Smart City: How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

In a moment of high expectations and accolades about " smart cities " initiatives around the world, the collection of definitions, concepts, studies and methodologies provided by the book entitled " Smart City. How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space " is a welcomed effort to clarify a structure of a complex ideal of a mega project like smart city. This edited piece from a group of European researchers and cases represents an ambitious work towards the need to define, organize and build structure on an embryonic topic in different fields that today has no roadmap or clear direction about its definition and boundaries. Although the book focuses on Europe's cases of smart cities, it entails a valuable set of four features and advantages for those who attempt to dominate a complex animal with thousand heads: (1) relevant cases of smart city initiatives in Europe, (2) interdisciplinary perspective, (3) definitions and descriptions of smart city, (4) value creation and impact measurements of smart city projects. One feature of this book is that focuses on germane studies and cases of smart cities in Europe. The chapter of Thorne and Griffith provides details about the London Smart City development. Zuccardi Merli and Bonollo test their theoretical model for performance measurement on a set of Italian and European smart city cases. In Dameri's chapter, a comparative study between the cases of Amsterdam Smart City and Genova Smart City was conducted to examine key empirical aspects of implementation of these two smart strategies: role of players, programs and governance. Thorne and Griffiths study the case of London, the Digital City Exchange , by examining the relationships among Book REViEw