Industrial cities still maintain structures for a mass production and consumption dynamics,
which result in several issues such as unemployment, homeless, traffic jams, pollution …

The availability of ubiquitous ICT infrastructures in smart cities stimulates the development of
new services and applications, and creates environments more efficient in collaborative …

Reflecting on the governance of smart cities, the state-of-the-art this paper advances offers a
critique of recent city ranking and future Internet accounts of their development. Armed with …

There is no common consensus about what “smart” really means in the context of the
information and communications technology (ICT). The author provides with a new and quite …

Smart cities have been evolving since their early appearance in late 1990s from
metropolitan-wide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based solutions to …

Recently the term “smart” has become an increasingly popular concept used in many
different situations, in urban development context in particular. Often the term “smart city” is …

This paper summarizes the outcomes of a literature review on smart cities and goes on to
provide an overview of the critical insights it offers. Bypassing mainstream academic …

This chapter explores the potential of smart cities initiatives as a driver of partnership
formation. It presents lessons learnt from the collaboration between the Faculty of Built …

The following is drawn from the capacity-building outcomes of the North Sea Interreg 4B
project (2008-2011) known as SmartCities. In particular, the development of the inter …

Abstract [eng] The peculiarities of regional resilience to economic shocks and
methodological aspects of its complex evaluation are revealed in the dissertation. Scientific …