Direction for a Transition toward Smart Sustainable Cities based on the Diagnosis of Smart City Plans

Orchestrating infrastructure for sustainable Smart Cities

Considering Future Internet on the Basis of Smart Urban Cities A Client-City Architecture for Viable Smart Cities

The Internet has been experienced as the means for deliberation, for free social expression, for knowledge exchange, for enabling entrepreneurship. etc., while it has been capitalized by communities around the world for applications’ development and for e-service deployment. In this paper Internet is considered as a supporting tool for communities’ growth and wealth, and in this context the loc...

Smart Cities and Smart City Government Minitrack (Introduction)

This minitrack focuses on the interactions between citizens, government, and technology to promote, facilitate, and create smart cities. Smart City is a fuzzy concept, not well defined in theoretical researches nor in empirical projects. However, all the proposed definitions agree on the fact that a Smart City is an urban space that tends to improve the daily life (work, school ...) of its citi...

International Challenges of Smart Cities

The world’s urban population is expected to be proliferated due to raised use of energy, increased air pollution, increasing traffic in urban areas, increasing usage of food, and reduced food production. There are numerous available solutions in this field, but achieving smart cities is one the furthermost effective ways. Smart city has improved ICT infrastructure as a versatile, reliable, chan...

Smart Sustainable Cities: Definition and Challenges

In this chapter, we investigate the concept of Smart Sustainable Cities. We begin with five major developments of the last decades and show how they can be said to build a basis for the Smart Sustainable Cities concept. We argue that for the concept to have any useful meaning, it needs to be more strictly defined than it has previously been. We suggest such a definition and bring up some of the...