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Decoding the Smart City

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society, 2020
Smart city systems and applications are shaping how we experience urban life. While some of these changes are obvious, many remain unseen. These technologies are intended to make our lives more convenient, and can be measured in quantitative terms like efficiency and cost-savings, but how do we gain a fuller picture of their impacts?
Sayún, Michel Nader   +3 more
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Smart Cities as “EnvironMental” Cities

2013
Starting from the references to Smart Cities and Living Labs included in the Strategic Research Framework of the European Joint Programming Initiative "Urban Europe", the paper tries to outline the basic notions of a more limited reference framework, specifically aimed at fostering an approach to Smart City through an Urban/Territorial Living Lab ...
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Smart City or Smurfs City

2014
Very often the concept of smart city is strongly related to the widespread of mobile applications, completely forgetting the essence of a city with its connected problems. The real challenge in future years will be the huge population migration from rural areas to cities.
Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso
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Smart cities are healthy cities, healthy cities are smart

2022
When we look at the evolution of cities we can see a major turning point occurring as we speak. Cities have grown extremely vulnerable in many ways in the social economic era of consumption based capitalism. It is not just the issue of maintaining peace and prosperity in a population that is torn apart by economic differences.
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Fully smart cities: Analysis of the city to Smart City transformation process

2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2016
Ever since the birth of the Smart City paradigm, a wide variety of initiatives have sprung up involving this phenomenon: best practices, projects, pilot projects, transformation plans, models, standards, indicators, measuring systems, etc. The question to ask, applicable to any government official, city planner or researcher, is whether this effect is ...
Félix Herrera Priano   +1 more
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Smart Cities Learning

International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence, 2012
The cities, despite the huge size reached by some and the problems by which they are sometimes afflicted, continue to attract people and pose epochal sustainability challenges to which policy makers and planners have decided to respond with a top-down functionalist approach aiming at transforming the cities in “smart cities”.
Carlo Giovannella, Vincenzo Baraniello
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Conceptualizing “Smart Cities”

Informatik-Spektrum, 2016
“Smart City” has become a buzzword. Much is being written about smart cities as we speak, most of it promotional and uncritical. The goal of this article is not to criticize smart cities, nor is it to promote them. Rather, we would like to make a contribution to the conceptualization of smart cities and, by doing so, help the concept to become ...
Matthias Finger, Mohamad Razaghi
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Smart Students for Smart Cities

2023 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2023
Mihai Octavian Popescu   +2 more
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On Bikes in Smart Cities

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences, 2019
In this paper, we discuss data models and data mining for bicycles in Smart Cities. Mobility issues (or Smart Mobility) are one of the main components of Smart Cities. Bicycles, as a transport component in the cities, are on the rise all over the world. At least, it is true for all areas where the climate even minimally allows it. The reasons are quite
Dmitry Namiot, Manfred Sneps-Sneppe
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The new smart cities

Communications of the ACM, 2015
How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.
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