This paper sees a smart city not as a status of how smart a city is but as a city's effort to make
itself smart. The connotation of a smart city represents city innovation in management and …

This position paper discusses the role of information and communication technologies in the
governance of the transition process that urban areas will have to undergo in the coming …

Local transportation services are an essential component of urban infrastructures. The
constantly growing requirements and expectations from several stakeholders, ranging from …

Many of the challenges to be faced by smart cities surpass the capacities, capabilities, and
reaches of their traditional institutions and their classical processes of governing, and …

Many of the challenges to be faced by smart cities surpass the capacities, capabilities, and
reaches of their traditional institutions and their classical processes of governing, and …

This chapter proposes a novel framework aimed at measuring performances of smart cities.
The methodological approach underlying the framework has its roots in an in-depth analysis …

Several projects have been developed in Europe addressing the 'Smartness' of Cities. This
concept is normally associated with sustainable economic development and high quality of …

Building Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential
Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore …

What brings the city to the intelligence, planning and use of electronic tools to improve the
quality of citizen's lifety. Smart City aims to enhance the quality of urban life with emphasis of …

This paper analyses one of the most debated and controversial issues regarding the
changes which are taking place in the Justice domain: the complexity of developing and …