Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is at the heart of the smart city approach,
which constitutes the next level of cities' and communities' development across the globe …

A smart city represents an improvement of today's cities, both functionally and structurally,
that strategically utilizes several smart factors, capitalizing on Information and …

The concept of the smart city was introduced as the potential solution to the challenges
created by urbanization with complex and costly operations. The envisioned goal of smart …

The contemporary view of the Smart City is very much static and infrastructurecentric,
focusing on installation and subsequent management of Edge devices and analytics of data …

In the early twenty-first century, the rapid transition to a highly urbanized population has
made societies and their governments around the world to be meeting unprecedented …

To address the grand challenges brought about by urbanization,“smart city” has become a
ubiquitous concept for sustaining urban and economic growthwhile addressing the …

Smart cities employ information and communication technologies to improve: the quality of
life for its citizens, the local economy, transport, traffic management, environment, and …

A “Smart City” is intended as an urban environment which, supported by pervasive ICT
systems, is able to offer advanced and innovative services to citizens in order to improve the …

Smart cities were defined by the British Standards Institute as “the effective integration of
physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable …

The shift from rural to urban societies and predominantly urban culture is a global trend with
significant consequences for environment quality. Chapter 7,“Urbanization and Smart …