects across all SET subsystems.•Social processes benefit …

Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the
seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies (Hollands …

Cities struggle to enhance their sustainability by fostering their smartness, ie their ability to
use advanced technologies and resources in an intelligent and integrated way to achieve a …

The aim of this letter is to raise some critical concerns and gaps in the booming literature on
Smart Cities; concerns that we think deserve greater attention from scientists, policy makers …

Urban policy increasingly positions smart urban development as a transformative approach
to deliver sustainability. In this paper, we question the transformative credentials of …

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 …

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 …

This paper focuses on the need for a widened definition of the notion of technology within
the smart city discourse, with a particular focus on the “built environment”. The first part of the …

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon
transitions. From its infancy at the scale of individual buildings, a focus on 'green'agenda …

In contrast to the ongoing worldwide uncontrolled expansion of urban development resulting
in sprawled cities, compact cities have been argued by planners and researchers to be the …