In this paper, a curatorial perspective is developed to draw attention the notion that smart cities are assembled within field of relations and thus inevitably connected constellations actors, histories, materialities ideas. way, informed by diverse disciplines such as art history, critical theory institutional critique, can be used reveal struggles through which fragmented, entangled shifting ...

Smart Cities have often been associated with an extensive ICT infrastructure supporting citizens to learn. A Human Smart City focuses on its citizens and the human infrastructure they create being key actors of city making processes with a special attention on service design, development and delivery. A Human Smart City leverages technology to enhance citizen engagement and social innovation, t...

Due to tremendous increase in population, many people living in villages are now migrating to the cities. It is predicted that very soon most of the human civilization will be concentrated in the cities. This increased population will consume more energy and need more space to live. Finally, they will leave behind a more prominent environmental footprint as the cities grow to metropolises. This...

In this paper, we assess the challenges of water, waste and climate change in six cities across the U.S.: New York City, Boston, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Portland and Los Angeles. We apply the City Blueprint® Approach which consists of three indicator assessments: (1) the Trends and Pressures Framework (TPF), (2) the City Blueprint Framework (CBF) and (3) the water Governance Capacity Framework (GCF...