Special Issue "Smart City Development and Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Alberto Gianoli
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Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Interests: urban environment; urban sustainability; climate change mitigation and adaptation; smart cities
Prof. Dr. Jurian Edelenbos
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Guest Editor
Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: vital cities; smart governance; boundary spanning; community-based initiatives; networks; network management; citizen participation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

There is an extensive body of literature that emphasizes how the use of information and communication technologies is a crucial element of smart city development strategies. Over the past two decades, the practical applications of this paradigm have led to numerous examples of urban areas applying data-driven technological approaches in different areas including innovative mobility, energy efficiency, and green and grey infrastructures and related services. However, in addition to a persistent lack of conceptual clarity, the actual effect of smart cities on the sustainability of urban areas is even less understood from both a theoretical and empirical perspective in terms of the environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The need to integrate the technological perspective with a more holistic and integrated understanding of smart cities has been advocated by numerous scholars. How this can be realized in practice and contribute to the three pillars of sustainability is still an open question. Against this background, this Special Issue of Sustainability invites papers that focus on the relationship between smart city development and sustainability and address the following key questions in particular:

  1. Are existing conceptualizations of smart cities adequate to capture the multiple dimensions of sustainability?
  2. Under what conditions do smart cities promote environmental, social, and economic sustainability?
  3. Which methodological frameworks can be used to assess the impact of smart cities on sustainability?
  4. What lessons have been learned from the implementation of smart city development strategies and their effects on sustainability?

Dr. Alberto Gianoli
Prof. Dr. Jurian Edelenbos
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • smart city development
  • smart cities and technological innovation
  • smart cities and sustainability
  • smart cities impacts

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Infrastructure Elements for Smart Campuses: A Bibliometric Analysis
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7960; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147960 - 16 Jul 2021
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Sustainable development can be attained at a microlevel and having smart campuses around the world presents an opportunity to achieve city-wide smartness. In the process of attaining smartness on campuses, the elements requiring attention must be investigated. There are many publications on smart [...] Read more.
Sustainable development can be attained at a microlevel and having smart campuses around the world presents an opportunity to achieve city-wide smartness. In the process of attaining smartness on campuses, the elements requiring attention must be investigated. There are many publications on smart campuses, and this investigation used the bibliometric analysis method to identify such publications produced over the last decade. A matrix of 578 nodes and 3217 edges was developed from 285 publications on smart campus construction and procurement. Fifteen cluster themes were produced from the bibliometric analysis. The findings revealed that China contributed 48.4% of all published articles on the smart campus. The findings presented a framework from the cluster themes under the four broad infrastructure areas of building construction or repurposing, technology and IT network, continuous improvement, and smart learning and teaching management. The implications of the findings identified that IT project management, traditional procurement strategy, and standard forms of contracts such as the New Engineering Contract (NEC) and the Joint Contract Tribunal (JCT) are applicable in the procurement of smart cities. Full article
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City Digital Twin Potentials: A Review and Research Agenda
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3386; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063386 - 18 Mar 2021
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The city digital twin is anticipated to accurately reflect and affect the city’s functions and processes to enhance its realization, operability, and management. Although research on the city digital twin is still in its infancy, the advancement of the digital twin technology is [...] Read more.
The city digital twin is anticipated to accurately reflect and affect the city’s functions and processes to enhance its realization, operability, and management. Although research on the city digital twin is still in its infancy, the advancement of the digital twin technology is growing fast and providing viable contributions to augmenting smart city developments. This study reviews the literature to identify the current and prospective potentials and challenges of digital twin cities. A research agenda is also proposed to guide future research on the city digital twincity digital twin to reach the utmost level of a comprehensive and complete city digital twin. Enhancing the efficiency of data processing, promoting the inclusion of socio-economic components of the city, and developing mutual integration between the two counterparts of the digital twin are proposed to be the future research directions to achieve and utilize a completely mirrored city digital twin. Full article
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