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Smart Cities and the UN SDGs

  • 1st Edition - April 23, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Anna Visvizi, Raquel Perez del Hoyo
  • Language: English

Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explor… Read more

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Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving as a key reference for those seeking to make sense of the issues and challenges of smart cities and SDGs.

Key features

  • Includes numerous case studies from around the world
  • Features interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner experts
  • Offers an extensive literature review

Readership

Researchers, post graduate students, professors. City planners, designers, and policymakers

Table of contents

1. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the smart city: A tool or an approach? (An introduction)
Anna Visvizi and Raquel Perez del Hoyo

Part I
Sustainability, SDGs, technology, and the city space: The smart city in the making

2. Inclusiveness, safety, resilience, and sustainability in the smart city context
Raquel Perez del Hoyo, Anna Visvizi, and Higinio Mora

3. Sustainability in smart cities: Merging theory and practice

Marco Tregua, Anna D’Auria, and Francesco Bifulco

4. Technology and SDGs in smart cities context

Chrysaida-Aliki Papadopoulou

Part II
Why smart governance is a necessity for the attainment of the SDGs and how to make it truly smart? Involving and listening to the citizens

5. Governance and SDGs in smart cities context
Shahira Assem Abdel-Razek

6. Reinterpreting governance in smart cities: An ecosystem-based view

Francesco Polese, Orlando Troisi, Mara Grimaldi and Francesca Loia

7. Open data portals for urban sustainable development: People, policies, and technology

Christine Meschede and Tobias Siebenlist

8. The potential of location-based social networks for participatory urban planning

Pablo Marti, Raquel Perez del Hoyo, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, and Clara Garcia-Mayor

9. The Green Turn: Smart cities, the SDGs, and sustainability in the EU parties’ discourse

Claudia Toriz Ramos

Part III
Safety, security, exclusion/inclusion, well-being

10. Exploring the relationship between the smart-sustainable city, well-being, and urban planning: An analysis of current approaches in Europe
Vasiliki Geropanta, Anna Karagianni, Sofia Mavroudi and Panagiotis Parthenios

11. Recognizing intra-urban disparities in smart cities: An example from Poland

Piotr Maleszyk

12. Cybersecurity, sustainability, and resilience capabilities of a smart city

Roberto O. Andrade, Sang Guun Yoo, Luis Tello-Oquendo and Ivan Ortiz-Garces

Part IV
Sociological reflection on the smart city and beyond

13. Sociological reflections on smart cities and city times
Pablo de Gracia-Soriano, Diana Jareno-Ruiz, Maria Jimenez-Delgado and Antonio Jimenez-Delgado

14. Smart city as the city of knowledge

Robert Laurini, Giuseppe Las Casas, and Beniamino Murgante

15. Foresight: A visionary step for becoming a smart city

Andrei Ștefan Neștian and Ana Iolanda Voda˘

16. Transforming the city from within: SDGs and their transformative dynamics in the smart city (conclusions)

Anna Visvizi and Raquel Perez del Hoyo

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 23, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

AV

Anna Visvizi

Anna Visvizi is an economist and political scientist, editor, and research and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think tank and government sectors in Europe and the United States. Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Scholar at Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Professor Visvizi’s expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics, and ICT. This translates in her research and advisory roles in the fields of AI and geopolitics, smart cities and smart villages, knowledge and innovation management, and technology diffusion, especially with regard to the EU and BRI.
Affiliations and expertise
SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland and Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

RP

Raquel Perez del Hoyo

Raquel Pérez del Hoyo is an architect specializing in areas adjacent to city planning, building, and management. Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, Professor Pérez del Hoyo is also a researcher in the Unit of Urban Design and Regional Planning at Building Sciences and Urbanism Department at the same university. Her main area of research interest is the humanization of smart cities, especially the development of models focused on people to improve the planning and management of smart cities.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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