This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.It is commonplace to discuss smart cities through the lens of advances in ICT. The resulting overemphasis on what is technologically possible downplays what is politically, socially and economically feasible. This book, by analysing the smart city through a variety of perspectives, offers a more comprehensive insight into and understanding of the complex and the open-ended nature of the growth and development of a smart city. A solid conceptual framework is developed and employed throughout the chapters, and a selection of case studies from Europe, Asia, and the Arab Peninsula grants the readers a hands-on perspective of the matters discussed.The chapters included in this book address a set of questions, including:How do the twin-processes of digitalization and smartification unfold in the context of the smart city agenda? How do these processes relate to the concepts of smart city 1.0, 2.0., 3.0. and 4.0?In which ways have the spatial aspects of city functioning been influenced by the intrusion of ICT? In which ways do the same processes contribute to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?What are the implications of smartification and the emergence of smart organizations (public, private, and voluntary) for the spatial development of smart cities?Do ICT and its application in the city space boost the processes of revitalization and how does ICT influence the process of gentrification?To what extent and how does the intrusion of ICT-enhanced tools and applications in the city space impact on a city’s relationship with its broader territorially defined context?Are the administrative borders and divisions inherent in the fabric of a city becoming less/more porous? How should urban sprawl be conceived in the context of the smart city debate?This book will have a broad appeal to academics, students, and policy makers with interests in urban planning, sustainable development, cities, economics, technology, sociology, urban studies, digitalization, SDGs, wellbeing, and resilience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-12-26
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032542492

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Anna Visvizi, PhD (dr hab.), is an economist and political scientist, editor, researcher, and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think-tank and government sectors in Europe and the United States, including the OECD. She is an Associate Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, Visiting Professor at Effat University, Saudi Arabia, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Hellenic Growth and Prosperity (IHGP), at the American College of Greece. Her expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics and ICT, especially AI and blockchain, in such domains as smart cities/smart villages, geopolitics, and business management.Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska – professor, head of Institute of Enterprise, Collegium of Business Administration at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; vice-rector at SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 2016–2020. Scientific interests, including issues in local and regional development, business location, and investment attractiveness of regions, are related to the function of an expert in local government units.

AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction Chapter 1:Not only technology: From smart city 1.0. through smart city 4.0 and beyond (an introduction)Anna VisviziHanna Godlewska-MajkowskaPart 1: Spatial aspects of smart cities’ growth and development Chapter 2Path dependence, lock-in and non-linearity in the growth and development of smart citiesHanna Godlewska-MajkowskaChapter 3The smart city and its contexts: A focus on smart villages and smart territoriesMalgorzata DziembalaRadosław MalikAnna VisviziChapter 4Smartication, quality of life, and the challenges of urbanism: the case of the Line cityAbeer S. Y. MohamedChapter 5Unveiling the Role of Urban Discontinuity on Equity in Public Green Open Spaces: The Case of Alexandria, EgyptShahira Assem Abdel-RazekSara Mohamed Sabry Zakaria IbrahimPart 2: Territory, scale, inclusion, and participation in the smart city debateChapter 6Toward the metaverse. Smartification of public space management: what do we learn from smart cities in the EU?Tomasz PilewiczChapter 7Algorithms and Geo-Discrimination Risk. What Hazards for Smart Cities’ development?Ciro Clemente De FalcoEmilia RomeoChapter 8Generative AI (GenAI) and smart cities: efficiency, cohesion, and sustainabilityMarco Moreno-IbarraMagdalena Saldaña-PerezSamuel Pérez RodríguezEmmanuel Juárez CarbajalPart 3: Navigating the constraints of time, space, territory, and built environment in the smart city contextChapter 9Smart city, ICT and older people: developing inclusive public space and housing conditionsEwelina Szczech-PietkiewiczZofia Szweda-LewandowskaJoanna FelczakPaweł KubickiChapter 10Smart transport systems and smart cities’ growth and development. The case of PolandAgnieszka DomańskaRadosław MalikChapter 11Automated vehicles in smart cities: Challenges pertaining to automated and connected transport. The case of Romania Liliana AndreiOana LucaEmanuel RăuțăChapter 12Public-private partnership (PPP) and ICT in a mega-smart-city. The case of IstanbulSabina KlimekChapter 13An alternative view on smart cities: can small towns become smart?Giovanni BaldiAntonio Botti