URENIO, a global expert in smart cities and their strategies, is going to publish a series of articles presenting real cases of smart city strategies. We will also mention how they are coming along, as well as our top suggested informational sources for each one of them. Continue reading →

“Delivering the Smart City” report, produced by Arup and University College London (UCL), analyses the spending patterns of eight major UK cities to gain an understanding of how much cities are paying for technology, as well as considering whether this expenditure is ‘˜smart’ . Continue reading →

A new report, published by Democracy Collaborative, is a representative survey of some key emerging best practices in state and local policy-making to support community wealth building’”designed to support economic inclusion goals, create quality jobs with family-supporting wages, address generational poverty, stabilize communities and the environment, and address growing wealth inequality. Continue reading →

Smart Cities Council published a guide which contains advice, best practices and tools for creating a data-driven city. The Smart Cities Open Data Guide captures lessons learned and best practices from cities that blazed the open data trail, to provide city leaders and staff a starting point to chart their own initiatives. Continue reading →

“How Intelligent Communities are Re-inventing Urban and Rural Planning” is a White Paper of ICF that describes the annual theme of the 2015 Intelligent Community Awards.

“The work of an Intelligent Community often begins in crisis. But once the crisis is past, how do Communities Continue reading →

This paper, written by Margarita Angelidou, reviews the factors which differentiate policies for the development of smart cities, in an effort to provide a clear view of the strategic choices that come forth when mapping out such a strategy. The paper commences with a review and categorization of four strategic choices with a spatial reference, on the basis of the recent smart city literature and experience. Continue reading →

Published on August 12^th 2014, “The Age of Intelligent Cities: Smart Environments and Innovation-for-All Strategies’ by Nicos Komninos concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Continue reading →