Smart Cities and the UN SDGs

Anna Visvizi is an economist and political scientist, editor, and research and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think tank and government sectors in Europe and the United States. Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Scholar at Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Professor Visvizi’s expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics, and ICT. This translates in her research and advisory roles in the fields of AI and geopolitics, smart cities and smart villages, knowledge and innovation management, and technology diffusion, especially with regard to the EU and BRI. Raquel Pérez del Hoyo is an architect specializing in areas adjacent to city planning, building, and management. Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, Professor Pérez del Hoyo is also a researcher in the Unit of Urban Design and Regional Planning at Building Sciences and Urbanism Department at the same university. Her main area of research interest is the humanization of smart cities, especially the development of models focused on people to improve the planning and management of smart cities.

• 1. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the smart city: A tool or an approach? (An introduction)Anna Visvizi and Raquel Perez del HoyoPart ISustainability, SDGs, technology, and the city space: The smart city in the making2. Inclusiveness, safety, resilience, and sustainability in the smart city contextRaquel Perez del Hoyo, Anna Visvizi, and Higinio Mora3. Sustainability in smart cities: Merging theory and practiceMarco Tregua, Anna D’Auria, and Francesco Bifulco4. Technology and SDGs in smart cities contextChrysaida-Aliki PapadopoulouPart IIWhy smart governance is a necessity for the attainment of the SDGs and how to make it truly smart? Involving and listening to the citizens5. Governance and SDGs in smart cities contextShahira Assem Abdel-Razek6. Reinterpreting governance in smart cities: An ecosystem-based viewFrancesco Polese, Orlando Troisi, Mara Grimaldi and Francesca Loia7. Open data portals for urban sustainable development: People, policies, and technologyChristine Meschede and Tobias Siebenlist8. The potential of location-based social networks for participatory urban planningPablo Marti, Raquel Perez del Hoyo, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, and Clara Garcia-Mayor9. The Green Turn: Smart cities, the SDGs, and sustainability in the EU parties’ discourseClaudia Toriz RamosPart IIISafety, security, exclusion/inclusion, well-being10. Exploring the relationship between the smart-sustainable city, well-being, and urban planning: An analysis of current approaches in EuropeVasiliki Geropanta, Anna Karagianni, Sofia Mavroudi and Panagiotis Parthenios11. Recognizing intra-urban disparities in smart cities: An example from PolandPiotr Maleszyk12. Cybersecurity, sustainability, and resilience capabilities of a smart cityRoberto O. Andrade, Sang Guun Yoo, Luis Tello-Oquendo and Ivan Ortiz-GarcesPart IVSociological reflection on the smart city and beyond13. Sociological reflections on smart cities and city timesPablo de Gracia-Soriano, Diana Jareno-Ruiz, Maria Jimenez-Delgado and Antonio Jimenez-Delgado14. Smart city as the city of knowledgeRobert Laurini, Giuseppe Las Casas, and Beniamino Murgante15. Foresight: A visionary step for becoming a smart cityAndrei Ștefan Neștian and Ana Iolanda Voda˘16. Transforming the city from within: SDGs and their transformative dynamics in the smart city (conclusions)Anna Visvizi and Raquel Perez del Hoyo