The smart city concept, in which data from different systems are available, contains a multitude of critical infrastructures. This availability opens new research opportunities the study interdependency between those infrastructures and cascading effects solutions focuses on as network paper proposes an integrated resilience system linking interconnected to improve disaster resilience. A data-d...

This paper acknowledges the contemporary neoliberal mode of operation Smart Cities. The pitfalls Cities concerning its propensity towards techno-centric and efficiency-focused governance are identified, with diminutive emphasis on social equity human-centric urban growth. Thus, elaborates upon an alternative person-environment-interaction based approach placemaking: Empathic implies embracing a...

A contemporary trend is that more and more people are moving into cities, which causes the cities to grow at fast pace. This leads to a situation for the city where many challenges needs to be handled in order to develop a sustainable and attractive city for its citizens. For instance, housing, economy, culture, social and environmental conditions are challenges that needs to be grappled with f...

In this article, the authors present exploratory research about privacy behaviour in a smart city. They ask if and why people share personal data city environment. designed gamified survey that offers realistic scenarios which are asked to identify technologies or withhold their data. The findings show most respondents willing for surveillance purposes security benefits. found was directly stro...

ERA-PLANET is a wide European network comprised of 118 researchers from 35 partner institutions located in 18 countries, aiming to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation (EO) in coherence with the European participation to the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the program for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation, COPERNICUS. It will...

Smart technologies play a key role in sustainable economic growth. They transform houses, offices, factories, and even cities into autonomic, self-controlled systems acting often without human intervention and thus sparing people routine connected with information collecting and processing. The paper gives an overview of a novel Wi-Fi technology, currently under development, which aims to organ...

The goal of the paper is to present the results of studies concerning the development of a method of implementation of business processes in Smart Cities systems. The method has been developed during studies carried out within the building of a Smart Cities system for Gdańsk, and is based on basic develop‐ ment project management mechanisms (drawing from best practices, and in particular from t...