European cities are experiencing a mushrooming of a new urban imagery amid multiple
types of crisis. In fact, the 'smart city'has become a widely spread vision used by a variety of …

The aim of this work is to analyze the projects carried out by public institutions in the field of
smartness, in order to reflect on the most effective mechanisms of governance. To this end …

The paper analyses the concept of the smart city in critical perspective, focusing on the
power/knowledge implications for the contemporary city. On the one hand, smart city policies …

Within the smart city debate, this paper aims to reflect on whether and how medium-sized
Italian cities are organizing their smart transition technically as well as administratively. The …

The smart city discourse has gained increasing popularity within contemporary cities across
the globe, mobilizing powerful economic actors and hegemonic public–private coalitions …

In the heyday of the late 2000s financial crisis, austerity urbanism became a dominant
practice of state financial restructuring—an intensification in the encroachment of the …

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 …

This paper develops a critical understanding of the smart city by investigating the values and
ideas that underpin this concept and how they are translated into practice. It suggests that …

Smart cities have been recently recognized as the most pleasing and attractive places to live
in; due to this, both scholars and policy-makers pay close attention to this topic. Specifically …

Innovation, and technological innovation in particular, can help city governments meet the
challenges of urban governance, improve urban environments, become more competitive …