In recent years, smart city (SC) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and
industry due to a mix of urbanization, informatization, and globalization. Although several …

During the last years, both academicians and professional researchers attribute an interest
to the future of cities. They conclude that the technological leap will influence the both …

This paper reports on the first two decades of research on smart cities by conducting a
bibliometric analysis of the literature published between 1992 and 2012. The analysis …

This study aims to shed light on the process of building an effective smart city by integrating
various practical perspectives with a consideration of smart city characteristics taken from …

Making a city" smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the
urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly …

This conceptual paper discusses how we can consider a particular city as a smart one,
drawing on recent practices to make cities smart. A set of the common multidimensional …

This paper sees a smart city not as a status of how smart a city is but as a city's effort to make
itself smart. The connotation of a smart city represents city innovation in management and …

This study presents the first results of an analysis primarily based on semi-structured
interviews with government officials and managers who are responsible for smart city …

A 'digital skin'of the city is coming into being. This skin consists of a sensored and metered
urban environment. The urban world is becoming a platform for generating data on the …

The growth in the international smart city market over the past decade has been
tremendous. Fuelled by private vendors and consultants, adoption of smart city technology …