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

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 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

This study analyzes smart city research trends and proposes research directions, providing useful guidelines for future smart city development projects.

Research Models and Methodologies on the Smart City: A 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

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

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

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 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 4.0 and 4T capitals concepts are shaping sustainable urban development in Metropolis GZM cities, improving citizens' access to services and facilities, and increasing their impact on the future of their cities.

Smart City 4.0: Sustainable Urban Development in the Metropolis GZM

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

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 are collaborative communities, involving citizens, businesses, knowledge institutions, and municipal agencies, aiming to improve systems integration, efficiency, citizen engagement, and quality of life.

A Smart City Is a Collaborative Community

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 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

Smart cities can enhance urban performance and wealth, but success depends on space-specific characteristics and geographically differentiated policy actions.

Smart cities in the innovation age

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

Smart cities education: An insight into existing drawbacks

These studies suggest that smart cities enhance citizen involvement, environmental protection, innovation, and social capital, but also face privacy and security issues, and their success depends on local context factors and holistic, technology-driven approaches.