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Smart City Code
Governance Handbook for Digital Transformation Managers in the Public Sector
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2025
- Authors: Luca Mora, Paolo Gerli, Dominik Beckers, Sara Thabit, Francesco Tonnarelli
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 4 0 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 4 0 1 - 2
Smart City Code: Governance Handbook for Digital Transformation Managers in the Public Sector explores how to govern the planning, implementation, and maintenance operations in sma… Read more
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Request a sales quote- Provides a code that is concise, simple in language, practical, evidence-based, and user-oriented-designed as a ready-to-use and easy-to-interpret supporting tool for digital transformation managers
- Draws on a robust and diversified knowledge base, with a structure and functioning based on the findings of a research project developed in collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
- Outlines a future research agenda that invites smart city debates to strengthen their focus on the structural problems undermining urban sustainability and the societal challenges emerging from cross-disciplinary objects like smart city transitions
1. Public sector setting
2. Policy and regulations
3. Planning
Part 2: Innovation Ecosystem
4. Coalitions
5. Coalition building
6. Innovation hubs
Part 3: Technological Infrastructure
7. Information architecture
8. Service design and delivery
- No. of pages: 200
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443134029
- eBook ISBN: 9780443134012
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Luca Mora
Luca is a Professor of Urban Innovation at Edinburgh Napier University’s Business School, where he leads both the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Subject Group and the Urban Innovation Policy Lab. This research lab hosts over 25 academics whose expertise connects social sciences with engineering and technology disciplines. Additionally, Luca holds the position of Professor of Urban Innovation at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), where he supports the development of the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, a €32 million investment through the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program. With 15 years of experience in conducting multidisciplinary research that bridges urban studies, computer science, and innovation management, Luca has been introducing new theoretical and practical advancements in the field of smart city development. His scholarly work has been widely published in prestigious journals, including Organization Studies, Regional Studies, Public Administration Review, Information System Journal, Technovation, Government Information Quarterly, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Cities. Luca has been serving as an academic consultant for several intergovernmental organizations such as the European Commission, the United Nations, and the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this capacity, he authored three major United Nations reports on digital transformation governance in urban areas. Luca's efforts have contributed to generating over €43 million through research and consultancy projects, predominantly supported by European funding schemes. In addition to his research and consulting work, Luca is an active member of the editorial board for the Journal of Urban Technology and serves as Executive Editor for Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He has also been a guest editor for seven Special Issues on smart city development in notable academic journals.
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Paolo Gerli
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Dominik Beckers
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Sara Thabit
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