Smart cities : lock-in, path-dependence, and non-linearity of digitalization and smartification - Visvizi, Anna, 1976-; Godlewska-Majkowska, Hanna (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025)
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. 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Smart cities -- Technological innovations; Telecommunication systems -- Technological innovations; Information technology -- Technological innovations; Communication -- Technological innovations; Villes intelligentes -- Innovations; Systèmes de télécommunications -- Innovations; Technologies de l'information et de la communication