This study examines motivations, definitions, methods and challenges of evaluating the
social impacts of smart city technologies and services. It outlines concepts of social impact …

Smart city developments integrate digital, human and physical systems in the built
environment. With growing urbanization and widespread developments, identifying suitable …

As research on smart cities garners increased attention and its status consolidates as one of
the fanciest areas of research today, this paper makes a case for a cautious rethink of the …

The explosive advancements of sensing technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Internet
of Things (IoT) have given rise to various smart technologies that brought profound changes …

Smart technologies create opportunities for urban development and regeneration, leading to
a proliferation of projects/programmes designed to address city strategies around …

The concept of smart cities has evolved from a technology and data-driven approach to a
more human-centred and inclusive model. This paper explores the shift in smart city …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to rethink the focus of the smart cities debate and to
open it to policymaking and strategy considerations. To this end, the origins of what is …

This study aims to elucidate the impact of implementing the latest state-of-the-art of
technologies on well beings of nations and its people who live in cities generally, and in …

Purpose This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools
to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has …

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 …