Smart city services offer effective solutions to urban problems. Thus, many countries are
introducing smart city services, and some companies are entirely focused on developing the …

The purpose of this study is to clarify how to design and implement strategies for building
smart cities. Despite extensive research on cities' successful transformation into smart cities …

This paper identifies the characteristics of smart cities as they emerge from the recent
literature. It then examines whether and in what way these characteristics are present in the …

This chapter introduces the reader into the debate of smart cities and the role of
governments in managing these cities. After reviewing the phenomenon of the smart cities …

Smart cities appeared in literature in the late 1990s and various approaches have been
developed so far. Until today, smart city does not describe a city with particular attributes but …

Rapid urbanization creates new challenges and issues, and the smart city concept offers
opportunities to rise to these challenges, solve urban problems and provide citizens with a …

This study presents the first results of an analysis primarily based on semi-structured
interviews with government officials and managers who are responsible for smart city …

In this paper, we examine the understudied issue of the pathways to smart cities. While the
extant literature on smart cities offers several insights into what smart cities are, with a few …

The smart city concept is often simply considered equivalent only to technology. This paper
starts by introducing the necessity of a holistic, integrated, and multidisciplinary approach to …

(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 …