Untangling Smart Cities: From Utopian Dreams to Innovation Systems for a Technology-Enabled Urban Sustainability

by Luca Mora, Mark Deakin

Overview

Untangling Smart Cities: From Utopian Dreams to Innovation Systems for a Technology-Enabled Urban Sustainability helps all key stakeholders understand the complex and often conflicting nature of smart city research, offering valuable insights for designing and implementing strategies to improve the smart city decision-making processes. The book drives the reader to a better theoretical and practical comprehension of smart city development, beginning with a thorough and systematic analysis of the research literature published to date. It addition, it provides an in-depth understanding of the entire smart city knowledge domain, revealing a deeply rooted division in its cognitive-epistemological structure as identified by bibliometric insights.

Users will find a book that fills the knowledge gap between theory and practice using case study research and empirical evidence drawn from cities considered leaders in innovative smart city practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128154779
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/04/2019
Series:	Smart Cities
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luca Mora is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Smart Cities at Edinburgh Napier University. Luca’s research includes ICT-driven urban development, urban and regional innovation, and smart cities innovation and strategic planning. He is the Principal Investigator for the Roadmap for European Smart City research project.

Mark Deakin is Professor of Built Environment in the School of Engineering and Head of the Centre for Smart Cities at Edinburgh Napier University. He’s directed Smart Cities and urban sustainable development research projects for the European Commission and UK, is the author of 12 books on Smart Cities, Sustainable Urban Development, and Urban Technology Management, editor of seven special journal issues on smart and sustainable community management and development, is an expert advisor to the European Investment Bank on smart and sustainable city development, and an Editorial Board Member of six academic journals, including Elsevier’s Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society.

Table of Contents

1. Moving beyond the smart city utopia 2. Smart city development as an ICT-driven approach to urban sustainability 3. The first two decades of research on smart city development 4. Revealing the main development paths of smart cities 5. Smart city development in Europe 6. Smart city development in North America7. The social shaping of smart cities

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Combines bibliometric and case study research to provide the needed cohesive and pedagogical framework for understanding the overall state of smart city research, theory and practice