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Understanding Smart Cities - Leonidas G. Anthopoulos

Understanding Smart Cities

A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick?
Buch | Hardcover
VIII, 273 Seiten
2026 | 2. Second Edition 2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-12852-2 (ISBN)
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This book investigates the evolving role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and digital government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights its importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles, technological artifacts, guides and ideas for smart governance in the era of global urbanization and innovation to help with the challenges in maintaining the democratic system of checks and balances as well as the division of powers in a highly interconnected world. Revised for the second edition, this volume includes up-to-date information about smart city progress, as well as new terminology, standards, technologies, and practices. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and public sector IT professionals that work within smart cities, innovation management, public administration, urban technologies and urban innovation, and public local administration studies.

Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos is a full Professor in data science and e-business at the University Thessaly, Greece.

During his current mission and at his previous job positions (as an Expert Counselor at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a Special Advisor of the Mayor of Trikala, Greece and as an ICT project manager at the Information Society S.A. (Greece)) he planned and supervised several large-scale and critical projects, worth mentioning the smart city of Trikala. He serves as the Director of the Intelligent Production Systems and Smart Cities Research Institute, the Head of the Department of Business Administration and the Director of the Postgraduate Program in Agile Management at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

He is a member of various committees, a Rapporteur for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), vice chairman of the Focus on Metaverse, the head of the Smart and Sustainable cities working group for the Greek Standards, the associate editor of various journals and the editor of book collections.

He is the author of several articles published in prestigious scientific journals, book collections and international conferences. His research interests concern, among others, smart cities, digital government, data science, and strategic management.

Chap 1:Why to read this book.- Chap 2:The rise of the Smart City.- Chap 3:The Smart City in Practice.- Chap 4:The smart city market.- Chap 5:Governing a Smart City.- Chap 6:Smart Government:a new adjective to government transformation or a trick?.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.4.2026
Reihe/Serie Public Administration and Information Technology
Zusatzinfo VIII, 273 p. 128 illus., 125 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Schlagworte collaborative software • e-government • Innovation Management • Smart City • Urban Innovation • Urban technologies
ISBN-10 3-032-12852-8 / 3032128528
ISBN-13 978-3-032-12852-2 / 9783032128522
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
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