This talk at the “Nobel 1st Conference in Urbanism“, Olso 8-10 December 2021, discusses how cities change under the smart city paradigm. There is evidence that the smart city is becoming the dominant urban development and planning paradigm in the 21st-century shaping how cities and communities evolve under the impact of data, e-services and cyber-physical…

Net Zero Energy Districts (NZED) are city districts in which the annual amount of CO2 emissions released minus of emissions removed from the atmosphere tend to zero. NZEDs constitute a major component of a new generation of “smart-green” cities that combine smart city technologies and renewable energy technologies. NZEDs promote environmental sustainability; they contribute to…

International Conference: “Legal Perspectives on the Internet” – Cyberspace, The Final Frontier? Concluding And Performing Agreements – 30th-31st of October 2021 The Faculty of Law of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iasi, Law Doctoral School in partnership with the Faculty of Computer Science, the National Institute for Training and Professional Development of Lawyers – Iasi…

Workshop of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 19 June 2021 Abstract  Intelligent cities or smart cities evolve bottom-up along with the digitisation and the creation of digital entities linked to human activities, physical space, and institutional setting of cities; but also, they progress top-down through smart city strategies and projects…

There are numerous reviews on smart city plans and projects that allow understanding what cities do to implement the smart city model. This is the case, for instance, of the book Technology and the city: Systems, applications and implications authored by Tan Yigitcanlar and published by Routledge (2016). Tan reviewed ten cities in Asia, Europe,…

Mona Roman, director of innovation at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, wrote a review about our book Smart Cities in the Post-Algorithmic Era: Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance published by Edward Elgar. On this occasion, this note refers to the title of the book. Smart Cities in the Post-Algorithmic Era is a collection of…

The present work for the Smart City Ontology (SCO 2.0) continues the efforts that started in 2015, integrates and re-uses many entities (classes, object properties, data properties) of the initial version (SCO 1.), but also has some important differences. The motivation for continuing the work on the smart city ontology has been the interest of…

Smart city project: A project from Singapore in which a city environment for agriculture and food production can control the characteristics of the plants and food properties without using GMO. The full video via National Geographic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6r3hZe5Tg&t=737s  

Two important reports about the market and vendors of smart cities help understand a gap related to the supply chain of smart cities. The first is the Frost & Sullivan report “Smart Cities – Frost & Sullivan Value Proposition” [1]. The second is the IoT Analytics report “Smart City Use Cases & Technology Report 2020”…

Last week, I encountered two events related to research and innovation. The University of San Diego has published a visual resource guide titled “Business Innovation and Leadership Lessons From 8 Revolutionary Entrepreneurs” which lists the most important measures of innovation that companies use. It is based on a survey carried out by PWC in 1200…