Electricity for Humanity: Global Impacts of Smart Cities and Villages [Editors’ Voice]

Guest editors' introduction: IT in Smart Cities

Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities - New Approaches to Innovation: Guest Editors' Introduction

Hans Schaffers Carlo Ratti Nicos Komninos Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities – New Approaches to Innovation: Guest Editors' Introduction Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ISSN 0718–1876 Electronic Version VOL 7 / ISSUE 3 / DECEMBER 2012 / II-VI © 2012 Universidad de Talca Chile This paper is available online at www.jtaer.com DOI: 10.4067/S0718-187...

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...

Needed: Global Collaboration for Comparative Research on Cities and Health

Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (HPAM), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. We make a case for creating a global database on citie...

Analysis Matrix for Smart Cities

The current digital revolution has ignited the evolution of communications grids and the development of new schemes for productive systems. Traditional technologic scenarios have been challenged, and Smart Cities have become the basis for urban competitiveness. The citizen is the one who has the power to set new scenarios, and that is why a definition of the way people interact with their citie...