Smart City 2.0: Strategies and Innovations for City Development

Almost a century since the idea of creating more humane - more human-centric - cities was brought to the fore, how far has mankind progressed towards creating a true "city with a heart"? How far off are we, and what can we do to close the gap?

The first generation of smart cities showed the limits of top-down planning, in which cities contracted out design and implementation to IT providers. As residents resented paying high taxes for "smart" urban features that they did not want or use, it became plain that smart cities were not sustainable, and needed to be re-thought. "Smart City 2.0" starts the design process with understanding the needs of human residents. Little has yet been written about smart cities' second wind.

This book offers leading-edge, international perspectives on Smart City 2.0. It offers an overview of the sustainable smart city concept, presents leading experts' latest thinking on strategies for a new generation of smart cities, and showcases eight implementation case studies from seven countries. All chapters are contributed by prominent, leading thinkers and practitioners from a dozen countries, representing both the developed and the developing worlds.

Deog-Seong Oh is President of Woosong University and former President of Chungnam National University, both in Daejeon, South Korea. Dr Oh is expert in public and urban policy, economic development, and technology commercialization. Dr Oh is a member of the UNESCO High Panel on Science for Development, and Organizing Committee Chair for UNESCO's Global Innovation Forum. He is also the chief editor of APPR (Asian Pacific Planning Review). He was formerly Secretary-General of World Technopolis Association (2004–2016) and vice president of the Korean Planners Association (KPA) and Korean Urban Management Association (KUMA). He received a Master of Urban Planning in 1979 and a Master of Science in Architecture in 1981 from Seoul National University, Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Hanover University, Germany in 1989. He did his post-doctoral research at University of Sheffield, UK in 1993. He joined the faculty of spatial planning at University of Dortmund as a visiting professor from 2002–2004. His recent research interests are on sustainable development and urban regeneration, regional innovation with technopolis and high-tech cluster, etc. He has published 250 papers in international and national journals on urban planning and design, sustainable development and regional innovation.

Fred Phillips is currently on faculty at the University of New Mexico, USA, and Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He is the 2017 winner of the Kondratieff Medal, awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is President-Elect of Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge (ACIEK), Spain, a society of innovation and entrepreneurship scholars, and he coordinates TANDO, a think-tank recently spun out of the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Fred is a Fellow of the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) and is Visiting Professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Dr Phillips is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Elsevier's international journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change. He authored the textbook Market-Oriented Technology Management (Springer, 2001), the popular title The Conscious Manager: Zen for Decision Makers (General Informatics, 2003), a book on high-tech economic development, The Technopolis Columns (Palgrave, 2006), and What About the Future? (Springer, 2019). Dr Phillips has consulted worldwide on technology based regional development. He is a founder of the Austin Technology Council, and was also a Board member for the Software Association of Oregon. Dr Phillips attended The University of Texas, USA and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, earning his Ph.D. at Texas (1978) in mathematics and management science.

Avvari V Mohan is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation, Director of Research and Malaysia Lead for the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility in the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) at the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM). Dr Avvari received his doctorate in Management of Innovation from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, following which he visited South Korea on a Research Fellowship at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Prior to joining UNM, he served as a member of the Faculty of Management at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. His research interests are in the areas of Strategy and Innovation with a special interest in Innovation Systems ― i.e. inter-organisational linkages that enable organisations to innovate and contribute to sustainable development. He has published his work in international journals and reports for international agencies.