Urbanization is recognized as one of the megatrends of our society, leading to substantial
efforts to create effective and smart cities. The scale of this effort is unsuitable for a single …

Despite the prevalence of smart city discourse across many disciplines, governance
systems, and policy-making bodies, its conceptual foundations are based either on semi …

Smart cities are becoming a popular urban development strategy to address complex and
multiple challenges confronting cities globally, including in Africa. Using the 3RC framework …

Theories of smart urbanism have overlooked the influence of contextual factors on the
conception, planning and implementation of digital transformation practices across regions …

Governments and companies across the globe are promoting smart cities, and their
developments usually reflect both globally shared ideas and locally specific agendas and …

Urban research has increasingly embraced the Global South, as recent critical scholarship
continues opening to Southern cities, scholars and ideas generated from the South. Here …

This study explores the changes and stability of urban governance through the lens of smart
city policy in Barcelona. It argues that the concept of smart cities is flexible and can be …

The concept of a “smart city” has gained currency in urban policy as a recognition of the
potentially transformative role advanced information technology will play in city operations …

Despite the proliferation of studies on waste governance over the past decades,
comparative research on advancing sustainable municipal solid waste management …

Smart city strategies highlight the potential to generate new type of data through new
technology, for example crowdsourced data. Based on an empirical study, we show the …