Description
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.- Includes numerous case studies from around the world- Features interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner experts- Offers an extensive literature review
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 HoyoPart ISustainability, SDGs, technology, and the city space: The smart city in the making2. Inclusiveness, safety, resilience, and sustainability in the smart city contextRaquel Perez del Hoyo, Anna Visvizi, and Higinio Mora3. Sustainability in smart cities: Merging theory and practiceMarco Tregua, Anna D'Auria, and Francesco Bifulco4. Technology and SDGs in smart cities contextChrysaida-Aliki PapadopoulouPart IIWhy smart governance is a necessity for the attainment of the SDGs and how to make it truly smart? Involving and listening to the citizens5. Governance and SDGs in smart cities contextShahira Assem Abdel-Razek6. Reinterpreting governance in smart cities: An ecosystem-based viewFrancesco Polese, Orlando Troisi, Mara Grimaldi and Francesca Loia7. Open data portals for urban sustainable development: People, policies, and technologyChristine Meschede and Tobias Siebenlist8. The potential of location-based social networks for participatory urban planningPablo Marti, Raquel Perez del Hoyo, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, and Clara Garcia-Mayor9. The Green Turn: Smart cities, the SDGs, and sustainability in the EU parties' discourseClaudia Toriz RamosPart IIISafety, security, exclusion/inclusion, well-being10. Exploring the relationship between the smart-sustainable city, well-being, and urban planning: An analysis of current approaches in EuropeVasiliki Geropanta, Anna Karagianni, Sofia Mavroudi and Panagiotis Parthenios11. Recognizing intra-urban disparities in smart cities: An example from PolandPiotr Maleszyk12. Cybersecurity, sustainability, and resilience capabilities of a smart cityRoberto O. Andrade, Sang Guun Yoo, Luis Tello-Oquendo and Ivan Ortiz-GarcesPart IVSociological reflection on the smart city and beyond13. Sociological reflections on smart cities and city timesPablo de Gracia-Soriano, Diana Jareno-Ruiz, Maria Jimenez-Delgado and Antonio Jimenez-Delgado14. Smart city as the city of knowledgeRobert Laurini, Giuseppe Las Casas, and Beniamino Murgante15. Foresight: A visionary step for becoming a smart cityAndrei 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
