The 'smart city'is an oft-cited techno-urban imaginary promoted by businesses and
governments alike. It thinks big, and is chiefly imagined in terms of large-scale information …

Over the last decade, Smart City has increasingly become a popular urban policy approach
of cities in both the Global North and Global South. Such approaches focus on digital and …

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 …

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities,
along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems …

Despite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional
clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global …

This conceptual paper discusses how we can consider a particular city as a smart one,
drawing on recent practices to make cities smart. A set of the common multidimensional …

Many cities around the world are presently pursuing a smart cities agenda in which
networked ICTs are positioned and utilized to try to solve urban issues, drive local and …

Over the past decade, the status of smart cities changed from a fancy area of research into a
key policy-making consideration. The increased attention paid to smart cities by decision …

There is much at stake with the smart city. This urban governance movement is predicated
on infusing information-and-communication technology into nearly all aspects of the built …

Dominant smart city conceptualizations position digital innovation and ICTs as central to
urban development and administration.“Smartness” is framed as generated by technologies …