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Smart Cities and the UN SDGs
- 1st Edition - April 23, 2021
- Editors: Anna Visvizi, Raquel Perez del Hoyo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 1 5 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 9 1 8 - 9
Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explor… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSmart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving as a key reference for those seeking to make sense of the issues and challenges of smart cities and SDGs.
- Includes numerous case studies from around the world
- Features interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner experts
- Offers an extensive literature review
Researchers, post graduate students, professors. City planners, designers, and policymakers
1. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the smart city: A tool or an approach? (An introduction)
Anna Visvizi and Raquel Perez del Hoyo
Part I
Sustainability, SDGs, technology, and the city space: The smart city in the making
2. Inclusiveness, safety, resilience, and sustainability in the smart city context
Raquel Perez del Hoyo, Anna Visvizi, and Higinio Mora
3. Sustainability in smart cities: Merging theory and practice
4. Technology and SDGs in smart cities context
Part II
Why smart governance is a necessity for the attainment of the SDGs and how to make it truly smart? Involving and listening to the citizens
5. Governance and SDGs in smart cities context
Shahira Assem Abdel-Razek
6. Reinterpreting governance in smart cities: An ecosystem-based view
7. Open data portals for urban sustainable development: People, policies, and technology
8. The potential of location-based social networks for participatory urban planning
9. The Green Turn: Smart cities, the SDGs, and sustainability in the EU parties’ discourse
Part III
Safety, security, exclusion/inclusion, well-being
10. Exploring the relationship between the smart-sustainable city, well-being, and urban planning: An analysis of current approaches in Europe
Vasiliki Geropanta, Anna Karagianni, Sofia Mavroudi and Panagiotis Parthenios
11. Recognizing intra-urban disparities in smart cities: An example from Poland
12. Cybersecurity, sustainability, and resilience capabilities of a smart city
Part IV
Sociological reflection on the smart city and beyond
13. Sociological reflections on smart cities and city times
Pablo de Gracia-Soriano, Diana Jareno-Ruiz, Maria Jimenez-Delgado and Antonio Jimenez-Delgado
14. Smart city as the city of knowledge
15. Foresight: A visionary step for becoming a smart city
16. Transforming the city from within: SDGs and their transformative dynamics in the smart city (conclusions)
- No. of pages: 278
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 23, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323851510
- eBook ISBN: 9780323859189
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Anna Visvizi
Anna Visvizi is an economist and political scientist, editor, and research and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think tank and government sectors in Europe and the United States. Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Scholar at Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Professor Visvizi’s expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics, and ICT. This translates in her research and advisory roles in the fields of AI and geopolitics, smart cities and smart villages, knowledge and innovation management, and technology diffusion, especially with regard to the EU and BRI.
Affiliations and expertise
SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland and Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaRP
Raquel Perez del Hoyo
Raquel Pérez del Hoyo is an architect specializing in areas adjacent to city planning, building, and management. Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, Professor Pérez del Hoyo is also a researcher in the Unit of Urban Design and Regional Planning at Building Sciences and Urbanism Department at the same university. Her main area of research interest is the humanization of smart cities, especially the development of models focused on people to improve the planning and management of smart cities.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Alicante, Alicante, SpainRead Smart Cities and the UN SDGs on ScienceDirect