Smart Cities Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition

Smart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM?s Smart Planet and CISCO?s Smart Cities and Communities programmes, their potential to deliver on global sustainable development targets have captured the public?s attention. However, despite this growing interest in the development of smart cities, little has as yet been published that either sets out the state-of-the-art, or which offers a less than subjective, arm?s length and dispassionate account of their potential contribution.

This book brings together cutting edge research and the findings from technical development projects from leading authorities within the field to capture the transition to smart cities. It explores what is understood about smart cities, playing particular attention on the governance, modelling and analysis of the transition that smart cities seek to represent. In paving the way for such a representation, the book begins to account for the social capital of smart communities and begins the task of modelling their embedded intelligence through an analysis of what the "embedded intelligence of smart cities" contributes to the sustainability of urban development.

This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary perspective and shall be of interest to researchers, policy analysts and technical experts involved in and responsible for the planning, development and design of smart cities. It will also be of particular value to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in Geography, Architecture and Planning.

Chapter 1: Introduction (to Smart Cities) Section 1: Governing the Transition Chapter 2: From Intelligent to Smart CitiesChapter 3: e-Governance as an Enabler of the Smart CityChapter 4: The IntelCities Community of Practice Chapter 5: What Makes Cities Intelligent? Chapter 6: The Embedded Intelligence of Smart Cities Section 2: Modelling the Transition Chapter 7: Smart Cities: A Nexus for Open Innovation? Chapter 8: The Triple Helix Model of Smart Cities: A Neo-evolutionary Perspective Chapter 9: SCRAN: the Network Section 3: Analysing the Transition Chapter 10: Smart Cities in Europe Chapter11: An Advanced Triple-Helix Network Framework for Smart Cities Performance Chapter 12: Conclusion (on the State of the Transition)

Mark Deakin is Professor of Built Environment in the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University. He is also Head of the Centre for Sustainable Communities in the Institute for Sustainable Construction, at Edinburgh Napier University. His research focuses on Sustainable Urban Development, Intelligent Cities, Smart Cities and Communities.