Based on the" digital city"," smart city" is widely used in daily livelihood, environmental
protection, public security, city services and other fields. In this paper, we mainly focus on …

Beginning with the explanation of smart city, this paper firstly gave the definition of smart city
based on the existing researches and discussed the four characteristics of smart city, which …

Since IBM brought the concept of “Smarter planet” in China in 2009, smart cites construction
has become a new trend of urban development. By 2013, there were 193 approved pilot …

Rapid urbanization creates new challenges and issues, and the smart city concept offers
opportunities to rise to these challenges, solve urban problems and provide citizens with a …

Smart city initiatives have been launched on every continent. That notwithstanding the
concept of “smart city” has remained ambiguous. We systematically interviewed officials of …

The year of 2013 is considered the first year of smart city in China. With the development of
informationization and urbanization in China, city diseases (traffic jam, medical problem and …

Digital cities have been evolved from web applications and knowledge bases to smart urban
environments. This evolution has mainly been based on broadband metro-networks and …

Making a city" smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the
urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly …

During the last years, both academicians and professional researchers attribute an interest
to the future of cities. They conclude that the technological leap will influence the both …

Smart cities are a recent phenomenon, but they are spreading quickly all over the world.
This vibrant and innovative urban strategy is conceived like an effective instrument to face …