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Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities

  • Analyzes the theoretical foundations of Smart Cities regarding their concept and dimensions within a governmental context
  • Focuses on how e-government projects could be addressed to improve Smart Cities’ development and why similar e-government initiatives obtain different outcomes under different contexts
  • Investigates motives of public managers and politicians undertaking actions to promote Smart Cities’ development
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT, volume 8)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Smart Cities: Big Cities, Complex Governance?

    • Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
    Pages 1-7
  3. Designing Next Generation Smart City Initiatives: The SCID Framework

    • Adegboyega Ojo, Edward Curry, Tomasz Janowski, Zamira Dzhusupova
    Pages 43-67
  4. Evaluating the Performance of Smart Cities in the Global Economic Network

    • Ronald Wall, Spyridon Stavropoulos, Jurian Edelenbos, Filipa Pajević
    Pages 87-113
  5. Stakeholder Engagement in the Smart City: Making Living Labs Work

    • Krassimira Paskaleva, Ian Cooper, Per Linde, Bo Peterson, Christina Götz
    Pages 115-145
  6. Conclusions

    • Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolívar
    Pages 181-185

About this book

There has been much attention paid to the idea of Smart Cities as researchers have sought to define and characterize the main aspects of the concept, including the role of creative industries in urban growth, the importance of social capital in urban development, and the role of urban sustainability. This book develops a critical view of the Smart City concept, the incentives and role of governments in promoting the development of Smart Cities and the analysis of experiences of e-government projects addressed to enhance Smart Cities. This book further analyzes the perceptions of stakeholders, such as public managers or politicians, regarding the incentives and role of governments in Smart Cities and the critical analysis of e-government projects to promote Smart Cities’ development, making the book valuable to academics, researchers, policy-makers, public managers, international organizations and technical experts in understanding the role of government to enhance Smart Cities’ projects.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty of Business Studies, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Manuel Pedro Rodríguez-Bolívar

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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