Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities
Evolving Intelligent Environments
A new book by Nicos Komninos, forthcoming from Routledge in the Advances in Regional Science, Economics, and Policy series. Evolving Intelligent Environments: Smart Ecosystems and Transformative Innovations in the 21st Century provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the convergence among smart ecosystems, connected intelligence, and transformative innovations, considered the foundations of intelligent [...]
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SmartGreenEcos: Call for Participation
SmartGreenEcos is a European project that aims to create a Mediterranean smart ecosystem of 100 food industry businesses, fostering collective innovation, digital and green transition, and improved business competitiveness. SmartGreenEcos brings together companies from Greece, Cyprus, Tunisia, and Jordan, in collaboration with universities and research organisations from the Aristotle University [...]
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Smart Green Ecosystems: Turning industry sectors into ecosystems
Smart Green Ecosystems is a new project co-designed by URENIO Research and approved by Interreg NEXT MED in the framework of Smarter Mediterranean. It aims to establish an ecosystem of 100 SMEs from four Mediterranean countries (Greece, Cyprus, Tunisia, and Jordan) to foster collaboration and support digital and green transitions. [...]
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A conceptual synthesis of 25 years of regional development research: Core thematic communities and emerging frontiers
This URENIO Research Working Paper, authored by Anastasia Panori, presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the intellectual landscape of regional development. It provides valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to navigate this complex and evolving field.
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Blending Nature with Technology: Integrating NBSs with RESs to Foster Carbon-Neutral Cities
As cities seek to achieve carbon neutrality, the integration of nature-based solutions (NBSs) with renewable energy sources (RESs) presents both an opportunity and a challenge, requiring an interdisciplinary approach and an innovative planning strategy. This paper published in Designs 2025, 9(3), 60, Special Issue on Positive Energy Districts, aims to explore potential [...]
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Smart carbon–neutral development: Complexity, multi-level governance, convolution
A new open-access paper on carbon-neutral smart cities published in World Development. The paper delves into the current EU policy and strategy for advancing smart carbon–neutral development across Europe, as outlined by the EU Cities Mission, which aims to boost climate neutrality across 112 cities by 2030. Primary objective of [...]
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Land, Best Paper Award
The Land Best Paper Award Committee selected the research paper “Net Zero Energy Districts: Connected Intelligence for Carbon-Neutral Cities” as the Second prize of the Land 2022 Best Paper Award. The committee determined the award based on an overall evaluation of the papers’ originality and significance, considering citations and downloads. Six [...]
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Smart Cities Series Elsevier: books published
Launched in 2017, the smart cities book series publishes a collection of insights into the diverse constitution of smart cities. In collecting these insights, the series publishes research, which improves both theory and practice of smart cities and transfers the knowledge acquired to scholars, policymakers and practitioners alike.
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Digitally Disrupted Space, by Anastasia Panori
Digitally Disrupted Space: Proximity and New Development Opportunities for Regions and Cities, by Anastasia Panori, has just been published by Elsevier Smart Cities Series. The book develops an analytical framework of the digital space structural elements and their impact on existing spatial interactions at the urban and regional levels. The [...]
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Climate City Contract of Thessaloniki
The Climate City Contract was signed on September 8, 2023, by 24 organizations that endorse and support the 2030 Action Plan for Climate Neutrality of Thessaloniki and the vision of the city towards net zero emissions. Thessaloniki’s pathways towards climate neutrality cover various sectors:
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