Smart cities in Europe are defined by a creative class, quality urban environment, education, and access to and use of ICTs for public administration, positively correlated with urban wealth.

Smart Cities in Europe

Smart cities are a complex concept with potential and limitations, and this issue explores their goals, ethics, potential, and limitations in urban modernity.

Thinking about smart cities

Smart city development can enhance citizen involvement, protect the environment, foster innovation, and increase social capital, while also potentially causing privacy and security issues.

Identifying the results of smart city development: Findings from systematic literature review

This paper provides a guide to smart city research, highlighting the importance of sensing, transportation, data management, and application layers for successful implementation and future trends.

A Decade Review on Smart Cities: Paradigms, Challenges and Opportunities

A smart city is a city that combines technology, infrastructure, and human resources to improve performance and efficiency compared to traditional cities.

Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives

Smart cities use information and communication technologies to improve quality of life, local economy, transport, traffic management, environment, and government interaction, while also aligning with UN sustainable development goals.

Smart cities: Advances in research - An information systems perspective

Smart city research is often fragmented, technology-driven, and lacks holistic perspectives on benefits, downsides, and empirical testing of conceptual frameworks.

Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review

Smart cities need a comprehensive governance framework to improve city life and economic development, but currently each city applies its own governance framework.

Governing Smart Cities

Smart Cities should incorporate ten resilience dimensions, including smart economy, governance, people, mobility, living, and environment, to enhance their disaster resilience.

Characterising Smartness to Make Smart Cities Resilient

Smart cities offer opportunities to address urban challenges and improve living conditions, but require a data-centric approach and key enabling technologies for successful implementation.

A literature survey on smart cities

The proposed information-centric platform effectively supports Smart City ICT services, enhancing e-government, public administration, and safety applications.

Information centric services in Smart Cities

Smart city planning faces conflicting views and requires proper scrutiny to understand their meanings, intentions, and 'offerings' for creative and inclusive urban spaces.

How do we understand smart cities? An evolutionary perspective

This paper explores the Smart City literature from an objective data-based perspective, highlighting major trends and providing a single entry point for newcomers.

Smart City and information technology: A review

Smart cities, driven by corporate interests, can normalize the structural and social violence inherent in urban transformations, highlighting the need for further research on power dynamics in smart city implementation.

Smart cities and the banality of power

Smart cities are viewed as global best practice models, with a transformative governance agenda, and five critical junctures in their discourse regime highlighting ongoing boundary work and tensions.

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

IBM's smart city campaign is a corporate storytelling effort that mobilizes systems thinking and utopianism, highlighting the need for alternative smart city stories.

Smart cities as corporate storytelling

Smart City initiatives are influenced by local context factors, such as economic development, urban structure, geographical location, and population density, affecting their digital path and implementation strategies.

Current trends in Smart City initiatives: some stylised facts

Smart city research needs detailed genealogies, comparative research, and stronger collaboration with stakeholders to better understand and refashion the smart city agenda.

Making sense of smart cities: addressing present shortcomings

Smart city education faces challenges such as shortcomings in existing initiatives, negative consequences, and technology-related issues.

Smart cities education: An insight into existing drawbacks

Smart city policy should address global urban interdependencies to improve local policy efficiency and effectively manage urban development.

Smart networked cities?

These studies suggest that smart cities integrate technology, infrastructure, and human resources to improve urban life, economy, and environment, but face challenges in governance, privacy, and holistic research.