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 …

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 …

The notion of smart cities needs to be broadened beyond the fascination with technology to
incorporate an approach that invests in the growth of human, social, and environmental …

This short piece acts as a coda to this journal's special issue on “Smart Cities and Innovative
Technologies.” First, it provides a retrospective view of the origins of the smart city concept …

Modern cities currently face numerous challenges related to mobility, waste management,
access to resources, etc. Smart Cities integrate information and communication technologies …

This paper explores the impact of urban parks on real estate prices making use of a hedonic
price approach. Focusing on Brisbane, Australia, as a case study site, we use spatial …

For the past decades humans have been placed at the centre of designing information and
communication technologies (ICT), leading to the rise in prominence of human-centred …

This article explores technological sovereignty as a way to respond to anxieties of control in
digital urban contexts, and argues that this may promise a more meaningful social license to …

The term 'sustainability'has become an overused umbrella term that encompasses a range
of climate actions and environmental infrastructure investments; however, there is still an …

The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all
around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of …