1st Edition

Smart Cities Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition

Edited By Mark Deakin Copyright 2014
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction (to Smart Cities) Mark Deakin  Section 1: Governing the Transition  Chapter 2: From Intelligent to Smart Cities Mark Deakin  Chapter 3: e-Governance as an Enabler of the Smart City Krassimira Paskaleva  Chapter 4: The IntelCities Community of Practice Mark Deakin, Patrizia Lombardi and Ian Cooper  Chapter 5: What Makes Cities Intelligent? Nico Komninos  Chapter 6: The Embedded Intelligence of Smart Cities Mark Deakin  Section 2: Modelling the Transition  Chapter 7: Smart Cities: A Nexus for Open Innovation? Krassimira Paskaleva  Chapter 8: The Triple Helix Model of Smart Cities: A Neo-evolutionary Perspective Mark Deakin and Loet Leydesdorff  Chapter 9: SCRAN: the Network Mark Deakin and PeterCruickshank  Section 3: Analysing the Transition  Chapter 10: Smart Cities in Europe Andreas Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo and Peter Nijkamp  Chapter11: An Advanced Triple-Helix Network Framework for Smart Cities Performance Karima Kourtit, Mark Deakin, Andrea Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo, Peter Nijkamp, Patrizia Lombardi and Silvia Giordano  Chapter 12: Conclusion (on the State of the Transition) Mark Deakin

Biography

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.