Untangling Smart Cities
From Utopian Dreams to Innovation Systems for a Technology-Enabled Urban Sustainability
- 1st Edition - June 27, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Luca Mora, Mark Deakin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 4 7 7 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 4 7 8 - 6
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Request a sales quoteUntangling 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.
- Provides clarity on smart city concepts and strategies
- Presents a systematic literature analysis on the state-of-the-art of smart cities' research using bibliometrics combined with practical applications
- Offers a comprehensive and systematic analysis of smart cities research produced during its first three decades
- Generates a strong connection between theory and practice by providing the scientific knowledge necessary to approach the complex nature of smart cities
- Documents five main development pathways for smart cities development, serving the needs of city managers and policymakers with concrete advice and guidance
Smart City researchers and graduate students from sustainability, transport, energy, environmental science, engineering, economics, public health, behavior, and urban planning departments; Smart City planners and engineers involved with research, consultancy, funding, and distribution of services, products, and technologies; City policy makers in government and development agencies
Preface: The landscape of smart cities ix
1 Moving beyond the smart city utopia 1.1 Utopian urbanism1.2 Smart cities and the new utopia1.3 Making sense of smart cities: Aim and structure of this book 9 References
2 Smart city development as an ICT-driven approach to urban sustainability 2.1 Introduction2.2 Cities in the digital era: Emerging technological trends2.2.1 Faster, cheaper, smaller: The evolutionary process in the ICT sector2.2.2 Intangible: The virtual image of cities2.2.3 Everywhere: Mobility, ubiquity, and the Internet of Things2.2.4 Volume, velocity, and variety: Data production in the digital era2.3 Smart stories: Deploying ICT to boost urban sustainability2.3.1 Facilitating the sustainable management of natural resources2.3.2 Ensuring equal access to basic services and infrastructures2.3.3 Improving food security2.3.4 Promoting environmentally sound waste management and reducing waste generation2.3.5 Improving the resilience of cities to natural disasters 41 2.4 The smart city movement is worldwideReferences
3 The first two decades of research on smart city development 3.1 Introduction3.2 Bibliometrics and the analysis of knowledge domains3.3 The first two decades of smart-city research3.3.1 New and fast-growing 64 3.3.2 Lack of cohesion3.3.3 Divergent roots3.3.4 Two leading knowledge hubs3.4 A promising but divided research field3.5 The need to act in concertReferences 80
4 Revealing the main development paths of smart cities 4.1 Introduction 89 4.2 Hybrid techniques for thematic cluster analysis4.3 Research methodology and results of the data processing phase4.4 Multiple smart city development paths4.4.1 Experimental path (C.02): Smart cities as testbeds for IoT solutions4.4.2 Ubiquitous path (C.05): The Korean experience of ubiquitous cities4.4.3 Corporate path (C.08): IBM and the corporate smart city model4.4.4 European path (C.14): Smart city for a low-carbon economy4.4.5 Holistic path (C.17): Digital, intelligent, smart4.5 The dichotomous nature of smart city research4.5.1 Dichotomy 1: Technology-led or holistic?4.5.2 Dichotomy 2: Top-down or bottom-up?4.5.3 Dichotomy 3: Double or quadruple-helix?4.5.4 Dichotomy 4: Monodimensional or integrated?References
5 Smart city development in Europe 5.1 Introduction5.2 Hypothesis testing with case study research: Phase 15.3 A multiple case study analysis into European best practices5.3.1 Dichotomy 1: Technology-led or holistic strategy5.3.2 Dichotomy 2: Double- or quadruple-helix model of collaboration5.3.3 Dichotomy 3: Top-down or bottom-up approach5.3.4 Dichotomy 4: Monodimensional or integrated intervention logic5.4 Strategic principles for smart city development: Lessons from Europe5.4.1 Strategic principle 1: Look beyond technology5.4.2 Strategic principle 2: Move toward a quadruple-helix collaborative model5.4.3 Strategic principle 3: Combine top-down (government-led) and bottom-up (community-driven)5.4.4 Strategic principle 4: Build a strategic framework5.4.5 Strategic principle 5: Boost the digital transformation by establishing a smart city accelerator5.4.6 Strategic principle 6: Adopt an integrated intervention logic5.5 Toward a smart-city knowledge platform 161 References
6 Smart city development in North America6.1 The architecture of smart cities6.2 Hypothesis testing with case study research: Phase 26.3 Smart city development in New York City6.3.1 Building Block A: Collaborative environment6.3.2 Building Block B: Strategic framework6.3.3 Building Block C: Network infrastructure6.3.4 Building Block D: ICT services and applications6.4 Extending the generalization 206 6.4.1 Philadelphia, Quebec City, Mexico City and Seattle6.4.2 Camden 208 6.4.3 Kansas City 209 References
7 The social shaping of smart cities7.1 Smart cities and the dynamics of expectations7.2 Separating the hype from reality: Key lessons and recommendations7.2.1 Reframing smart city research7.2.2 Smart cities as complex adaptive systems for urban innovation7.2.3 Strategizing and operationalizing the smart cityReferences
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- Published: June 27, 2019
- No. of pages (Paperback): 414
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128154779
- eBook ISBN: 9780128154786
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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Urban Innovation at The Business School of Edinburgh Napier University and at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies of Tallinn University of TechnologyMD
Mark Deakin
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, ScotlandRead Untangling Smart Cities on ScienceDirect