Smart Cities

Lock-in, Path-dependence and Non-linearity of Digitalization and Smartification
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-53950-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visvizi, Anna

Godlewska-Majkowska, Hanna

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Immobilienwirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1:

Not only technology: From smart city 1.0. through smart city 4.0 and beyond (an introduction)

- Anna Visvizi

- Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska

 

Part 1: Spatial aspects of smart cities’ growth and development

Chapter 2

Path dependence, lock-in and non-linearity in the growth and development of smart cities

- Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska

Chapter 3

The smart city and its contexts: A focus on smart villages and smart territories

- Malgorzata Dziembala

- Radoslaw Malik

- Anna Visvizi

Chapter 4

Smartication, quality of life, and the challenges of urbanism: the case of the Line city

- Abeer S. Y. Mohamed

Chapter 5

Unveiling the Role of Urban Discontinuity on Equity in Public Green Open Spaces: The Case of Alexandria, Egypt

- Shahira Assem Abdel-Razek

- Sara Mohamed Sabry Zakaria Ibrahim

 

Part 2: Territory, scale, inclusion, and participation in the smart city debate

Chapter 6

Toward the metaverse. Smartification of public space management: what do we learn from smart cities in the EU?

- Tomasz Pilewicz

Chapter 7

Algorithms and Geo-Discrimination Risk. What Hazards for Smart Cities’ development?

- Ciro Clemente De Falco

- Emilia Romeo

Chapter 8

Generative AI (GenAI) and smart cities: efficiency, cohesion, and sustainability

- Marco Moreno-Ibarra

- Magdalena Saldaña-Perez

- Samuel Pérez Rodríguez

- Emmanuel Juárez Carbajal

 

Part 3: Navigating the constraints of time, space, territory, and built environment in the smart city context

Chapter 9

Smart city, ICT and older people: developing inclusive public space and housing conditions

- Ewelina Sz

Über Autor(innen)

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.