New Technologies for Smart City
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 17941
Special Issue Editors
Interests: business management; smart service systems; system thinking; complexity
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Dear Colleagues,
Smart cities have been a widely discussed topic over the course of the last decade. Their potential to solve challenges related to the growth of urbanization, environmental issues and the worldwide trend of population aging are motivating research in this area. The research initiatives of smart cities focus on different areas, whose range of research topics is widespread and driven by advances in new technologies, including urban planning, mobility and transportation, smart living and community, smart environment, emergency services, e-Health and government, to name a few.
The smart city can be explained in terms of a complex of digital services exchanged by a network of actors interconnected in order to share knowledge, resources, competences, and capabilities to perform better. New technologies and digital services have been considered as important components in smart cities since they are capable of connecting service providers, users, infrastructures, and communities in a common ecosystem to support value co-creation. There have been attempts to create overview models for smart cities, but some of them are quite complex, and the dependencies are usually missing in these models.
We believe that this missing piece can bring new insights into the smart city research, and help us to uncover new possibilities of interconnecting current services and providing value to citizens. This call for papers seeks foundation-building research on smart cities and smart services. We seek original and innovative contributions on both theoretical and practical aspects of the following themes:
- The new value brought by smart devices (smartphones, computers, tablets, wearables, etc.) to the daily life of service customers;
- The solutions and new approaches of technology usage related to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- The contribution of innovation and the development of smart services improving the resilience of society as a whole;
New approaches, models, or frameworks that help the researchers and practitioners to foster the development of technology usage in smart city.
Dr. Luca Carrubbo
Dr. Leonard Walletzký
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart services
- smart city
- new technologies for smart cities
- Industry 4.0
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