Smart cities have gained prominence in theory and practice over the past two decades.
While many aspects of smart cities have been explored, there has been a disproportionate …

Smart cities are expected to address global challenges and increase the quality of life.
However, due to the overemphasis on physical and technological aspects, social rights and …

Purpose This study aims to promote the idea that social equity is a significant objective that
needs to be achieved to attain a smart city and further reveal the current research focus of …

The notion of smart cities, presently, is a highly popular topic in urban policy circles. This
concept is adopted by many cities across the world—with an aim of increasing urban …

This paper investigates the relationship between the smart city concept and its applications
that are heavily technologically focused. Using principles derived from political economy, it …

(1) Background: Smart cities have been gaining attention in the community, both among
researchers and professionals. Although this field of study is gaining some maturity, no …

As the term “smart city” gains wider and wider currency, there is still confusion about what a
smart city is, especially since several similar terms are often used interchangeably. This …

Smart city has been evolved since late 1990s to a rapidly emerged domain, where the
academia, the industry and the government have mutual interest in transforming cities to …

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 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 …