**Preface to "State of the Art and Future Perspectives in Smart and Sustainable Urban Development"**

In the age of climate, disaster, and pandemic catastrophes, it is of utmost important to transform our cities into sustainable, resilient, robust, and liveable metropolises. Ensuring, smart and sustainable urban development is critical to meet our growing needs for natural resources, industrial products, energy, food, transportation, shelter, and effective waste management, while conserving and protecting environmental quality and the natural resource base, which is essential for future life and development.

This book contributes to the conceptual and practical knowledge pools in order to improve the research and practice on smart and sustainable urban development by presenting an informed understanding of the subject to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. This book presents contributions—in the form of research articles, literature reviews, case reports, and short communications—offering insights into the smart and sustainable urban development by conducting in-depth conceptual debates, detailed case study descriptions, thorough empirical investigations, systematic literature reviews, or forecasting analyses. This way, the book forms a repository of relevant information, material, and knowledge to support research, policymaking, practice, and the transferability of experiences to address urbanization and other planetary challenges.

The scope of this book—which compiles the cutting-edge work of researchers that have investigated the state of the art and future perspectives in smart and sustainable urban development—includes the following broad areas and other relevant topics:


**Tan Yigitcanlar** *Editor*
