1st Edition
Smart Cities to Smart Societies Moving Beyond Technology
Lists of figures
List of tables
About the editors
List of contributors
Foreword by Martin de Jong
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Esmat Zaidan, Imad Antoine Ibrahim, and Elie Azar
Part I
Smart Cities and Citizens
1. For us, by us? The role of citizens in smart cities
Øyvind Stokseth, Harald Borgebund & Henrik Skaug Sætra
2. Including disadvantaged citizens in smart societies: How learning in formal and informal educational settings fosters digital literacy
Alexander Smit, Maud Rebergen, Joëlle Swart, Marcel Broersma
3. From a smart city to wise citizens – Smart empowering with artificial intelligence
Kristina Khutsishivili
4. Smart and connected communities: From top-down to bottom-up approaches to city development
Brittany Lee
Part II
Smart Cities and Governance
5. Smart cities and public data - Current challenges and potential solutions
Ana Rita Antunes, Mariana Silva, Bárbara Patrício, Margarida Prozil1 and António Ferreira Dias
6. Strengthening governance accountability in smart cities: The case of urban energy transition in Jakarta, Indonesia
Elena Reshetova & Kris Hartley
7. City of challenges: Towards eco-technological innovation? Examples from Morocco and South Korea
Patrizia Ingallina, Jungyoon Park & Marco Carlotti
8. Smartifying [informal] cities through platform urbanism
Lynn Abdouni
Part III
Smart Cities and the Law
9. Smart cities as new battlegrounds in the geopolitics of international law
Shisong Jiang & Xinyue Zheng
10. Navigating international legal frontiers for sustainable urbanisation
Leila Hennaoui
11. Individuals’ privacy and data collection in the context of smart cities: Law and policy review
Ridoan Karim
Conclusion
Esmat Zaidan, Imad Antoine Ibrahim, and Elie Azar
Index
Biography
Esmat Zaidan is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. She has published over 65 articles, predominantly in Q1 journals indexed by Scopus and ISI Web of Science, and has been recognised as one of the global 2% Most Cited Scientists in her field.
Imad Antoine Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law and Governance at Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
Elie Azar is a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, Canada. His primary research focuses on integrating research methods and knowledge from different disciplines to promote a sustainable, resilient, and people-centric built environment.
