Smarter As the New Urban Agenda ― A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City

?This book will provide one of thefirst comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city governments withtheories and concepts for understanding and researching 21st century citygovernments innovative methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of smartcity initiatives. The term “smart city” is now generally used to representefforts that in different ways describe a comprehensive vision of a city forthe present and future. A smarter city infuses information into its physicalinfrastructure to improve conveniences, facilitate mobility, add efficiencies,conserve energy, improve the quality of air and water, identify problems andfix them quickly, recover rapidly from disasters, collect data to make betterdecisions, deploy resources effectively and share data to enable collaborationacross entities and domains. These and other similar efforts are expected tomake cities more intelligent in terms of efficiency, effectiveness,productivity, transparency, and sustainability, among other important aspects.Given this changing social, institutional and technology environment, it seemsfeasible and likeable to attain smarter cities and by extension, smartergovernments: virtually integrated, networked, interconnected, responsive, andefficient. This book will help build the bridge between sound research andpractice expertise in the area of smarter cities and will be of interest to researchersand students in the e-government, public administration, political science,communication, information science, administrative sciences and management,sociology, computer science, and information technology. As well as governmentofficials and public managers who will find practical recommendations based onrigorous studies that will contain insights and guidance for the development,management, and evaluation of complex smart cities and smart governmentinitiatives.?