Topic Editors

1. Institute of International Studies (ISM), SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland
2. Effat College of Business, Effat University, Jeddah 21551, Saudi Arabia
1. Department of Computer Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
2. Department of Computer Sciences, Dar Alhekma University, Jeddah 22246, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mara Grimaldi
Department of Management & Information Technology, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Department of Management & Information Technology, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy

Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages, 2nd Volume

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Dear Colleagues,

Smart cities remain one of the most vibrant of inter- and multidisciplinary fields of research and debate today. Research in this field is driven by the realization that advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT), on one hand, create the opportunity to alleviate several challenges that progressive urbanization creates, and on the other hand, may substantially contribute to wellbeing of cities’ residents. Certainly, critical voices exist, and these should be noted. Smart villages remain a niche concept, the related debate is still nascent, and the research agenda still open. Similarly, as in the case of the smart cities research, the smart villages debate is driven by the question of how and in which ways ICT can improve wellbeing in rural areas. Even if substantial differences between both strands of research exist, the broadly conceived imperative of sustainability is common in both debates. By bringing together these two debates, the objective of this Topic is twofold, i.e., to encourage research on smart cities and smart villages, respectively, and, while doing so, to reflect on the possibility of building bridges between the two debates. The Editors of this Topic encourage submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics and issues:

  • Smart cities/villages research: new concepts, new approaches, new developments;
  • Smart cities/villages services and applications: supply and demand, issues, developments;
  • Smart cities/villages: governance, public management, value co-creation, community development;
  • Smart cities/villages: regulatory frameworks and the delivery of the best quality of services and applications;
  • Smart cities: democracy, governance, representation, participation;
  • Smart villages: issues of governability, growth, and development;
  • Smart cities/villages: leisure, tourism, art, culture, and cultural heritage;
  • Smart cities/villages: public policy perspective;
  • Smart cities/villages and migration: issues, challenges, opportunities;
  • Smart cities/villages: infrastructure development, utility, built environment and land use;
  • Smart cities/villages: mobility, accessibility, quality of life, performance, wellbeing;
  • Smart cities/villages: societal concerns, including embracing disabilities, diversity, age related needs and challenges, as well as promoting equality in opportunity, and inclusion;
  • Smart cities/villages: enhancing performance through virtual-reality- and machine-learning-based approaches and solutions;
  • Smart cities/villages: energy sustainability, including energy communities, prosumers, other;
  • Smart cities/villages: policies, policymaking, data-driven decision making;
  • Smart cities/villages: specificity and applicability to the Global South and Global North contexts.

Dr. Anna Visvizi
Dr. Wadee Alhalabi
Dr. Mara Grimaldi
Dr. Orlando Troisi
Topic Editors

Keywords

  • smart cities
  • smart villages
  • ICT
  • wellbeing
  • sustainability
  • resilience
  • growth
  • development
  • community

Participating Journals

Journal Name Impact Factor CiteScore Launched Year First Decision (median) APC
Energies
energies
3.252 5.0 2008 15.5 Days 2200 CHF Submit
Remote Sensing
remotesensing
5.349 7.4 2009 19.7 Days 2500 CHF Submit
Smart Cities
smartcities
- 5.5 2018 15.3 Days 1400 CHF Submit
Sustainability
sustainability
3.889 5.0 2009 17.7 Days 2200 CHF Submit
Urban Science
urbansci
- - 2017 19.7 Days 1200 CHF Submit

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Direction for a Transition toward Smart Sustainable Cities based on the Diagnosis of Smart City Plans
Smart Cities 2023, 6(1), 156-178; https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities6010009 - 31 Dec 2022
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Achieving urban sustainability through smart cities is necessary to manage urban environmental problems that threaten human survival. Smart city policy emphasizes the environmental aspects of urban areas while embracing the social and economic sectors, allowing for the development of practical plans for urban [...] Read more.
Achieving urban sustainability through smart cities is necessary to manage urban environmental problems that threaten human survival. Smart city policy emphasizes the environmental aspects of urban areas while embracing the social and economic sectors, allowing for the development of practical plans for urban sustainability. This study suggests smart sustainable city policy directions that can improve the transition to smart cities. It defines concepts such as smart sustainable cities, developing frameworks, and indicators. In this research, a smart sustainable city facilitated sustainable development by incorporating smart technologies into urban activities and services. In this study, indicators for smart sustainable city evaluation and diagnosis were derived. These were applied to selected case areas, such as Incheon Metropolitan City and Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do in the Republic of Korea. These indicators play an important role in assisting policymakers in making decisions, simplifying a wide range of complex information and providing integrated perspectives on existing situations. The results of this study suggest transition directions for a smart sustainable city and application strategies for related plans and policies. Full article
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Associated Information and Communication Technologies Challenges of Smart City Development
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16240; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316240 - 05 Dec 2022
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Smart cities development relies on information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve all urban aspects, including governance, economy, mobility, and environment. The development is usually associated with several challenges and negative effects. This study relies on revealing ICTs challenges by firstly conducting a [...] Read more.
Smart cities development relies on information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve all urban aspects, including governance, economy, mobility, and environment. The development is usually associated with several challenges and negative effects. This study relies on revealing ICTs challenges by firstly conducting a comprehensive literature review to identify the challenges that are most associated with ICTs. Then, a questionnaire survey was distributed among the Saudi population to study their expectations, perceptions, and concerns on the smart city concept and services. The questionnaire also investigated ICTs challenges identified from the literature review, including information security risks, privacy violation, incompatibility, and digital skill gaps. Consequently, semi-structured interviews were conducted to perceive the reasons for the incompatibility between different systems and digital skill gaps between the public. The findings show that the most likely challenges are information security risks and privacy violations, which are due to the increase in vulnerability, potential attacks, and lack of public awareness regarding personal data protection. The incompatibility between different systems and services in smart cities arouses worries among the public due to the expected high cost and difficulty of adaptation and utilization. Moreover, digital skill gaps arises between members of the population that have a low education level or are elderly persons. Full article
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Can the Smart City Pilot Policy Promote High-Quality Economic Development? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on 239 Cities in China
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16005; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316005 - 30 Nov 2022
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By the end of 2020, more than 900 cities in China had made plans to construct smart cities. Based on the data of 239 cities in China from 2003 to 2019, this study developed difference-in-difference (DID) models to evaluate the promoting effect of [...] Read more.
By the end of 2020, more than 900 cities in China had made plans to construct smart cities. Based on the data of 239 cities in China from 2003 to 2019, this study developed difference-in-difference (DID) models to evaluate the promoting effect of the smart city pilot policy on high-quality economic development. The results show that the smart city pilot policy has significantly promoted high-quality economic development, and this conclusion is still valid after a series of robustness tests. The policy is more conducive to high-quality economic development in the small and medium-sized cities of mid-western regions than in the large cities in eastern regions. The impact mechanism test shows that the pilot policy affects the high-quality economic development of a region by improving the levels of innovative development, coordinated development, green development, open development and shared development. Full article
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